# Associate Director, Cloud Data Platform Architecture

Salary Range: €63,800.00 - €118,400.00Job Description Summary Location: Barcelona, SpainRelocation Support: This role is based in Barcelona, Spain. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this position. Please only apply if the location is accessible to you. About the role As Associate Director, Cloud Data Platform Architecture, you will define the technology strategy and architecture for cloud data platforms supporting the Novartis Drug Development portfolio. You will guide the delivery of secure, compliant, scalable and reusable platform capabilities supporting a wide range of data and AI use cases. A key focus will be evolving an established, multi-tenant cloud data mesh platform already operating in production. You will lead the architecture of new AI capabilities and enhancements to existing capabilities, improving the platform's self-service experience while maintaining robust data governance, GxP compliance and protection of highly sensitive data. You will bring deep technical expertise in cloud data platforms and work closely with internal teams and external partners to shape architecture, technology strategy and delivery direction. Job Description Key responsibi

- **Id**: 4025212
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/novartis-associate-director-cloud-data-platform-architecture>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Barcelona, Spain, Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: ES, IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:39:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:39:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7686
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Oncology Therapeutics, Neurology & CNS Therapeutics, Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 5824
- **Name**: Novartis
- **Domain**: novartis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/novartis>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 77
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.623
- **Repost share**: 0.026
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 63800
- **Max**: 118400
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 132683

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Collibra** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **NLP** — Optional: yes
- **Pandas** — Optional: yes
- **Time Series** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T16:39:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:58:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 132683
- **Is top pay**: no

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