Director, Core Data Management & AI-Ready Governance

Novartis Group Companies; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Group Companies seeks a Director, Core Data Management in the East Hanover, NJ area. You will shape enterprise data standards and governance, leading a team to deliver trusted, AI-ready data products at scale.

You will partner with data engineering and business teams to onboard data products, oversee governance, and drive continuous improvement while navigating a global, regulated environment. This is a high-impact leadership role with a strong compensation package.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of data management or data architecture experience in complex organizations.
• 3+ years leading teams within a regulated industry environment.
• Ownership of an enterprise data model/CDM at scale with formal governance.
• Fluency in ODCS, DCAT, SKOS, OWL/RDF or equivalent semantic-web standards.
• Experience with modern catalog/governance platforms (Data Governance platforms, Open Metadata, Atlan, Collibra, or Alation).
• Familiarity with pharma commercial data sources (IQVIA Xponent/OneKey/Plantrak, Veeva).
• Proven people leadership: hiring, coaching, and managing distributed teams to deadlines.
• Executive communication skills – able to translate architecture for board-level audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise standards for core data, metadata, data modeling, and data quality.
• Drive consistent adoption of data standards across certified data products enterprise-wide.
• Establish trusted, governed, AI-ready datasets that enable business value.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Associate Directors across data management domains.
• Partner with data engineering and business teams to onboard and scale data products.
• Oversee post-launch data operations, ensuring performance, stability, and governance compliance.
• Maintain operational documentation, standards, reporting, and delivery metrics.
• Monitor service levels, identify trends, and address operational risks.
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, vendors, and partners to deliver outcomes.
• Champion continuous improvement across the data product lifecycle and governance processes.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Data governance

Data modeling

Semantic web standards

Catalog governance platforms

Pharma data familiarity

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Data governance platforms (Collibra/Open Metadata/Atlan/Alation)

Job description

Novartis Group Companies seeks a Director, Core Data Management in the East Hanover, NJ area. You will shape enterprise data standards and governance, leading a team to deliver trusted, AI-ready data products at scale.

You will partner with data engineering and business teams to onboard data products, oversee governance, and drive continuous improvement while navigating a global, regulated environment. This is a high-impact leadership role with a strong compensation package.