Associate Director, Metadata and Semantics Lead
Novartis
Summary
Data is transforming how healthcare innovates, and metadata is the foundation that makes trusted, discoverable, and AI-ready data possible. As Associate Director, Metadata Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Novartis' enterprise data ecosystem by driving metadata excellence across certified data products, data models, and critical business assets. Working with cross-functional leaders in data governance, engineering, quality, and analytics, you will help ensure our data is trusted, transparent, reusable, and ready to accelerate breakthrough insights that ultimately improve patient lives.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Define and advance enterprise metadata standards, frameworks, policies, and operating practices.
- Lead metadata capture, curation, validation, and lifecycle management across enterprise data assets.
- Establish metadata requirements for certified data products and artificial intelligence ready datasets.
- Ensure accurate documentation of ownership, lineage, classifications, quality rules, and business definitions.
- Partner with data modeling teams to align metadata with enterprise data structures and relationships.
- Collaborate with data governance and stewardship teams to improve data transparency and trust.
- Drive automation of metadata ingestion, lineage capture, and catalog synchronization processes.
- Support data product certification through validation of metadata completeness and readiness standards.
- Lead metadata issue resolution, root cause analysis, remediation tracking, and stakeholder communications.
- Champion enterprise data discoverability, reuse, and adoption of data catalog capabilities.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Analytics, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in metadata management, data governance, data management, data catalog implementation, data stewardship, data architecture, or related data roles.
- Experience supporting enterprise data catalog, business glossary, lineage, data product, or data governance programs.
- Experience partnering with business and technical stakeholders to define metadata standards, capture requirements, and improve data discoverability.
Desirable Requirements
- Advanced degree or professional certification in data management, data governance, cloud technologies, or data architecture.
- Experience in complex, regulated, or enterprise-scale data environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Analytics, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in metadata management, data governance, data management, data catalog implementation, data stewardship, data architecture, or related data roles.
- Experience supporting enterprise data catalog, business glossary, lineage, data product, or data governance programs.
- Experience partnering with business and technical stakeholders to define metadata standards, capture requirements, and improve data discoverability.
- Advanced degree or professional certification in data management, data governance, cloud technologies, or data architecture.
- Experience in complex, regulated, or enterprise-scale data environments.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401(k) with company match
- Performance-based cash incentive
- Annual equity awards
- Vacation
- Personal days
- Holidays
Company overview
Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As an innovative medicines company, Novartis focuses on developing high-value treatments that address society's greatest disease burdens through technology leadership in research and development. The company operates across five core therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases; immunology; neuroscience; oncology; and hematology. With a workforce of approximately 75,883 employees worldwide, Novartis reaches nearly 300 million patients across 118 countries. The company leverages advanced technology platforms including targeted protein degradation, cell therapy, gene therapy, radioligand therapy, and xRNA to develop breakthrough treatments. Novartis maintains a strong portfolio of oncology drugs and generics while continuously expanding its pipeline through strategic acquisitions and internal research. The company's commitment extends beyond drug development to ensuring global access to medical innovations through novel access approaches and patient assistance programs.