Summary
Work Arrangement: Hybrid Working
Location: London (The Westworks), United Kingdom
Relocation Support: This role is based in London, United Kingdom. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
The Data Management & Infrastructure Manager ensures the consistent application of data governance frameworks, standards, and lifecycle controls to enable trusted, compliant, and reusable data assets. This role serves as a key coordination point between business and technical teams, supporting governance, data quality, and performance reporting. The position drives alignment across stakeholders to ensure effective data usage and compliance across functions.
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Support documentation of data standards, business rules, and data architecture across ingestion, transformation, and aggregation processes
- Ensure alignment with global data governance frameworks and collaborate with internal and technical stakeholders
- Apply enterprise data governance standards across platforms, vendors, and use cases
- Support role-based data access controls aligned with data privacy, compliance, and governance requirements
- Manage data lifecycle governance, including tracking ingestion, transformation, usage, and archival of datasets
- Monitor data quality controls (e.g., completeness, accuracy, timeliness) and support issue resolution
- Act as a coordination and escalation point for data governance issues across stakeholders
- Maintain governance documentation, including data dictionaries, lineage, and usage guidelines
- Support reusability and scalability of datasets while preventing fragmentation across systems
- Coordinate governance-related assessments and continuous improvement initiatives
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, mathematics, statistics, analytics, engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience in data governance, data management, analytics enablement, or related roles
- Understanding of data governance concepts, including ownership, stewardship, and lifecycle management
- Experience working with enterprise data platforms or analytics ecosystems
- Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to document and manage data definitions, lineage, and governance standards
- Familiarity with compliance and governance requirements in regulated environments
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
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.
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
You’ll receive:
Competitive salary, Short term incentive bonus, Pension scheme, Health insurance, 25 days annual leave, Flexible working arrangements, Employee recognition scheme, learning and development opportunities
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)
