Job Description Summary

Develop and implement strategies & roadmap for reusable data assets to support digital transformation goals. Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data products and custom data solutions, ensuring they effectively meet evolving business needs, perform optimally, and are regularly improved to support digital objectives and data driven innovation.

Job Description

Lakehouse Data Products Solution Owner

Join us in building the future of Sandoz. 

Through STEP (Sandoz Transformation Enterprise Program), we are creating a unified, integrated digital core and simplifying our end-to-end ways of working. From SAP S/4HANA to Veeva, Workday, LabVantage, and beyond, you’ll help design and deliver future-ready systems that drive global impact — enabling us to deliver affordable medicines to more patients worldwide.

Job Summary

Develop and implement strategies & roadmap for reusable data assets to support digital transformation goals. Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data products and custom data solutions, ensuring they effectively meet evolving business needs, perform optimally, and are regularly improved to support digital objectives and data driven innovation

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Act as the central point of contact for all non-SAP content and custom data products, ensuring continuous alignment with business strategies and process requirements.
• Manage the entire lifecycle of related data assets, ensuring re-usability, overseeing downstream impact e.g. through data model version control
• Partners with other IT and/or business use-case teams turning data requirements into re-usable enterprise data assets
• Identify and implement custom data products in close alignment with data architecture to support analytics insights and improve user experience by supporting emerging data needs.
• Drive design and management of related data products in accordance with design & architecture guidelines on data storage, processing and utilization including performance considerations.
• Analyze technical as well as data requirements and translate them into functional specifications for implementation in close alignment with enterprise archtecture standards
• Focus on physical data models, ensuring data governance and data integration for Databricks Delta Lake cloud-based data solutions to meet business needs.
• Collaborate with business process experts and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless business solution implementations and integrations with downstream business applications.
• Focus on physical data models, ensuring data governance and data integration for Databricks Delta Lake cloud-based data solutions to meet business needs.
• Ensure proper change management processes and drive data model versioning & release deployments and effective data consumer skills. Transparency on assets is in place
• Engage and manage stakeholders, fostering collaboration and alignment.
• Ensure data products meet the organization’s security and GDPR requirements, including securing user roles and access control using Identity Management (IdM) or SailPoint.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors to support compliance audits, leveraging audit logging capabilities and tracking system changes to ensure data integrity
• Communicate complex data concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Proven experience in cloud-based big data analytics leveraging Databricks as well as in non-SAP related data sources and products
• Engage and manage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, fostering collaboration and alignment on data-related initiatives
• Definition and delivery of data models and execution of data strategies, in alignment with overarching data management principles  
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in data management processes and technologies
• Foster clear data governance through experience in coordinating with both technical and functional teams.
• Familiarity with compliance and security standards relevant to the application.

• Strong understanding of data management and governance principles.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud-based technologies (AWS, Databricks), with a proven track record of successful implementation and integration in the data analytics area
• Understanding of main technology features supporting data management and analytics

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Business Administration, or related business field; (Master’s degree is preferred) 

Languages:

English

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

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Skills Desired

Budget Management, Business Acumen, Performance Management, Planning, Risk Management, Service Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management, Waterfall Project Management