Director, Enterprise Metadata & Data Governance

Novartis Group Companies; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, New Jersey, is seeking an Associate Director, Metadata Lead to drive metadata excellence across certified data products, data models, and business assets. You will collaborate with data governance, engineering, quality, and analytics teams to ensure data is trusted, transparent, reusable, and AI-ready, accelerating breakthroughs that improve patient lives.

The role offers visibility across the enterprise, opportunities to shape the data strategy, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Information Systems, CS, Analytics, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of metadata management, data governance, 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 artificial intelligence 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

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer engagement

Customer insights

Data analytics

Digital marketing

Market research

Media campaigns

Product marketing

Stakeholder engagement

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Waterfall model

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Data catalog tooling

Job description

Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, New Jersey, is seeking an Associate Director, Metadata Lead to drive metadata excellence across certified data products, data models, and business assets. You will collaborate with data governance, engineering, quality, and analytics teams to ensure data is trusted, transparent, reusable, and AI-ready, accelerating breakthroughs that improve patient lives.

The role offers visibility across the enterprise, opportunities to shape the data strategy, and