Director, Data Governance, Metadata & Cataloging

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• Define and execute the R&D data governance strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
• Establish clear ownership, stewardship, and accountability models across scientific and operational domains.
• Drive adoption of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and standards across R&D.

Metadata Management

• reputed company and manage metadata standards to describe, contextualize, and trace R&D data assets across their lifecycle.
• Partner with ontologies and knowledge graph initiatives to ensure metadata is harmonized with enterprise semantic frameworks.
• Ensure metadata captures data reputed company, provenance, and business rules to support compliance, traceability, and reuse.

Data Cataloging & Discoverability

• reputed company the implementation and ongoing management of enterprise data cataloging tools.
• Ensure reputed company critical R&D datasets, data products, and master data entities are indexed, searchable, and properly described.
• Collaborate with data stewards and product owners to continuously enrich catalog content and improve user experience.

Data Quality & Compliance

• Define and monitor KPIs for data quality, completeness, and compliance across domains.
• Partner with Master Data Management to ensure harmonization of shared entities (e.g., compounds, studies, patients, sites).
• Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to enforce regulatory requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, GxP).

Collaboration & Integration

• Work closely with reputed company, Data Products, and Platform teams to integrate governance, metadata, and cataloging capabilities into broader R&D workflows.
• Partner with IT (JJT) and external vendors to evaluate and deploy best-in-class tools and technologies.

Communication & Value Realization

• Communicate governance, metadata, and cataloging priorities, metrics, and value realization to executive leadership.
• Champion a culture of data literacy, promoting the benefits of discoverable, well-documented, and well-governed data.

Strategic Impact

• The Director, Data Governance, Metadata & Cataloging ensures R&D data is governed, documented, and discoverable, providing the foundation for trusted insights, regulatory compliance, and advanced analytics. By embedding governance, metadata, and cataloging into daily operations, this role transforms data from a fragmented asset into a connected, findable, and AI-ready enterprise resource.

Qualifications

Education

• Master’s or PhD in Information Management, Data Science, Life Sciences, or reputed company discipline.

Skills & Expertise

• 8–10+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management in pharma/biotech or regulated industries.
• Proven success in implementing governance frameworks and metadata/cataloging tools at scale.
• Deep understanding of governance principles, metadata management, cataloging, and FAIR data.
• Familiarity with ontologies, semantic standards, and data reputed company frameworks.
• Experience with data cataloging platforms and metadata repositories.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and change management skills.
• Excellent communication and ability to demonstrate governance and metadata as enablers of business/science value.

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national reputed company, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. reputed company is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us reputed company https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource. #LI-Hybrid #JRDDS #JNJDataScience #JNJIMRND-DS The anticipated reputed company pay range for this position is : The anticipated reputed company pay range for this position is $160,000 to $276,000 USD. Additional Description for Pay Transparency: Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the reputed company –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours reputed company one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours Additional information can be reputed company through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits Apply tot his job Apply To this Job