Associate Director, Metadata and Semantics Lead
Novartis
September 03, 2026
Remote friendly (East Hanover, NJ)
United States
IT
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 AI-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.
- Support data product certification through metadata completeness and readiness validation.
- Lead metadata issue resolution, root cause analysis, remediation tracking, and stakeholder communications.
- Champion enterprise data discoverability, reuse, and data catalog adoption.
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/management, data catalog implementation, data stewardship, data architecture, or related 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 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.
Benefits (explicitly stated):
- Performance-based cash incentive; eligibility for annual equity awards (depending on role level). US-based eligible employees: health/life/disability, 401(k) with company contribution/match, and time off (vacation, personal days, holidays, other leaves).
Application Instructions:
- Accessibility request contact: [email protected] or +1(877)395-2339 (include job requisition number).
- 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 AI-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.
- Support data product certification through metadata completeness and readiness validation.
- Lead metadata issue resolution, root cause analysis, remediation tracking, and stakeholder communications.
- Champion enterprise data discoverability, reuse, and data catalog adoption.
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/management, data catalog implementation, data stewardship, data architecture, or related 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 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.
Benefits (explicitly stated):
- Performance-based cash incentive; eligibility for annual equity awards (depending on role level). US-based eligible employees: health/life/disability, 401(k) with company contribution/match, and time off (vacation, personal days, holidays, other leaves).
Application Instructions:
- Accessibility request contact: [email protected] or +1(877)395-2339 (include job requisition number).