21 days ago
East Hanover, NJ, USA or Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$153k - $283k/yr
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 data contract lifecycle, including review, approval, governance, and enforcement.
- Implement data observability for monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels, and operational alerting.
- Establish controls for traceability, validation, protection, and compliance of critical data elements.
- Develop safeguards preventing incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant data from reaching downstream systems.
- Align engineering implementation with approved enterprise data models in partnership with data modeling teams.
- Collaborate with governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams on compliant data delivery.
- Automate deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage generation, testing, and reporting.
- Monitor operational performance and lead resolution of pipeline, contract, and data reliability issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, data governance, data architecture, data product management, or enterprise data platform delivery.
- Experience designing, building, or governing enterprise data pipelines, data products, data platforms, or data integration capabilities.
- Direct experience with data contracts, schema validation, data pipeline monitoring, data observability, or data product certification.
- Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple data producers, consumers, vendors, platforms, and governance stakeholders.
- Advanced degree or relevant cloud, data engineering, data management, or architecture certification is desirable.
- Experience supporting regulated, privacy-sensitive, or compliance-driven data environments is desirable.
Benefits
- Performance-based cash incentive and potential eligibility for annual equity awards depending on role level.
- Health, life, and disability benefits, plus a 401(k) with company contribution and match for eligible US-based employees.
- Vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leave benefits.
- Preferred work location is East Hanover, New Jersey; remote work may be possible with legal-entity restrictions.
- No relocation support is provided; remote employees are responsible for home-office expenses and travel or lodging to the East Hanover site for periodic meetings.
- Working hours and domestic or international travel expectations will be determined by the hiring manager.
Categories
Data Engineering
About Novartis
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki