Data Engineering Lead

GJFA Global Benchmark 4

ROLE PROFILE
Job Purpose
The Digital Finance Hub in Barcelona is the first centre in Novartis focusing on financial problems using Data Sci -
ence and AI. We’re looking for a lead data engineer eager to make an impact leading the design, development and
maintenance of our data lake, mainly consumed by Predictive Finance Solutions.
They will serve as a lead resource for developing and delivering high-performance reporting and analytical solutions.
Hence, play a key role in planning and executing projects, which solve critical business issues. Responsible for the on -
going operations, maintenance, performance and availability of Finance Data, and will ensure the timely delivery of
services to the commercial businesses to support financial planning and decision-making.

Major Accountabilities

Leading Role:
 Plays a lead role managing key projects in an Artificial Intelligence Hub. Ensures timely implementations of pro -
jects.
 Significantly contribute and drive multi-year, large-scale product roadmaps for key finance processes on global
& headquarter core applications with significant impact on Novartis financial results.
 Responsible for the maintenance, performance and availability of the Predictive Digital Finance Data.
 Provides support to the Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Product Owners and Business Owners as required.
 Assist IT and Business Managers on developing and executing a strategic agenda to provide analytical & man -
agement reporting support for key stakeholders in implementing programs that will improve operational controls,
efficiency, and the client experience.

Leading Technically:
 Ensure digital technology impact analysis is provided to business.
 Manage the design of system solutions in alignment with design and architectural standards, while meeting qual-
ity, performance, security and business requirements.
 Research software applications and provides recommendations for the future developments (i.e. new technolo -
gical development).
 Technical architect and individual contributor with the ability to influence a team of Sr Analysts and medium to
large sized projects (Global scope).

Leading Operations:
 Establishes scalable, efficient, automated solutions for large scale data analyses, model development, model val-
idation and model implementation. Ensure the introduction of new / modified services happens in a planned, con -
trolled and timely manner to minimize disruption and maximize benefit.
 Initiate and drive projects from conception to completion with minimal guidance. Be ultimately accountable for
the full lifecycle of the solution.
 Communicate complex data or algorithms into simple conclusions that will empower leadership to drive action
based on the insights you derive.
 Define and document Predictive Digital Finance Data Solutions, including close interaction with multiple service
providers in Global infrastructure organization (GIS).
 Responsible for the data structures within the Predictive Digital Finance Data. This includes solution design,
development, and maintenance.
 Develops and tests extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) processes from different data sources.
 Responsible for efficient Master data-management processes.
 Ensure the quality delivery of services to the commercial businesses.
 Ensures compliance and information security as per IGM guidelines.
 Supports monthly or daily data loads of the data warehouse with the latest available data from different geo -
graphies and different divisions.
 Develops monthly data feeds to Global systems.

People Management:
 Collaborate in multi-functional teams to evaluate business activities, and then develop innovative and effective
approaches to tackle team’s analytics problems and communicate results and methodologies.
 Manage project teams in different locations.
 Provide technical guidance and be a mentor to new joiners.

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 Key Performance Indicators
 Successful completion of Predictive Digital Finance Data projects.
 Well-structured and effective data management.
 Data quality and timely availability.
 Data consistency and integrity.
 Productivity improvements and successful enhancements to key data processes.
 Mentees’ development
 Added Business Value
 Solution quality (limited number of issues, response time), flexibility and scalability, simpleness and
Maintenance effort.

Job Dimensions
Number of associates: None

Financial responsibility: None

Impact on the High – key role planning and developing Digital and Predictive Finance Data
Solutions. This will be the base for analysis for the Data Scientists.
organisation:
Education :  Minimum: Computer Science or other related Bachelor at least
Languages:  English (fluent), further languages (Spanish mainly) are an asset.
Experience:

 Minimum of 5 years of experience in Data Engineering and Data Warehousing solutions and efforts.
 Minimum of 3 years leading Data Engineering / Data base development teams.
 Preferable experience across diverse Commercial / Finance / MIS / IT roles.
 Proven history of delivering timely, high quality, senior manager-level reporting and analysis from diverse,
complex data sources
 Experience with Agile Methodologies (Scrum mainly)
 Expertise in managing the Snowflake platform (administration, functionality, cost management, and architec-
ture)
 Expertise in metadata management best practices and metadata strategies within data integration pipelines
 Advanced data modelling experience, table design and mapping business needs to data structures
 Expert level skill in modelling, managing, scaling and performance tuning high-volume transactional database
 Solid understanding of concepts of cloud computing; AWS Architecture preferred
 Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to communicate clearly and concisely in
a variety of settings and styles; is effective in a variety of formal presentation and meeting settings
 Expert experience as a data integration developer; designing, building, and optimizing data integration archi-
tectures across batch, near real-time, and streaming integration requirements
 Expert experience with cloud-based Data Warehouse and Data Lake environments
 Experience with Snowflake administration, security, optimization, and feature exploitation
 Progressive experience with Snowflake capacity planning and cost monitoring
 Five or more years of relevant software engineering experience (Python, Scala and SQL) in a data-focused role
 Experience in solving complex data processing and storage challenges through scalable, fault-tolerant architec-
ture
 Experience in designing and building highly scalable and reliable data pipelines using BigData (Airflow, Dat-
abricks, Snowflake).
 Software development experience with proficiency in Python, Java, Scala or another language.
 Passionate about data engineering, analytics, distributed systems and solving complex data problems.
 Prior experience shipping scalable data solutions in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and database technologies
such as Snowflake, Redshift, SQL/NoSQL and or columnar databases
 Knowledge of PySpark / Spark libraries
 Experience with SageMaker
 Experience with cloud environments (AWS based) like DynamoDB, EC2, SQS, IAM, Airflow, Jenkins, Step
Function / Lambda
 2+ Years in implementing data engineering solutions with Databricks.
 This is hands on role building data pipelines using Databricks. Hands-on technical experience with Apache
Spark.
 Hadoop, Hive and/or Spark to write data pipelines and data processing layers
 Performance Tuning of Spark SQL running on S3/Data Lake/Delta Lake/ storage and Strong Knowledge on
Databricks and Cluster Configurations.
 Nice to have Databricks administration including security and infrastructure features of Databricks.
 Experience with Development Tools for CI/CD, Unit and Integration testing, Automation and Orchestration

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  Experience with Jira, Confluence
 Understand finance domain
 Knowledge of relational/non-relational databases e.g., Teradata, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data solutions
or Hadoop.
 Experience working in a high performing agile delivery model, aligning with Scrum Masters, Product Owners,
and other execution team members to deliver rapid and impactful solutions that align to business partner
strategy.
 Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to tech-
nical and non-technical partners.
 Dedicated & Motivated to work on a challenging environment.

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