AI-Ready Data Foundations Lead

UCB S.A.; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking a Data Foundations Lead to join the Patient Solutions Digital Strategy & Innovation team in Slough, UK (Windlesham from 2027). You will establish enterprise data foundations, govern metadata, ontologies and data standards to enable scalable, AI-ready data across R&D and operations.

You will collaborate with scientific, digital and enterprise teams, design conceptual and logical data models, promote FAIR data practices, and deliver reusable data products to accelerate research and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, Bioinformatics or a related discipline.
• +8 years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Foundations, Data Governance, Research Informatics, or related field.
• Experience establishing enterprise data foundations, including metadata management, ontology management and data governance.
• Experience designing conceptual and logical data models in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience working with research, scientific or life sciences data is desirable.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled approaches for metadata management, knowledge management or information discovery.
• Experience defining data products, data standards and information models.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary stakeholders, including scientists, business teams and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish and govern enterprise ontologies, business vocabularies and global identifiers for consistent data representation and traceability.
• Design and implement scalable metadata management to improve quality, lineage, interoperability and discoverability across data.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled approaches to metadata generation, curation and knowledge management.
• Partner with data owners and scientific teams to embed data standards at data creation.
• Define scalable conceptual and logical data models supporting research, scientific and business use cases.
• Design and deliver reusable domain data products supporting strategic programmes and AI initiatives.
• Promote FAIR data principles and modern data foundation practices across Patient Solutions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align business capabilities, data standards and technology.
• Influence stakeholders across scientific and digital communities to drive adoption of data governance.

Skills

Metadata management

Data lineage

Data quality

Ontology management

Semantic technologies

Knowledge graphs

Structured data management

Unstructured data management

Stakeholder engagement

Influence without authority

DAMA/CDMP/TOGAF (adv.)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Data Science/Info Mgmt/Bioinformatics

Job description

UCB is seeking a Data Foundations Lead to join the Patient Solutions Digital Strategy & Innovation team in Slough, UK (Windlesham from 2027). You will establish enterprise data foundations, govern metadata, ontologies and data standards to enable scalable, AI-ready data across R&D and operations.

You will collaborate with scientific, digital and enterprise teams, design conceptual and logical data models, promote FAIR data practices, and deliver reusable data products to accelerate research and