Novartis
Oncology Therapeutics · Neurology & CNS Therapeutics

Novartis tech stack

Novartis builds mostly with Python, JavaScript, Node JS, SQL. Its stack also includes GCP, Power BI, Snowflake, Pandas. Python is named in 131 of the 811 job postings Novartis published in the last 12 months (16%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Novartis, updated Nov 10, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 10, 2026
Technologies in use
247
Postings analysed
811
Open now
327
Modernity
77 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Novartis use?

Python is named in 16% of job postings at Novartis, followed by JavaScript (14%), Node JS (13%), SQL (9%).

Python 131 16% required in 74% · 64 open now · since May 2026
JavaScript 117 14% required in 32% · 36 open now · since Apr 2026
Node JS 108 13% required in 31% · 34 open now · since Apr 2026
SQL 71 9% required in 62% · 32 open now · since Jun 2026
TypeScript 6 1% required in 83% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
SAS 5 1% required in 80% · since Aug 2026
Apex 5 1% required in 60% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
Java 4 <1% required in 75% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
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MATLAB4
PHP4
Assembly3
C++3
C#2
PowerShell2
Perl1
Ruby1
Kotlin1
Visual Basic1

What frameworks and libraries does Novartis use?

Pandas is named in 3% of job postings at Novartis, followed by PyTorch (2%), LangGraph (1%), LangChain (1%).

Pandas 27 3% required in 26% · 19 open now · since Jun 2026
PyTorch 15 2% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Jun 2026
LangGraph 9 1% required in 44% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
LangChain 9 1% required in 22% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
React.js 6 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
CrewAI 4 <1% required in 75% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Apache TVM 3 <1% required in 100% · since Oct 2026
JAX 3 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
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AWS Strands Agents3
TensorFlow3
Django REST Framework2
FastAPI2
Feast2
Scikit-learn2
Django2
LlamaIndex2
Playwright2
Selenium2
Spring Boot2
pgvector2
Angular1
AutoGen1
Cohere SDK1
Hibernate1
Keras1
OpenAI Agents SDK1
OpenCV1
scikit-image1
Cypress1
Jetpack Compose1
OpenTelemetry1
Svelte1
ViewModel1

What databases does Novartis use?

Snowflake is named in 4% of job postings at Novartis, followed by Salesforce Data Cloud (1%), Google BigQuery (<1%), MS SQL (<1%).

Snowflake 35 4% required in 83% · 16 open now · since Jun 2026
Salesforce Data Cloud 5 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
Google BigQuery 4 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
MS SQL 3 <1% required in 33% · since Jun 2026
Delta Lake 2 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
DynamoDB 2 <1% required in 50% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
OpenSearch 2 <1% required in 50% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
PostgreSQL 2 <1% optional · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
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Amazon Neptune1
SAP HANA1

What cloud and platforms does Novartis use?

GCP is named in 6% of job postings at Novartis, followed by Power BI (6%), AWS (4%), Azure (3%).

GCP 51 6% required in 84% · 16 open now · since Apr 2026
Power BI 47 6% required in 79% · 16 open now · since Jul 2026
AWS 32 4% required in 84% · 20 open now · since Jun 2026
Azure 27 3% required in 74% · 15 open now · since May 2026
Databricks 17 2% required in 88% · 12 open now · since Jul 2026
Tableau 12 1% required in 92% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
Collibra 11 1% required in 82% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
OpenAI 10 1% required in 80% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
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Kubernetes10
Linux9
Spark9
Copilot Studio9
SIEM8
AWS Bedrock7
AWS Bedrock AgentCore7
Microsoft Sentinel7
GitHub6
Agentforce5
Unix5
Microsoft Defender5
Alation4
Amazon SageMaker4
Scale AI4
AWS Lambda4
Active Directory3
Azure DevOps3
Looker3
Microsoft Entra ID3
API Gateway3
AWS Step Functions3
Windows3
Anthropic2
Cortex XDR2
Cortex XSOAR2
GitHub Actions2
Hugging Face2
Prefect2
Splunk2
Amazon CloudWatch2
Amazon ECS2

And 17 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Novartis use?

Copilot is named in 3% of job postings at Novartis, followed by Microsoft Excel (3%), Veeva (2%), Model Context Protocol (2%).

Copilot 26 3% required in 69% · 12 open now · since Jun 2026
Microsoft Excel 25 3% required in 76% · 11 open now · since Jul 2026
Veeva 20 2% required in 90% · 15 open now · since Dec 2025
Model Context Protocol 16 2% required in 81% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
Alteryx 15 2% required in 67% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
Git 12 1% required in 67% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
Mandiant capa 11 1% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
LIMS 8 1% required in 88% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
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Matter7
pySpark7
Terraform7
Rest API6
GraphPad Prism5
AgentOps4
SLURM4
JMP4
Adobe Photoshop4
Bicep4
Drupal4
Semantic Kernel4
InfiniBand3
AutoCAD3
Ansible2
CloudFormation2
dbt2
Claude Code2
A2A2
Prometheus2
SolidWorks2
BloodHound1
CMake1
Chef1
Cobalt Strike1
Cortex1
DICOM1
Docker1
MQTT1
Wireshark1
Adobe InDesign1

What AI and ML technologies does Novartis use?

