Associate Director: Metadata & Semantics Leader

Novartis AG; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis AG in East Hanover, New Jersey is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Metadata Lead to shape the enterprise data ecosystem. You will drive metadata excellence across certified data products, data models, and critical assets, collaborating with governance, engineering, quality, and analytics teams.

The role emphasizes leadership in metadata standards, lifecycle management, and data discoverability, with cross-functional partnerships to enable AI-ready data and trusted information

Qualifications

• 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.

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 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.

Skills

Metadata management

Data governance

Data stewardship

Data catalog

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Novartis AG in East Hanover, New Jersey is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Metadata Lead to shape the enterprise data ecosystem. You will drive metadata excellence across certified data products, data models, and critical assets, collaborating with governance, engineering, quality, and analytics teams.

The role emphasizes leadership in metadata standards, lifecycle management, and data discoverability, with cross-functional partnerships to enable AI-ready data and trusted information