About the Role
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
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)
Role Requirements
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
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)
