Associate Director - Data And Platform Architecture

Novartis India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis India is seeking a senior Data & Platform Architect to lead cross-domain data and semantic architecture initiatives across the enterprise. You will define models, ontologies, and governance practices to ensure consistent, trusted data for analytics, GenAI, and cross-domain solutions, partnering with enterprise data owners and platform teams.

You'll design AI-ready architectures, oversee data contracts, metadata, lineage, and security while guiding senior stakeholders in a global matrix

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or certifications preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in Data & Platform Architecture or Enterprise Architecture in large global organizations.
• Strong expertise in conceptual/logical data modeling and metadata management.
• Experience designing enterprise semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and governance frameworks.
• Deep understanding of AI-ready data architecture and analytics enablement.
• Familiarity with TOGAF, DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, Data Mesh, and modern data governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern enterprise data, platform, and semantic architecture standards.
• Lead design of enterprise information models, canonical entities, and cross-domain data relationships.
• Evolve the Enterprise Semantic Layer with semantic models, taxonomies, and governed metrics.
• Design AI-ready data and knowledge architectures for GenAI and analytics.
• Drive data modeling, metadata management, data product enablement, and traceability.
• Embed governance, security, privacy, and compliance into architecture designs.
• Provide strategic architecture advisory to programs, products, and domain teams.
• Foster stakeholder engagement and adoption of enterprise data standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Architecture governance

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Collibra

Ataccama

Reltio

Databricks

Snowflake

Neo4j

Neptune

Job description

Summary

Lead cross-domain Data & Platform architecture and semantic architecture to establish consistent, trusted, reusable, and machine-interpretable data across the enterprise. The role defines how business concepts, data entities, relationships, metrics, and policies are represented and connected across domains, platforms, data products, and analytical solutions. Partner with Enterprise Data Owners, Business Domains, Enterprise Architecture, Data Governance, Platform Engineering, Analytics, and AI teams to translate business needs into conceptual and logical data models, enterprise information models, ontologies, semantic models, knowledge graph patterns, and governed consumption designs. Provide architecture leadership for the Enterprise Semantic Layer, ensuring that business meaning and context are linked to physical data, metadata, lineage, quality, access policies, and reusable metrics. Enable trusted analytics, GenAI, Agentic AI, knowledge discovery, and cross-domain interoperability while maintaining security, privacy, compliance, and architectural standards.

Major Accountabilities

• Define and govern enterprise-wide data, platform, and semantic architecture standards, principles, reference models, and roadmaps aligned to business strategy and target-state architecture.
• Lead the design and maintenance of enterprise information models, conceptual and logical data models, canonical entities, and cross-domain data relationships to ensure consistency and interoperability.
• Establish and evolve the Enterprise Semantic Layer through semantic models, ontologies, taxonomies, knowledge graphs, governed metrics, and reusable business definitions.
• Design AI-ready data and knowledge architectures that enable GenAI, Agentic AI, advanced analytics, RAG, and knowledge-driven decision-making through trusted and governed data assets.
• Drive data modeling, metadata management, data product enablement, and traceability across business concepts, semantic definitions, physical data assets, and consuming solutions.
• Embed governance, quality, security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements into architecture designs and conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments.
• Provide strategic architecture advisory to programs, products, and domain teams, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, reusable patterns, and long-term architectural objectives.
• Foster stakeholder engagement, cross-functional collaboration, innovation, and adoption of enterprise data and semantic standards while continuously improving architecture practices and capabilities.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.
• Approximately 12+ years of experience in Data & Platform Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Management, Analytics, Data Modeling, or Enterprise Architecture within large global organizations.
• Strong expertise in conceptual and logical data modeling, enterprise information architecture, metadata management, data governance, data quality, and data integration.
• Proven experience designing enterprise semantic models, ontologies, taxonomies, knowledge graphs, governed metrics, and semantic interoperability frameworks.
• Deep understanding of AI-ready data architecture, data products, data contracts, metadata, lineage, and advanced analytics enablement.
• Working knowledge of architecture and data management frameworks such as TOGAF, DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, Data Mesh, and modern data governance practices.
• Experience with enterprise data and metadata platforms such as Collibra, Ataccama, Reltio, Immuta, Erwin, Databricks, Snowflake, Neo4j, Neptune, or similar technologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, influencing, and leadership skills with the ability to operate effectively in a global matrix environment.

Why Novartis:

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