Director of Semantic Intelligence & Knowledge Graphs

Socket.dev; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 361,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis seeks a Director of Semantic and Knowledge Engineering to design and govern enterprise semantic assets powering NovaOS. The role partners across Applied AI, Data Science, Product, and Engineering to enable interoperable data, AI reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, and scalable enterprise intelligence.

The ideal candidate will lead ontologies, knowledge graphs, and metadata standards, drive semantic services for AI and analytics, and guide governance across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Bioinformatics, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, metadata management, or enterprise information architecture.
• Hands-on expertise with ontologies, RDF/OWL, knowledge graphs, graph databases, metadata management, and semantic web technologies.
• Experience implementing semantic solutions that enable AI, analytics, interoperability, and enterprise search.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, business vocabularies, and semantic models.
• Develop and maintain knowledge graphs and semantic services that support AI, analytics, search, and business applications.
• Partner with AI, Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate semantic capabilities into NovaOS products and platforms.
• Establish metadata standards, semantic governance processes, and quality controls for enterprise knowledge assets.
• Support AI initiatives by developing semantic foundations for RAG, agentic AI, reasoning engines, and contextual search.
• Evaluate emerging semantic technologies and recommend improvements to the enterprise knowledge architecture.
• Lead and mentor semantic and knowledge engineers while promoting reusable engineering patterns and technical excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/Info Science/AI/Data Science or related

Tools

RDF/OWL

Knowledge graphs

Graph databases

Metadata management

Semantic web

Job description

Novartis seeks a Director of Semantic and Knowledge Engineering to design and govern enterprise semantic assets powering NovaOS. The role partners across Applied AI, Data Science, Product, and Engineering to enable interoperable data, AI reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, and scalable enterprise intelligence.

The ideal candidate will lead ontologies, knowledge graphs, and metadata standards, drive semantic services for AI and analytics, and guide governance across the organization.