Associate Director, Data Semantic Governance

The Associate Director Data Semantic Governance will shape the strategic direction for how business data is governed and leveraged across the organization ensuring a trusted scalable and AI-ready enterprise foundation. This individual serves as the bridge between business stakeholders data operations teams (for Commercial and APS) data strategy and BI teams as well as our BTS (IT) partners.

The candidate will own the governance standards and decision framework for AbbVies semantic and logical data landscape that ensures data is consistent interoperable compliant and aligned to enterprise priorities. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in data governance semantic architecture metadata master data management and data quality along with executive presence and the ability to influence and drive alignment across the organization

Responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment & Semantic Governance

Partner with Data Strategy Analytics and BTS (IT) teams to design a Semantic Governance process. Collaborate with BTS to define and approve semantic layer design ontology mappings standardize business glossary/terminology canonical data models metric definitions dimensions and hierarchies entity resolution and master data data stewardship metadata data quality and lineage search and discovery capabilities Way of asking AI glossary access and governance rules and consumption interfaces. Use usage patterns feedback and issue trends to improve semantic models.

Develop and implement standardized templates for AI agents to promote consistency scalability and ease of use. Establish and evolve enterprise data governance frameworks. Serve as the governance liaison between APEX business teams and BTS to align execution with commercial strategy enterprise transformation goals privacy & compliance and AI enablement.

Execution Data Quality & Optimization

Define and operationalize business-driven data quality rules anomaly detection and monitoring protocols to strengthen trust in enterprise data. Partner with data stewards and IT teams to ensure data assets are cataloged sensitivity-classified and tagged with end-to-end lineage. Review data health score for completeness consistency accuracy timeliness and usability. Support quality scorecards controls and periodic governance reviews. Drive compliance-by-design across the enterprise data ecosystem and support proof-of-concepts for emerging semantic metadata and data governance technologies.

Enterprise Influence & Strategic Enablement

Influence senior stakeholders by clearly articulating how data governance and business architecture drive enterprise value. Represent the data governance function in executive forums governance councils and strategic working groups while fostering cross-functional alignment around shared standards stewardship expectations and future-state data capabilities. Provide strategic oversight into initiatives partners and vendors supporting enterprise data governance priorities and support investment decisions by connecting governance capabilities to enterprise outcomes and long-term value creation.

Qualifications :

• A bachelors degree or masters degree in information systems Business Analytics Computer Science or a related field is required.
• 7 years of progressive experience in data governance business data architecture or data management acting as the bridge between business strategy and IT execution.
• Deep expertise with data governance and cataloging platforms (e.g. Alation Collibra) and Master Data Management (MDM) platforms (e.g. Reltio Informatica).
• Advanced knowledge of conceptual and logical data modeling business glossaries data lineage and semantic layer design.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for data profiling querying and quality assessment.
• Solid understanding of cloud data ecosystems (Snowflake AWS Azure) to effectively partner with and guide BTS engineering teams.
• Proven ability to author enterprise data standards and drive adherence across diverse business units and analytics users.
• Prior experience in the Pharma/Life Sciences industry is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication and technical translation skills; able to distill complex architectural concepts into clear business value for non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information :

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: 

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. 
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation holidays sick) medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission incentive benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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