Director - Visualization Platforms
Novartis
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Location: Hyderabad
Job Description
Major Accountabilities:
Own end‑to‑end leadership of the Enterprise Visualization Platform and Power BI Delivery Factory, enabling scalable, governed analytics across regions and domains.
Define and execute the platform strategy, roadmap, target architecture, and legacy BI decommissioning aligned to enterprise standards.
Establish and enforce enterprise‑wide visualization, semantic layer, and user experience standards to ensure a single version of truth and consistent UX.
Build and operate a centralized Power BI Delivery Factory with standardized intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and SLA‑driven execution.
Drive delivery excellence through standardized blueprints, automation, CI/CD, quality gates, and KPI‑based performance management.
Partner with business, Business Analysts, DDIT, and vendors to shape demand, prioritize outcomes, and maximize value realization.
Ensure platform security, compliance, and risk management, embedding ISC, regulatory, and GxP requirements into architecture and delivery.
Min Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology (advanced degree preferred).
15+ years of experience in Data & Analytics / BI, including platform architecture and engineering leadership.
Proven leadership of enterprise analytics or visualization platforms in a global, matrixed environment (5+ years).
Deep expertise in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, including semantic modeling, performance optimization, governance, security, and deployment pipelines.
Hands‑on experience running centralized delivery models and scaling adoption through COE or factory‑based practices.
Strong engineering discipline across CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and release governance, with hands‑on experience in modern data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills; pharma or regulated industry experience and cloud certifications are a plus.
Why Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
Learn more here:
https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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.
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