Salary Range
£47,740.00 - £88,660.00
Job Description 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
Competitive salary, Short term incentive bonus, Pension scheme, Health insurance, 25 days annual leave, Flexible working arrangements, Employee recognition scheme, learning and development opportunities
Skills Desired
- Agility (Inactive)
- Analytical Thinking
- Brand Awareness
- Business Analytics
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Digital Marketing
- Marketing Strategies
- Media Campaigns
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Sales
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder Management
- Waterfall Model