Director, Enterprise Semantic & Knowledge Engineering

Socket.dev; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 274,000 - 370,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an Executive Director, Semantic and Knowledge Engineering to define the enterprise semantic layer and governance across data and AI assets.

You will lead ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge models, partnering with AI, data science, and product teams to enable scalable, trusted insights within NovaOS. A remote-friendly East Hanover location is considered with travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Bioinformatics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, enterprise architecture, data management, or AI platforms, including leadership experience.
• Deep expertise with ontologies, taxonomies, metadata, RDF/OWL, knowledge graphs, graph databases, semantic web technologies, and enterprise information architecture.
• Experience building enterprise semantic platforms that enable AI, analytics, search, and data interoperability at scale.
• Exceptional leadership, executive communication, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, and knowledge graph capabilities.
• Lead the development and governance of enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, business vocabularies, and semantic models.
• Design and implement the enterprise semantic layer enabling trusted AI, analytics, interoperability, and reusable knowledge.
• Partner with multiple teams to embed semantic capabilities into NovaOS products and AI solutions.
• Establish governance, metadata management, knowledge lifecycle processes, and quality standards.
• Drive innovation in knowledge graphs, RAG, semantic search, and AI-enabled knowledge management.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of semantic engineers and ontology specialists.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence

Data Governance

Data Management

Data Literacy

Data Visualization

Machine Learning (ML)

Deep Learning

Time Series Analysis

Statistical Analysis

Learning Agility

Mentorship

Stakeholder Engagement

Change Management

Curious Mindset

Business Value Creation

Data Quality

Data Science

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Bioinformatics, or related discipline

Job description

Novartis is seeking an Executive Director, Semantic and Knowledge Engineering to define the enterprise semantic layer and governance across data and AI assets.

You will lead ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge models, partnering with AI, data science, and product teams to enable scalable, trusted insights within NovaOS. A remote-friendly East Hanover location is considered with travel up to 10%.