Data Steward

Job Description Summary

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Data Steward with expertise in any of the ETL tools, Databricks, Snowflake SQL, and PySpark to join our innovative team.
As a Data Steward, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and building robust data infrastructure.
You will collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure the efficient and reliable flow of data across the organization.

 

Job Description

Location – Hyderabad #LI Hybrid  
 
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 

 

 

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. 

Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network. 

 

Skills Desired

Advertising Campaigns, Alteryx, Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Business Networking, Curiosity, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing Plans, Marketing Strategy, Media Campaigns, Process Documentation, Strategic Marketing