Remote Senior Data Engineering & Governance Lead

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.; United States; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. is seeking an Associate Director, Data Engineering, to shape enterprise data strategy, govern data products, and deliver reliable, compliant data solutions.

The role sits at the intersection of data platforms, governance, and innovation and may offer remote options with site commitments. The position emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, enforcing contracts and quality controls, and driving modern DataOps practices to accelerate data-driven decision making

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, governance, architecture, product management, or enterprise delivery.
• Experience designing, building, or governing enterprise data pipelines, data products, or data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering, pipeline reliability, and production controls.
• Design and oversee scalable, governed data pipelines supporting critical business and data domains.
• Lead the enterprise data contract lifecycle, including review, approval, governance, and enforcement.
• Implement data observability capabilities across monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels, and operational alerting.
• Establish controls that ensure data elements remain traceable, validated, and protected.
• Develop safeguards that prevent incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant data from reaching downstream systems.
• Partner with data modeling teams to align engineering with enterprise data models.
• Collaborate across governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams to enable compliant data delivery.
• Drive automation for deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage generation, testing, and reporting.
• Monitor operational performance and lead resolution of pipeline, contract, and data reliability issues.

Skills

Data engineering

Data governance

Data architecture

Data product management

Enterprise data platform delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field

Tools

Data contracts

Schema validation

Data pipeline monitoring

Data observability

Data product certification

Job description

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. is seeking an Associate Director, Data Engineering, to shape enterprise data strategy, govern data products, and deliver reliable, compliant data solutions.

The role sits at the intersection of data platforms, governance, and innovation and may offer remote options with site commitments. The position emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, enforcing contracts and quality controls, and driving modern DataOps practices to accelerate data-driven decision making