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IT/OT Senior Lab Specialist
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🇺🇸 Durham
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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The US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description Summary Join Novartis and play a critical role in enabling cutting-edge laboratory operations that help bring innovative medicines to patients. As an IT/OT Senior Lab Specialist, you will lead the strategy, implementation, and lifecycle management of computerized laboratory systems across GMP and non-GMP environments, ensuring reliability, compliance, and operational excellence. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of technology, quality, and science, partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize lab performance, drive continuous improvement, and support a highly regulated manufacturing and development environment where your expertise will directly impact business success and patient outcomes. Job Description Key Responsibilities: • Lead design, configuration, installation, and maintenance of lab instrumentation/equipment software and associated hardware; including interacting with other teams as necessary, e.g., process engineering. • Ensure lab instruments/equipment maintain high availability for lab owners. Work closely with vendors to ensure appropriate instrument/equipment architectures and connectivity are designed and implemented. • Manage work order execution to ensure on-time completion of all required maintenance related activities on lab equipment (e.g, user reviews, audit trail reviews). • Participate as an SME in health authority and internal inspections ensuring full compliance with applicable procedures. • Track and drive to on-time completion of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), including escalation of issues related to closure of CAPA, as appropriate. Lead lab instrument change controls per applicable procedures. • Prepare, review, approve, archive GxP and non-GxP instrument/equipment documentation, e.g., User Requirements (URS), Functional Specification (FS) and Detail Design Specifications (DDS/HDS/SDS). • Lead discussions with internal business partners on priorities, timelines and transparent sharing of information. • Support operational excellence and continuous improvement. Partner with Quality to ensure a quality and compliant lab environment. Problem solve technical related issues impacting lab operations. • Create and update procedures to drive operational efficiency and compliance. Implement and revise SOPs to conform with standards and policies. Support investigations of non-conformances related computerized systems. • Participate as active IT/OT team member providing support to other functions as necessary. Support 24x7 site-based operations including rotating on-call responsibilities. Essential Requirement: • B.S. degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related technical field. • 8 years' work experience in pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical-based lab operations, or equivalent work experience (12 years) in pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical-based lab operations. • Excellent oral and written communication skills. • Experience leading teams installing, configuring and maintaining lab systems in a GMP environment. • Experience implementing computerized system in a corporate network environment. • Knowledge of FDA regulations particularly 21 CFR part 11 and GMP systems. • Knowledge of Quality by Design, six-sigma, and operational excellence tools in creating efficient and high quality processes and end products. • Experience working with and leading 3rd parties (both in-sourcing and outsourcing). Desirable Requirement: • Ability to support contingency plans and logically work through complex issues in a pressure filled atmosphere. • Provide technical support on computerized system lab instrument issues when driving towards issue resolution. Up to 10% travel may be required. Novartis Compensation and Benefit Summary: The salary fo