Data Management & Infrastructure Manager

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Job Description Summary

Location: London (The Westworks), United Kingdom with Hybrid Working (you must be able to work for 12 days per month in the office)

Relocation Support: This role is based in London, United Kingdom. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

The Data Management & Infrastructure Manager ensures the consistent application of data governance frameworks, standards, and lifecycle controls to enable trusted, compliant, and reusable data assets. This role serves as a key coordination point between business and technical teams, supporting governance, data quality, and performance reporting. The position drives alignment across stakeholders to ensure effective data usage and compliance across functions.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

• Support implementation of layered data architecture principles, including bronze, silver, and gold Medallion layers

• Ensure data pipelines and curated datasets follow standards for quality, lineage, access control, reusability, and lifecycle management

• Support governance and documentation of Snowflake data assets, including tables, views, schemas, stages, and curated datasets

• Support documentation of data standards, business rules, and data architecture across ingestion, transformation, and aggregation processes

• Ensure alignment with global data governance frameworks and collaborate with internal and technical stakeholders

• Apply enterprise data governance standards across platforms, vendors, and use cases

• Support role-based data access controls aligned with data privacy, compliance, and governance requirements

• Manage data lifecycle governance, including tracking ingestion, transformation, usage, and archival of datasets

• Monitor data quality controls (e.g., completeness, accuracy, timeliness) and support issue resolution

• Act as a coordination and escalation point for data governance issues across stakeholders

• Maintain governance documentation, including data dictionaries, lineage, and usage guidelines

• Support reusability and scalability of datasets while preventing fragmentation across systems

• Coordinate governance-related assessments and continuous improvement initiatives

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms is essential

• Familiarity with Medallion architecture, including bronze, silver, and gold data layers

• Understanding of SQL, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, and cloud data warehouse concepts

• Pharmaceutical experience is highly desirable

• Experience documenting data flows, tables, views, stages, lineage, and data quality controls

• Bachelor’s degree in business, mathematics, statistics, analytics, engineering, or a related technical field

• Experience in data governance, data management, analytics enablement, or related roles

• Understanding of data governance concepts, including ownership, stewardship, and lifecycle management

• Experience working with enterprise data platforms or analytics ecosystems

• Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to document and manage data definitions, lineage, and governance standards

• Familiarity with compliance and governance requirements in regulated environments

• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive:

Competitive salary, Short term incentive bonus, Pension scheme, Health insurance, 25 days annual leave, Flexible working arrangements, Employee recognition scheme, learning and development opportunities

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