Senior Data Modeling Leader - Enterprise & AI-Ready Data

Mygwork; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Data Modeling to design and govern enterprise data assets that support analytics, reporting, and AI-ready datasets across the organization.

This role partners with business and technology leaders to create scalable, reusable data models and to ensure alignment with CDM standards. Location is East Hanover, NJ with potential remote options; compensation includes a comprehensive benefits package and performance-based incentives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Business, or 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.
• Experience with data product, data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platforms.
• Advanced degree or relevant data architecture 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

Data modeling

Data architecture

Enterprise data management

CDM standards

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Management/Information Systems

Tools

Metadata platforms

Job description

Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Data Modeling to design and govern enterprise data assets that support analytics, reporting, and AI-ready datasets across the organization.

This role partners with business and technology leaders to create scalable, reusable data models and to ensure alignment with CDM standards. Location is East Hanover, NJ with potential remote options; compensation includes a comprehensive benefits package and performance-based incentives.