LLM is named in 3% of job postings at Novartis, followed by Claude (1%), ChatGPT (<1%), Gemini (<1%).

LLM 24 3% required in 83% · 10 open now · since May 2026
Claude 9 1% required in 89% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
ChatGPT 4 <1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Jul 2026
Gemini 4 <1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Oct 2026
BERT 1 <1% required in 100% · since Aug 2026
CLIP 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Jul 2026

Which engineering practices does Novartis ask for?

Machine Learning is named in 27% of job postings at Novartis, followed by GMP (17%), CAPA (11%), AI Agents (10%).

Machine Learning 221 27% required in 69% · 79 open now · since May 2026
GMP 141 17% required in 87% · 78 open now · since Jan 2026
CAPA 91 11% required in 98% · 40 open now · since Jun 2026
AI Agents 83 10% required in 92% · 41 open now · since May 2026
Time Series 75 9% required in 43% · 39 open now · since Jun 2026
Cell Culture 34 4% required in 68% · 15 open now · since Jul 2026
CI/CD 32 4% required in 94% · 18 open now · since Jul 2026
NLP 30 4% required in 43% · 21 open now · since Aug 2026
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Design of Experiments29
RAG27
Good Clinical Practice27
Chromatography24
Platform Engineering23
Statistical Process Control20
Multimodal AI19
GLP18
Master Data Management16
Mass Spectrometry16
Flow Cytometry15
21 CFR Part 1114
Knowledge Graph14
Computer Vision14
ETL/ELT13
ELISA11
Incident Management11
Agentic Workflows10
LLM Guardrails10
PCR10
LLMOps8
Physical AI8
Western Blot8
HPLC8
IAM8
Human-in-the-Loop7
Self-Supervised Learning7
Anomaly Detection6
Fine-tuning6
HPC6
Multi-Agent Systems6
Digital Twin6

And 44 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Novartis team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Marketing

110 postings
JavaScript31
Node JS31

Industrial Engineering

97 postings
Python8
SQL6
Mandiant capa5
Power BI4
Tableau4
JMP3

Science & Research

92 postings
GCP8
Python8
Matter4
GraphPad Prism3
JavaScript2
LIMS2

AI/ML

79 postings
Python14
PyTorch8
AWS7
LLM6
Model Context Protocol6
SQL5

Leadership

77 postings
Python14
Snowflake7
SQL6
AWS5
Collibra5
Databricks5

Operations

47 postings
Power BI7
GCP5
Claude2
Copilot2
Mandiant capa2
Microsoft Excel2

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How much does Novartis pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Novartis postings with stated pay: $183k across 482 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python69$192k+5%
SQL42$192k+5%
GCP29$188k+2%
Pandas20$192k+5%
Snowflake19$270k+48%
Power BI17$173k−6%
LLM15$209k+14%
PyTorch11$192k+5%
AWS11$179k−3%
Databricks10$211k+15%

How is the Novartis stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
Microsoft FabricNov 2026
Cortex XDRNov 2026
Cortex XSOARNov 2026
GitHub ActionsNov 2026
Delta LakeOct 2026
Spring BootOct 2026
Antibody EngineeringOct 2026
SplunkOct 2026
Rising
GMP8% → 20%
CAPA7% → 13%
AI Agents6% → 12%
GCP2% → 7%
CI/CD1% → 5%
AWS1% → 5%
NLP1% → 5%
Power BI4% → 7%
Falling
Machine Learning50% → 21%
JavaScript22% → 12%
Node JS20% → 11%

How modern is the Novartis stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 77/100

Novartis scores 77 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 6; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the Novartis stack in its industry?

Share of the 570 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python34%
JavaScript12%
Node JS6%
SQL32%
GCP41%
Power BI27%
Snowflake12%
AWS21%
Azure22%
Pandas5%

What sets Novartis apart

Collibra4%
AWS Bedrock AgentCore3%
Microsoft Sentinel1%
Agentforce4%
Microsoft Defender3%
Salesforce Data Cloud3%
Alation2%
CrewAI3%
Gemini3%
Google BigQuery4%

Questions about the Novartis tech stack

What programming languages does Novartis use?

The languages named in Novartis job postings are Python (16%), JavaScript (14%), Node JS (13%), SQL (9%), TypeScript (1%), as a share of the 811 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Novartis use Pandas?

Yes. Pandas is named in 27 of 811 job postings (3%) and required in 7 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Novartis use?

The cloud and platforms named in Novartis job postings are GCP (51), Power BI (47), AWS (32) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Marketing job at Novartis?

Marketing postings at Novartis most often require JavaScript (31), Node JS (31), out of 110 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Novartis tech stack changing?

Yes. Microsoft Fabric, Cortex XDR, Cortex XSOAR, GitHub Actions first appeared in Novartis job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Novartis tech stack?

Novartis scores 77 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 6; legacy ones: 1.

How does Alion know the Novartis tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Novartis publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 811 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 10, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Novartis tech stack: 247 technologies from 811 job postings", as of Nov 10, 2026. https://alion.io/company/novartis/technologies

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