About the client
Novartis is one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, headquartered in Switzerland. With operations spanning more than 150 countries, Novartis focuses on innovative medicines and healthcare solutions. As a highly regulated organization, Novartis maintains strict requirements for data protection, compliance, and IT infrastructure reliability.
Collaboration scope
I contributed to projects at Novartis through work focused on data protection, compliance, and enterprise-scale IT systems. The main challenges were related to handling sensitive health and research data in line with GDPR and HIPAA requirements, ensuring that applications and datasets were securely managed while still supporting business needs.
My role and contributions
As a Technical Team Leader, my responsibilities included:
- Data protection and compliance: designing and implementing data masking strategies tailored to Novartis’ systems and compliance obligations (GDPR, HIPAA).
- Security audits: supporting and participating in compliance audits, ensuring technical processes met regulatory requirements.
- Application and data infrastructure: preparing and managing datasets for secure use in testing and development environments.
- Technology evaluation: analyzing and benchmarking tools for data masking and secure data handling.
- Collaboration: working closely with multidisciplinary teams of analysts, developers, and compliance officers to align technical solutions with regulatory expectations.
Value delivered
The cooperation helped Novartis strengthen its approach to handling sensitive data and ensured that its IT systems met strict regulatory requirements. By combining architectural oversight with hands-on technical work, I contributed to safer and more reliable processes for managing critical healthcare information.