Job Description Summary
Job Title: Associate Director - Data Architect (Development IT)
LI-Hybrid
Location: Hyderabad, India
Relocation Support: Yes

Imagine shaping the data foundation that accelerates the development of life-changing medicines. As the Associate Director - Data Architect (Development IT), you will play a pivotal role in driving enterprise-wide data architecture and data management strategies across Drug Development. Working at the intersection of business, data, and technology, you will design scalable, compliant, and AI-ready data solutions that empower scientific innovation, improve data quality, and enable critical decision-making across Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Technical Research & Development, and Patient Safety. This is a unique prospect to influence how data is structured, governed, and leveraged across Novartis, helping to transform the future of drug development through modern data architecture and advanced analytics.

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Key Responsibilities




Drive adoption of enterprise data architecture and data management standards across Drug Development.
Design and maintain conceptual and logical data models supporting critical business processes.
Define taxonomies, semantic relationships, and data standards to enable trusted, consistent data.
Architect scalable data flows and integration patterns aligned with enterprise technology strategies.
Lead data architecture reviews and provide guidance on data-related initiatives and solutions.
Establish reusable data products with embedded governance, metadata, lineage, and quality controls.
Collaborate with business, architecture, engineering, and governance teams to achieve strategic outcomes.
Provide architectural leadership across cloud data platforms, Lakehouse environments, and integration services.
Evaluate emerging technologies and innovative approaches to strengthen data management and AI readiness.
Influence senior stakeholders to advance the Development data archite

📌 Assoc. Dir. DDIT DEV Data Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad