Data Foundations Architect AI, Metadata & Governance

UCB S.A.; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead enterprise data governance, metadata management, and ontology initiatives across Patient Solutions. You will shape data standards, drive AI-enabled metadata strategies, and collaborate with scientific and technology teams to ensure scalable data models and reusable data products.

The role emphasizes partnering with data owners and research teams, embedding standards at data creation, and advancing FAIR data principles within a hybrid work

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 a closely 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 highly 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 to ensure consistent representation and traceability of data across Patient Solutions.
• Design and implement scalable metadata management capabilities that improve data quality, lineage, interoperability and discoverability across structured and unstructured data.
• Drive the adoption of AI-enabled approaches to metadata generation, curation and knowledge management.
• Partner with data owners and scientific teams to embed data standards and governance at the point of data creation.
• Define scalable conceptual and logical data models that support 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 ensure alignment between business capabilities, data standards and technology platforms.
• Influence stakeholders across scientific and digital communities to drive adoption of data governance and foundation capabilities.

Skills

Metadata management

Data lineage

Data quality

Ontology management

Semantic technologies

Knowledge graphs

Structured data

Unstructured data

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Influence without authority

Certifications (DAMA/CDMP/TOGAF)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, Bioinformatics or a related discipline

Job description

UCB is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead enterprise data governance, metadata management, and ontology initiatives across Patient Solutions. You will shape data standards, drive AI-enabled metadata strategies, and collaborate with scientific and technology teams to ensure scalable data models and reusable data products.

The role emphasizes partnering with data owners and research teams, embedding standards at data creation, and advancing FAIR data principles within a hybrid work