Novartis
Associate Director, Data Quality Lead
$153K–$283K
East Hanover +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- East Hanover
Distant Employee - Distant Working Arrangement (DWA) (USA) - Experience
- 8+ years in data quality, including 3+ years leading teams in a regulated industry.
- Visa sponsorship
- Company will not sponsor visas for this position.
About the job
Leads enterprise data quality practices and initiatives to ensure critical data assets are trusted, governed, and fit for analytics, regulatory needs, and AI.
What you'll do
- Define data quality standards, frameworks, measurement practices, and reusable controls.
- Lead monitoring, reporting, issue triage, root-cause analysis, and remediation for critical data assets.
- Partner with governance, engineering, product teams, and business stakeholders to embed and automate quality controls.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in data quality, including 3+ years leading teams in a regulated industry.
- Strong understanding of data quality dimensions, profiling, validation, cleansing, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
- Knowledge of data governance, stewardship, critical data elements, metadata, lineage, and data product certification.
- Familiarity with data quality and observability tools, SQL, data catalogs, workflow tools, dashboards, and data engineering concepts.
Nice to have
- Pharma/life sciences experience is strongly preferred.
Pay
$152,600 - $283,400 per year (base salary); $152,600.00 - $283,400.00 (base salary)
Tools
SQL
AI focus
Supports AI-ready data initiatives by ensuring datasets are trusted, governed, and high quality, with appropriate lineage and quality thresholds.
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