Location – Hyderabad 
  
About the Role:  

Data steward needs to support multiple data centric activities such as data engineering, data quality, data analytics other data management activities by working closely with business, data strategy teams and IT.  Work under the guidance of Data Manager in agile team to build the data solutions using approved tech stack and should be able to support the ongoing engagements with Novartis business teams.   

Key Responsibilities:  

• Creating and maintaining the sanity of the Master Data (e.g., Customer, Products etc.)  

• Supporting consolidation/ harmonization of data (master and transactional data). Support setting up business rules for creating and maintaining master data  

• Querying, analyzing, and profiling various datasets  

• Supporting data migration activities by validating business data and maintaining data pipelines   

• Ensure the data quality and process governance.  

• Help build & implement data quality checks and KPI reporting. Closely work along with Business partner & liaising with IT for resolving issues  

• Ensuring processes documentation in form of SOP’s, QC list & Process flows diagrams.  

Essential Requirements:  

• Education: Bachelors/ master's in computer sciences/ IT or other quantitative sciences   

• 4-6 years’ experience in a Global company as data steward, data analyst, data engineer or business analyst  

• Bring deep business understanding of pharmaceutical industry and data standards with domain experience in at least one of the following areas – a) Pharma R&D, b) Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain and c) Marketing and Sales. Experience in working in Pharma / Life Science industry strongly preferred  

• Hands-on experience in Master Data Management (MDM), Data Stewardship and Data Quality    

• Hands-on experience of ETL and programming/scripting skills (SQL, Alteryx, Databricks & Dataiku) for data preparation and analysis, programming/scripting skills (Python) for data preparation and analysis   

• Understanding of data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical) using different data modeling methodologies   

• Experience on data wrangling including Ingestion, Unification, Anonymization, Search, Master & Meta Data Management and Governance.      

• Foundational understanding of semantic web principles, big data ecosystem, knowledge of AWS, AZURE Stack and basics of NLP would be an advantage   

• Act as a data steward supporting multiple use cases, digital lighthouse projects as part of DLC teams collaborating closely with business, data strategy teams and IT   

• Demonstrate superior data stewardship skills along with strong business understanding to and thereby help prepare data for the FAIRification process and turn Novartis data sets into Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable assets.     

Desirable requirements:   

• Proficient with MS office (especially MS Excel). Adept with Agile ways of working. Excellent communication and presentation skills with business stakeholder engagement experience  

• Experience in gathering and documenting business requirements  

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.

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message