The Role
Leads the hands-on design, development, and optimization of enterprise data platforms and AI-ready solutions. Builds scalable batch, streaming, CDC, and event-driven pipelines using AWS, Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, Python, and SQL. Develops RAG, vector retrieval, and agentic AI capabilities while ensuring security, governance, reliability, observability, automation, and performance. Leads integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, data quality, mentoring, stakeholder management, and end-to-end ownership of data products.
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Job Description Summary
This role leads the design and delivery of enterprise data platforms and AI-ready solutions using AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, and Python. It is a highly hands-on technical position focused on building scalable data pipelines, integrations, data products, RAG and agentic AI capabilities, while ensuring strong governance, security, reliability, automation, and performance
Job Description
Major Accountabilities
- Design, build, and optimize scalable batch, streaming, CDC, and event-driven data pipelines using modern data engineering best practices and production-grade Python and SQL.
- Architect secure, resilient, high-performance data platforms and translate business and technical requirements into scalable cloud-based solutions.
- Lead hands-on development and optimization of Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse solutions, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Design and implement Snowflake data engineering solutions, including ingestion, transformation, governance, orchestration, and secure data consumption patterns.
- Engineer enterprise data platforms on AWS, leveraging cloud-native services to deliver secure, automated, observable, and highly available data solutions.
- Develop reusable integration frameworks, APIs, CDC processes, and connectivity patterns across enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, governance tools, ERP, and CRM systems.
- Build AI-ready data foundations, including RAG pipelines, vector retrieval, context engineering, and agentic workflows, enabling enterprise AI and GenAI use cases.
- Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security-by-design, observability, governance, mentoring, and end-to-end ownership of data products and platform capabilities.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering with proven delivery of large-scale production data platforms.
- Advanced hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, CDC, batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong experience with Apache Spark (PySpark), distributed data processing, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Proven hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, and Snowflake in enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud services, cloud-native data architectures, security, observability, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, governance, data quality, security controls, and operational support practices.
- Practical exposure to Generative AI technologies, including RAG architectures, embeddings, vector search, LLM integration, context engineering, and agentic workflows.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, SaaS integrations, metadata management, lineage, data governance, and access control frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and delivery leadership skills with a highly hands-on engineering mindset.
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
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
Databricks Platform, Snowflake (Platform)Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering with delivery of large-scale production data platforms.
- Advanced hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, CDC, batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong experience with Apache Spark, including PySpark, distributed data processing, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, and Snowflake in enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud services, cloud-native data architectures, security, observability, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, governance, data quality, security controls, and operational support practices.
- Practical exposure to generative AI technologies, including RAG architectures, embeddings, vector search, LLM integration, context engineering, and agentic workflows.
- Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, SaaS integrations, metadata management, lineage, data governance, and access control frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and delivery leadership skills.
Novartis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novartis and has not been reviewed or approved by Novartis.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay and benefits are described as a strong overall package, supported by medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside FSAs/HSAs and disability and life coverage. Mental-health support is reinforced through an employee assistance program with psychological support and a network of mental health first aiders.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, with an automatic company contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching in the 401(k). Additional retirement funding is described through an age-based defined contribution program and access to an employee share purchase plan discount.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are framed as robust, including a global minimum of paid parental leave for new parents following birth or adoption. Added supports include domestic partner coverage, dependent-care resources, and benefits such as adoption assistance and child/elder care options.
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The Company
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
