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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Core Data Management - **Company:** Novartis Group - **Location:** East Hanover, NJ, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $344,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Metadata, DataOps, Core Data, Collibra, Data Management, Veeva - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88119124/1 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred. * 15+ years of data management or data architecture experience in complex organizations. * 3+ years leading teams within a regulated industry environment. * Demonstrated ownership of an enterprise data model or CDM at scale, with formal domain/master-data governance. * Working fluency in ODCS, DCAT, SKOS, OWL/RDF, or equivalent semantic-web/data-contract standards. * Experience with a modern catalog/governance platform (Data Governance platform, Open Metadata, Atlan, Collibra, or Alation). * Familiarity with pharma commercial data sources (IQVIA Xponent/OneKey/Plantrak, Veeva) is a strong plus. * Proven people-leadership: hiring, coaching ADs, and managing distributed/vendor surge teams to deadlines. * Executive communication skills - able to translate architecture into board-ready narrative. Desirable Requirements * Experience working with pharmaceutical commercial data sources, including IQVIA, Veeva, or similar platforms. ## Description The preferred location for this role is East Hanover, New Jersey site but remote work may be possible (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote, all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to specific East Hanover, New Jersey site for periodic live meetings will be at the employee's expense. 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