Job Description

About the role

Role Title: Senior Principal Data Architect, Standards & Flow
Location: Hyderabad

Novartis Biomedical Research (BR) is the global pharmaceutical research organization of Novartis. With approximately 5,400 scientists and physicians around the world, our research is focused on discovering innovative new drugs that will change the practice of medicine. We have an open and entrepreneurial culture, encouraging collaboration to make effective therapies.
At BR, our mission is to discover innovative medicines that treat disease and human health. To do that, our scientists need cutting-edge, state-of-the-art data and computing systems and a high degree of data fluency.

About the department
With BR Informatics, BR is making a strategic investment into informatics capabilities and is positioning itself to deliver the systems, data and services that are critical to the future of drug discovery.
We believe that data is one of the key differentiation factors for the success of a research organization and effective data management is a crucial component to thrive in the digital age.
Come join our Research Informatics team in one of the most distinguished Pharma research organizations in the world. Become part of our newly established Data Ingestion team and contribute to shaping a world-class data ingestion capability.

Purpose of the role
As a Senior Principal Data Architect, Standards & Flow, you will contribute to modelling BR\'s conceptual data and business architecture and ensure its alignment with data ingestion business processes. In this context you will model BR\'s scientific entities required for successful data analysis and machine learning development using semantic concepts. You will also ensure that the flow of ingested data adheres to our data integration standards thereby playing a crucial role in ensuring the FAIRness of external data assets BR acquires.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributing to further developing, maintaining, and governing BR\'s data architecture
• Working closely with data scientists and with colleagues from data management and from data engineering to ensure the external data ingestion business process and its related data architecture are aligned and implemented adhering to our data and technical standards
• Evangelizing the principles of data-centricity across stakeholders and work closely with scientists to elevate their data into BR\'s information model

Role Requirements

Essential Requirements:

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor university degree or higher

Experience

• Excellent understanding of life science data domains
• 10+ Yrs Experience in data management disciplines and a good understanding of their core requirements and challenges
• Ability to translate real world entities into conceptual data objects using semantic principles and tools
• Familiarity with business concepts and processes used in a dynamic, fast changing life science environment.
• Ideally a certification or demonstrated experience in BPMN and corresponding modelling practices using tools like ADONIS and ADOIT
• In addition, we are looking for someone who has an independent, fast learning, team player attitude, someone who has a track record of successful collaborations with scientific and informatics communities. We envision for this role someone who can express the BR data architecture guidelines verbally and in writing, and who can listen to external scientific and technical partners and to translate their language into our data modelling language.

Please carefully note that this role does not entail physical database modelling, nor does it require experience with data modelling tools, like ERWIN. Hence, we will reject applications accordingly.

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people\'s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You\'ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

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.
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Functional Area

Research & Development

Division

Global Drug Development

Business Unit

MGMT OFFICE GDD

Employment Type

Regular

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No

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