Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM) needs to define and operationalize frameworks, standards, and practices to ensure R&D data is trusted, well-documented, and easily discoverable, integrating data governance, metadata management, and data cataloging into a unified capability to drive data quality, compliance, and interoperability across the R&D data ecosystem, making R&D data AI-ready.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of experience in data governance, metadata managementin 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 lineage frameworks.
- Experience with data cataloging platforms and metadata repositories.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the R&D data governance strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
- Develop 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 lineage, provenance, and business rules to support compliance, traceability, and reuse.
- Lead the implementation and ongoing management of enterprise data cataloging tools.
- Ensure all critical R&D datasets, data products, and master data entities are indexed, searchable, and properly described.
- Define and monitor KPIs for data quality, completeness, and compliance across domains.
Other
- Establish clear ownership, stewardship, and accountability models across scientific and operational domains.
- Drive adoption of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and standards across R&D.
- Collaborate with data stewards and product owners to continuously enrich catalog content and improve user experience.
- 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).
- Work closely with Knowledge Management, 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.
- 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.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and change management skills.
- Excellent communication and ability to demonstrate governance and metadata as enablers of business/science value.
- Master’s or PhD in Information Management, Data Science, Life Sciences, or related discipline.
