Remote-Eligible Associate Director, Data Modeling & AI

Novartis; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Data Modeling, to design and govern enterprise data assets supporting analytics, reporting, and AI-ready datasets. You will partner with business and technology leaders to create scalable, reusable data models that power innovation and informed decision-making across the organization.

The role emphasizes collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into implementable structures, ensuring alignment with CDM standards, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a data-related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data modeling, data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data management.
• Experience building conceptual, logical, and physical data models for enterprise data platforms or CDM programs.
• Experience translating requirements into implementable data structures.
• Experience with data product, data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platform environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern conceptual, logical, and physical enterprise data models.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, implementation-ready data structures.
• Model critical enterprise domains, including customer, product, payer, and territory data.
• Partner with business and technical teams to define entities, relationships, and business rules.
• Establish and maintain enterprise data modeling standards and design patterns.
• Review and approve data models for alignment with Common Data Model standards.
• Ensure data models are represented within metadata and lineage platforms.
• Support certified data products with governed, reusable, AI-ready data structures.
• Identify and resolve data model gaps, duplication, and cross-domain inconsistencies.
• Provide data modeling expertise, documentation, and design guidance to stakeholders and engineering teams.

Skills

Data modeling

Data architecture

Data engineering

Enterprise data management

CDM programs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Business, or related field

Job description

Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Data Modeling, to design and govern enterprise data assets supporting analytics, reporting, and AI-ready datasets. You will partner with business and technology leaders to create scalable, reusable data models that power innovation and informed decision-making across the organization.

The role emphasizes collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into implementable structures, ensuring alignment with CDM standards, and