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Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote, all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to specific East Hanover, New Jersey site for periodic live meetings will be at the employee’s expense. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager.\nReady to build the foundation that powers trusted, AI-ready data at scale? As Associate Director, Data Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how enterprise data is engineered, governed, and delivered across Novartis. Working at the intersection of data platforms, governance, and innovation, you will establish the standards, controls, and engineering capabilities that enable reliable, compliant, and high-quality data products. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data strategy, drive modern DataOps practices, and help accelerate data-driven decision making that ultimately supports better outcomes for patients worldwide.\nJob Description\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering, pipeline reliability, and production controls.\n\nDesign and oversee scalable, governed data pipelines supporting critical business and data domains.\n\nLead the enterprise data contract lifecycle, including review, approval, governance, and enforcement.\n\nImplement data observability capabilities across monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels, and operational alerting.\n\nEstablish controls that ensure critical data elements remain traceable, validated, and protected.\n\nDevelop safeguards that prevent incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant data from reaching downstream systems.\n\nPartner with data modeling teams to align engineering implementation with approved enterprise data models.\n\nCollaborate across governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams to enable compliant data delivery.\n\nDrive automation for deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage generation, testing, and reporting.\n\nMonitor operational performance and lead resolution of pipeline, contract, and data reliability issues.\n\nEssential Requirements\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.\n\n5+ years of experience in data engineering, data governance, data architecture, data product management, or enterprise data platform delivery.\n\nExperience designing, building, or governing enterprise data pipelines, data products, data platforms, or data integration capabilities.\n\nDirect experience with data contracts, schema validation, data pipeline monitoring, data observability, or data product certification.\n\nExperience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple data producers, consumers, vendors, platforms, and governance stakeholders.\n\nDesirable Requirements\nAdvanced degree or relevant cloud, data engineering, data management, or architecture certification.\n\nExperience supporting regulated, privacy-sensitive, or compliance-driven data environments.\n\nThe salary for this position is expected to range between $152,600 - $283,400 per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.\nYour compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.\nTo learn more about the culture, rewards and benefits we offer our people click here.\nEEO Statement:\nThe Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. 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