Manager, Solutions Architect (Analytics and Digital Innovation)
Company: Novartis Group Companies
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: March 18, 2023
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Job Description:
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Manager, Solutions Architect (Analytics and Digital Innovation)
Job Description
6000! That's the number of associates in the Novartis Institutes
for BioMedical Research (NIBR). This division is the innovation
engine of Novartis, focusing on powerful new technologies that have
the potential to help produce therapeutic breakthroughs for
patients.
This opportunity is located at the Novartis (NIBR) Cambridge, MA
site, and will not have the ability to be located remotely.
The Digital Innovation and Analytics group in NIBR Scientific
Operations supports a diverse group of functions directly
supporting the scientific research community. Spanning across
coordinating and conducting invivo research, ensuring scientists
are supplied with critical consumables, chemicals and managing
compliance to controlled substances and other sensitive materials.
The goal and mission of our team is to lead and enable thee digital
transformation across these spaces with deep data insights and
innovative solutions.
You will be collaborating with these functions and the research
community to uncover opportunities to increase the connectivity of
our systems and data, discover data-driven recommendations to
improve the quality and efficacy of our services, and create novel
and creative solutions to impact the speed and quality of our drug
discovery mission. While the current digital portfolio is strong
and robust, there are always opportunities to identify and deliver
innovation to support our scientists in a better way!
What will you be responsible for
Business
* Build deep understanding of SciOps functional areas and relevant
scientific community operations in order to meaningfully translate
customer needs into scalable and deployable solutions
* Engage with global and cross-functional colleagues to uncover
opportunities to transform data into actionable insights and
analytics
* Actively participate in and influence discussions around end-user
requirements, design, and infrastructure
* Proactively lead initiatives across the technology landscape to
identify new emerging trends and technologies
* Create, develop, configure and maintain technology solutions
required for PoCs, iterating or pivoting as required
* Provide technical leadership to support broader innovation team
conversations with the business
* Engage with Functional Area leadership to introduce and ideate
innovative solutions focused on enhancing and improving end user
experience and operational efficiency
* Build long-term relationships with our Scientific Operations
teams to support the development of Digital Innovation and
Analytics in their teams over the long-term
Technical
* Solutions Development Specialty
o Develop advanced data visualizations leveraging both established
guidelines and custom designs
o Develop bespoke business workflow solutions using Office 365,
AWS, and Databricks platforms
o Create complex formulas and calculations within visualization
software and backend databases to meet the needs of complex
business logic
o Use strong SQL skills to create and maintain the data
transformation processes feeding the Scientific Operations
Centralized Data Lake and analytics solutions
o Follow rigorous and structured testing, iteration, and feedback
gathering processes to ensure user adoption and continuous
improvement of products
* Data and Infrastructure Specialty
o Contributes to developing and monitoring the organization's
technology architecture and future technology vision. Develop
reports in conjunction with the Solution Developer which
demonstrate business opportunities and road map strategies that add
business value.
o Design, implement, integrate, and support software in a
multi-tiered, multi-platform environment
o Install, configure, and develop programs and related distributed
system software on multiple mainframe/distributed hardware/software
environments. Collaborate and consult with application development
teams to determine platform selection, efficient transaction
design, and use.
o Manage and maintain backend infrastructure for productive
solutions; upgrade, scale, and troubleshoot to support business
needs
EEO Statement
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and
take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not
discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other
employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender,
national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other
legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse
teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and
we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold
innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash
their full potential.
Minimum requirements
What you'll need:
* Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience (Data
Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics,
etc.); Master's degree is preferred
* Generally curious person with interest in exploring and building
a deep understanding of the SciOps functions and NIBR R&D
process beyond only what is required for individual tasks
* Knowledge of developing and deploying PoCs using IoT, ML, AI, and
other novel technologies
* Expertise in visual analytics design and development, preferably
in TIBCO Spotfire
* Expertise with relational databases (Oracle, SAP, pgSQL) and ETL
processes (Python, Scala)
* Expertise with cloud environments and technologies, primarily AWS
(RDS, EC2, VPC, Lambda)
* Expertise in programming skills in Linux Shell/CLI, Python,
Powershell, etc
* Experience in full stack development Python, Flask, React,
etc.
* Experience with enabling modern deep learning software
architectures and frameworks including Tensorflow, PyTorch or other
frameworks
* 3+ years in analytics development performing both visualization
and data aggregation
* 5+ years in operations and/or customer focused role
Why Novartis?
769 million. That's how many lives our products touched in 2020.
And while we're proud of that fact, in this world of digital and
technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how
can we continue to improve and extend even more people's lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and
collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring
environment. Where you're given opportunities to explore the power
of digital and data. Where you're empowered to risk failure by
taking smart risks, and where you're surrounded by people who share
your determination to tackle the world's toughest medical
challenges.
Imagine what you could do at Novartis!
Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodations : Individuals in need
of a reasonable accommodation due to a medical condition or
disability for any part of the application process, or to perform
the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to
tas.nacomms@novartis.com or call +1 (877)395-2339 and let us know
the nature of your request and your contact information. Please
include the job requisition number in your message.
Vaccine Policy : While Novartis does not require vaccination at
this time, for certain Novartis sites in the US all associates and
candidates may be required to either upload an image of their
COVID-19 vaccine card demonstrating proof of full vaccination for
COVID-19 (or other similar evidence of vaccination) or proof of a
negative COVID-19 test taken by the associate or candidate within
the past seven days to enter any of our sites and/or customer
office or healthcare facility, as well as prior to participating in
other work related off-site meetings. Employees working in
customer-facing roles must adhere to and comply with customers'
(such as hospitals, physician offices, etc.) credentialing
guidelines, which may require vaccination. As required by
applicable law, Novartis will consider requests for reasonable
accommodation for those unable to be vaccinated. This requirement
is subject to applicable state and local laws and may not be
applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions. Please
send accommodation requests to
Eh.occupationalhealth@novartis.com.
Join our Novartis Network:
If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but
you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our
career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here:
https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
Division
NIBR
Business Unit
CFO
Country
USA
Work Location
Cambridge, MA
Company/Legal Entity
NIBRI
Functional Area
Research & Development
Job Type
Full Time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
Early Talent
Yes
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