Assoc. Director Visualization(Power BI)

Job Description Summary

Location: Hyderabad
Accountable as the Business System Owner for the Enterprise Visualization Platform, ensuring Business adoption, value realization, and effective utilization.
Partners with DDIT and platform teams to align demand with business priorities, support platform roadmap execution, and ensure adherence to architecture, governance, and experience standards.

Job Description

Major Accountabilities

• Own the business vision and value realization of the Enterprise visualization platform.

  
  
  

• Align platform capabilities with business outcomes and KPIs. Drive demand intake, prioritization, and backlog alignment to business needs.

  
  
  

• Contribute to platform roadmap execution and adoption strategy. Define and track value metrics (usage, impact, decision enablement). Support onboarding of new use cases aligned with governance and architecture.

  
  
  

• Lead legacy BI decommissioning (e.g., Qlik) aligned with platform roadmap. Drive continuous improvement across platform capabilities and operations.

  
  
  

• Enable governed self-service analytics through standardized environments and certified assets. Establish governance and quality reviews ensuring adherence to architecture, engineering, and security standards.

  
  
  

• Build and scale enablement models (training, playbooks, community) to drive adoption.

  
  
  

• Own business governance, funding, and cost optimization for platform usage while ensuring value realization.Ensure full compliance with Information Security & Compliance (ISC), legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements, including GxP where applicable.

  
  
  

• Embed security, privacy, compliance, and risk considerations into platform architectures, delivery standards, and operational processes. Define funding and charging model for platform usage and track cost vs value optimization.

  
  
  

Min Requirements:

• 10+ years in Data & Analytics / BI.

  
  
  

• 5+ years leading enterprise analytics/visualization platforms in a global matrix environment.

  
  
  

• Deep expertise in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric (semantic modelling, performance, governance, RLS, deployment pipelines).

  
  
  

• Working knowledge of modern data platforms and integration patterns (incl. Databricks and Snowflake).

  
  
  

• Proven experience operating a centralized delivery model (intake/prioritization/capacity/SLA reporting) and scaling adoption via COE practices.

  
  
  

• AWS experience preferred; relevant cloud architecture certification is a plus.

  
  
  

• Pharma / life-sciences domain exposure preferred; experience working in regulated contexts (GxP) is an advantage.

  
  
  

• Strong vendor and stakeholder management;

  
  
  

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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Skills Desired

power bi