Senior Data Modeling Lead – Enterprise Data Architect

Novartis; United States; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role entails translating requirements into implementable data structures, defining entities and rules, and ensuring data modeling standards across multiple domains and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a 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, data products, master data, or CDM programs.
• Experience translating requirements into implementable data structures.
• Experience with data product, data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platform environments.
• Advanced degree or relevant data architecture, data modeling, cloud, or data management certification preferred.

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 accurately 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

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 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 models and assets that power analytics, reporting, and AI-ready datasets across the organization. You will partner with business and technology leaders to create scalable, reusable data models for decision-making.

The role entails translating requirements into implementable data structures, defining entities and rules, and ensuring data modeling standards across multiple domains and platforms.