Associate Director, Data Engineering Lead
Novartis
August 24, 2026
Remote friendly (East Hanover, NJ)
United States
IT
About the Role
Associate Director, Data Engineering
Key Responsibilities
- Define and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering, pipeline reliability, and production controls.
- Design and oversee scalable, governed data pipelines for critical business/data domains.
- Lead the enterprise data contract lifecycle (review, approval, governance, enforcement).
- Implement data observability (monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels, operational alerting).
- Establish controls to ensure critical data elements are traceable, validated, and protected.
- Develop safeguards to prevent incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant data reaching downstream systems.
- Partner with data modeling teams to align implementation with approved enterprise data models.
- Collaborate with governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams to enable compliant data delivery.
- Drive automation for deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage generation, testing, and reporting.
- Monitor operational performance and resolve pipeline, contract, and data reliability issues.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- 5+ years’ experience in data engineering/governance/architecture or enterprise data platform delivery.
- Experience designing/building/governing enterprise data pipelines/products/platforms or integrations.
- Direct experience with data contracts, schema validation, pipeline monitoring, data observability, or data product certification.
- Experience in complex enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders.
Desirable Requirements
- Advanced degree and/or relevant cloud/data engineering/architecture certification.
- Experience in regulated, privacy-sensitive, or compliance-driven data environments.
Benefits and Rewards
- Performance-based cash incentive; potential eligibility for annual equity awards (role level dependent).
- US-based eligible employees: health/life/disability benefits, 401(k) with company contribution and match, and paid time off (vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves).
Associate Director, Data Engineering
Key Responsibilities
- Define and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering, pipeline reliability, and production controls.
- Design and oversee scalable, governed data pipelines for critical business/data domains.
- Lead the enterprise data contract lifecycle (review, approval, governance, enforcement).
- Implement data observability (monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels, operational alerting).
- Establish controls to ensure critical data elements are traceable, validated, and protected.
- Develop safeguards to prevent incomplete, inaccurate, or non-compliant data reaching downstream systems.
- Partner with data modeling teams to align implementation with approved enterprise data models.
- Collaborate with governance, privacy, architecture, and platform teams to enable compliant data delivery.
- Drive automation for deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage generation, testing, and reporting.
- Monitor operational performance and resolve pipeline, contract, and data reliability issues.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- 5+ years’ experience in data engineering/governance/architecture or enterprise data platform delivery.
- Experience designing/building/governing enterprise data pipelines/products/platforms or integrations.
- Direct experience with data contracts, schema validation, pipeline monitoring, data observability, or data product certification.
- Experience in complex enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders.
Desirable Requirements
- Advanced degree and/or relevant cloud/data engineering/architecture certification.
- Experience in regulated, privacy-sensitive, or compliance-driven data environments.
Benefits and Rewards
- Performance-based cash incentive; potential eligibility for annual equity awards (role level dependent).
- US-based eligible employees: health/life/disability benefits, 401(k) with company contribution and match, and paid time off (vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves).