Data Platform Lead

Are you a visionary data engineer with a passion for cutting-edge technology and a keen eye for architecture and operational excellence? Would you thrive in a dynamic environment where your expertise helps shape the future of a world-leading healthcare company? Join Novo Nordisk Japan as a Data Platform Lead and play a pivotal role in strengthening our data foundation to enable high-impact business decisions that ultimately make a difference for Japanese people living with chronic diseases. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage global resources and create a state-of-the-art data platform that aligns with local business needs.
 

About the department 
Data & Analytics is a new team formed by consolidating Data Management and Business Intelligence roles into a single, elevated department in response to Novo Nordisk Japan’s in-creasing investment in this area. You will work alongside Data Product Owners and Analytics Product Owners, enabling their engineering teams to develop high-value, often business-critical solutions for stakeholders in commercial teams across the organization.

The position
As the Platform Lead on our Data & Analytics Team, you will leverage and adapt Novo Nordisk’s new global data architecture to build a modern, Snowflake-based solution for data warehousing and automation in Japan. You will ensure this platform meets local requirements and is utilized in accordance with our Data Governance framework. You will also oversee a small team responsible for data source ingestion and the preparation of a clean and normalized upstream environment, providing other engineers with the building blocks necessary to develop and deploy logic-rich data products on your platform. These products will serve a wide range of use-cases, creating value for our commercial organization by automating quantitative processes and enabling data-driven decision-making.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with global headquarters to adopt Novo Nordisk's new data infrastruc-ture and adapt their architecture to provide a Snowflake-based data storage and engineering environment that fit the local requirements and operating model.
• Evaluate and integrate development tools (e.g., dbt) and orchestration tools (e.g., Dagster) to optimize local workflows while ensuring alignment with the global plat-form roadmap.
• Manage environments to enable efficient development and secure access control, defining engineering best practices around repository management, testing, code review, and CI/CD processes.
• Oversee a small team of vendor-based engineers responsible for data source inges-tion and preparing clean, normalized tables for other teams to use when developing final Data Products for business consumption.
• Ensure pipeline monitoring and quick resolution of ingestion-related issues by serving as an escalation point and supporting the troubleshooting process.
• Manage the Data Governance framework and maintain a comprehensive Data Catalogue, providing technical and business stakeholders with a transparent overview of available Data Sources and Data Products, along with clear roles and accounta-bilities.
• Communicate the platform roadmap, status updates, and enhancements to local business leaders and global counterparts, translating complex technical concepts into strategic insights.

Qualifications

• Full proficiency in English required; business-level Japanese preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of combined experience in Data Management or Data Engineering, preferably in an international, enterprise setting.
• Advanced SQL skills, knowledge of Python, and familiarity with the modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Apache Airflow, AWS, etc.) as well as familiarity with modern methodologies for software projects and operations (e.g., SAFe, DevOps); experience from regulated industries considered a plus.
• Experience managing engineering resources, including line management, team leadership, or vendor relationships.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.  

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
 

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.

Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
 

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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