At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage data governance and ensure quality across data assets in a hybrid work environment.
- Company: Join Novartis, a leader in innovative healthcare solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health insurance, flexible working, and 25 days annual leave.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on patient lives through effective data management.
- Qualifications: Experience with Snowflake, SQL, and data governance principles required.
The predicted salary is between 74000 - 88660 £ per year.
Location: London (The Westworks), United Kingdom with Hybrid Working (you must be able to work for 12 days per month in the office).
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.
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?
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
Skills Desired: Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Business Analytics, Business Networking, Collaboration, Data Insights, Delivery Management, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Email Marketing, Market Research, Media Campaigns.
Data Management & Infrastructure Manager in London employer: Novartis
At Novartis, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. Our hybrid work model allows for flexibility while providing ample opportunities for professional growth and development in the pharmaceutical industry. With a commitment to enhancing customer experiences for healthcare professionals and patients alike, joining our team means contributing to meaningful work that makes a difference in people's lives.
