REQ-10089693
out 14, 2026
India

Summary

Role Type: Hybrid working, #LI-Hybrid
Primary Location: Hyderabad, India
Other Location: Mumbai, India
Relocation Support: Yes

What if your technical leadership could transform how clinical trial risks are detected and managed across an entire portfolio? As Senior Principal Solution Architect, Clinical Data Analytics & Technology ( RBQM Data Analyst), you will design and deliver scalable central monitoring analytics and technology solutions that strengthen clinical data quality, trial oversight, and operational efficiency. Combining hands-on technical expertise with portfolio leadership, you will shape monitoring platforms, risk indicators, statistical models, automation, and advanced analytics that strengthen data quality, improve operational efficiency, and enable proactive decision-making across Clinical Portfolio.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead Central Monitoring platform configuration across an assigned portfolio of clinical studies.
  • Design and maintain Key Risk Indicators, Quality Tolerance Limits, risk signals, and statistical monitoring models. Develop and support maintenance of KRIs, QTL library
  • Draft Central monitoring platform specification and refer clinical protocol, CRF, Study ALS and vendor data transfer specification.
  • Deliver end-to-end platform configuration, validation, user acceptance testing, and study go-live activities.
  • Partner with Clinical, Central monitoring, data management, biostatistics and technology teams to deliver effective analytics strategies.
  • Resolve complex data integration, transformation, visualisation, platform, and risk-signal generation issues.
  • Advance automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistical approaches to improve risk detection. Simply central monitoring platform development
  • Provide technical guidance, training, and knowledge sharing to members within team
  • Driving AI, automation and future-state analytics strategy
  • Managing relationships with vendors and key stakeholders
  • Defining success measures and driving key objectives within team
  • Scaling the capability across the portfolio

Essential Requirements

  • More than 12-14 years of extensive relevant experience in pharmaceutical development, clinical research, data analytics, or healthcare technology.
  • Strong experience delivering Risk-Based Quality Management and Central Monitoring solutions across clinical trial portfolios.
  • Hands-on expertise configuring Central Monitoring platforms, analytics modules, dashboards, and reporting solutions.
  • Demonstrated experience developing Key Risk Indicators, Quality Tolerance Limits, risk signals, and statistical monitoring models.
  • Ability to translate complex KRIs and QTL requirements and support such output development in platform
  • Strong knowledge of clinical data integration, transformation, visualisation, validation, and analytical troubleshooting.
  • Strong knowledge of International Council for Harmonization E6(R3), risk-based monitoring principles, and clinical trial quality management.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to guide teams in a global matrix environment.
  • Interpret protocols, monitoring plans, quality plans, critical data, endpoints, CtQ factors, risks, and study-specific needs
  • Understanding ingestion, harmonization, mapping, transformation and data from different sources like EDC, CTMS, IRT/IWRS, laboratory and other third-party data
  • Use SAS, SQL, R, Python or equivalent languages for data manipulation, analytics, automation, and troubleshooting
  • Manage setup, go-live, refreshes, change requests, protocol amendments, troubleshooting, and study closeout/archival activities
  • Deliver assigned work on time and to first time-right quality standards.

Desirable Requirements

  • Experience implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, or advanced statistical monitoring solutions.
  • Advanced knowledge of unsupervised statistical testing and approaches for improving signal quality and reducing false positives.
  • Experience leading technical delivery across a portfolio of global clinical studies.
  • Experience providing technical coaching, training, and guidance to junior colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders

Why Novartis

Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture


Benefits and Rewards

Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)

Development
Development
India
Hyderabad (Office)
Mumbai (Office), India
Research & Development
Full time
Regular
No

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REQ-10089693

Principal Solution Architect, Clinical Data Analytics & Technology

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