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 critical data element quality.
- Develop safeguards that prevent incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant data from reaching downstream systems.
- Partner with data modeling teams to align engineering implementation with enterprise data models.
- 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 resolve 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.
- 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, 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 with regulated, privacy-sensitive, or compliance-driven data environments is desirable.
Benefits
- Performance-based cash incentive and potential eligibility for annual equity awards.
- Health, life, and disability benefits, plus a 401(k) with company contribution and match.
- Vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leave benefits.
- Preferred location is East Hanover, New Jersey; remote work may be possible subject to legal-entity restrictions.
- No relocation support is provided; remote employees cover home-office expenses and travel or lodging for periodic East Hanover meetings.
- The company will not sponsor visas for this position.
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