Specialist - Data Quality

Job Description Summary

Novartis Technical Operations (NTO) Global Operations Center (GOC) Data Governance team is setup to develop and maintain the right metadata, master data, data quality parameters, data lineage, KPI reports and workflows to ensure that data is governed, consistent, reliable and easily accessible for decision-making while ensuring data is maintained across NTO as per Pharmaceutical regulatory and compliance requirement.
Data Quality Specialist drive a strong Data Quality Management culture within team particularly focusing on improving Master Data Quality and enabling Master Data Governance by publishing KPIs & Reports.
Drives Data Quality enhancement across the organization for consistency, correctness and completeness and facilitate data enabled decision making for Novartis internal customers by providing quality data.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Act as point of contact for Data Quality issues in NTO.
Follow up with Business SPOCs on data quality issues in the MDA module.
Create/modify new or existing reports as per different user requirements.
Analyze data quality enrichment and cleansing requests from Data Stewards and Business Owners
Implement data cleansing and linking strategy as per documented data quality improvement strategy
Responsible for rolling out the periodical Data Quality assessments, DQ KPI measurements, Gap analysis & Continuous improvement to ensure that active Data Governance is achieved, and data quality meets business need and complies with mandatory standards
Develop training materials, documents on scope of the reports, data quality rules and various data governance modules
Provide analytical support to business by publishing Excel/QlikView/QlikSense reports for Data quality
Perform root cause analysis on data inconsistencies highlighted by users and recommending improvements.
Capture business requirements for data management functionality and translating the information to developers to help building effective information flow

Essential Requirement:

4+ years of experience in Data Quality Management projects with hands on experience in relevant technologies like Informatica or equivalent ETL tool, SQL or PL/SQL
Excellent analytical skills with experience of creating reports and dealing with large volumes of data
Experience of working in a multicultural self-directed team
Very good understanding of Master Data, Data Quality and Data Governance concepts

Desirable Requirement:

Bachelor / Master s degree from reputed University in Pharma, Computers or IT or equivalent

Skills Desired

Bom (Bill Of Materials), Business Networking, Business Scenario Planning , Change Control, Efficiency, Erp Systems, Flexibility, General Hse Knowledge, Including Gdp, Inventory Management, Knowledge Of Gmp, Master Data, Material Requirements Planning (Mrp), Order Management, Product Distribution, Risk Management, Scheduler, Supply Chain, Supply-Chain Management, Supply Management, Supply Planning, Transportation, Warehouse Management