Senior Data Enablement Director - Animal Health IT

MSD; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Competitive salary & incentive pay

Pension and health insurance

5 weeks annual leave

Job summary

MSD is seeking an Associate Director in Animal Health IT to lead Data Enablement. The role focuses on defining data enablement strategy, governance, and collaboration with Value Teams to deliver domain data products and AI-ready capabilities.

The position emphasizes self-service data, cross-functional alignment, and measurable outcomes through adoption and data quality metrics. Hybrid working and a competitive compensation package are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Data Enablement strategy for assigned data domains, aligned with program objectives.
• Establish and enforce data enablement standards, guardrails, and design principles covering data quality, metadata, lineage, access, privacy, and AI readiness.
• Act as the AIDE liaison to Value Teams, co-designing domain data products while maintaining separation between enablement and ownership.
• Enable self-service data capabilities with guardrails, in collaboration with platforms, engineering, and security teams.
• Own and evolve data enablement roadmaps, prioritizing capabilities based on domain needs, adoption, and business value.
• Ensure data products are discoverable, trusted, reusable, and fit for analytics and GenAI use cases.
• Partner with analytics, AI, and data science teams to support AI needs.
• Define and track product-style metrics (adoption, data quality, time-to-delivery, consumer satisfaction).
• Support domain governance councils and cross-domain alignment.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

Data lineage

Access control

Compliance

Domain data products

Product management principles

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

GenAI readiness

Data enablement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

Tools

Collibra Data Catalog

Immuta

Job description

MSD is seeking an Associate Director in Animal Health IT to lead Data Enablement. The role focuses on defining data enablement strategy, governance, and collaboration with Value Teams to deliver domain data products and AI-ready capabilities.

The position emphasizes self-service data, cross-functional alignment, and measurable outcomes through adoption and data quality metrics. Hybrid working and a competitive compensation package are offered.