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About AbbVie
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care. Its products include Humira, Skyrizi, and Rinvoq.
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Associate Director, Data Semantic Governance serves as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and IT partners to shape the strategic direction of enterprise data governance. This role is responsible for establishing governance standards, decision frameworks, and semantic layer designs to ensure a trusted, scalable, and AI-ready data foundation. Key responsibilities include defining data quality rules, managing metadata, overseeing master data management, and creating standardized templates for AI agents. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in SQL, cloud ecosystems like Snowflake, AWS, and Azure, alongside governance platforms such as Alation or Collibra and MDM tools like Reltio or Informatica. The role addresses the complex challenge of ensuring consistent, interoperable, and compliant data across a large enterprise while translating technical architectural concepts into clear business value to drive long-term organizational growth and strategic alignment.
Define and manage the governance standards for the enterprise semantic and logical data landscape.
Standardize business glossaries, terminology, metric definitions, and canonical data models across the organization.
Develop and implement standardized templates for AI agents to ensure consistency and scalability.
Establish and evolve enterprise data governance frameworks to ensure compliance and data integrity.
Define and operationalize data quality rules, anomaly detection, and monitoring protocols.
Manage data cataloging, sensitivity classification, and end-to-end lineage tracking for all data assets.
Represent the data governance function in executive forums and strategic working groups to drive alignment.
Provide oversight for vendors and initiatives supporting enterprise data governance priorities and investment decisions.
What we're looking for
A bachelor's degree or master's 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 is required.
Deep expertise with data governance and cataloging platforms (e.g., Alation, Collibra) and Master Data Management (MDM) platforms (e.g., Reltio, Informatica) is required.
Advanced knowledge of conceptual and logical data modeling, business glossaries, data lineage, and semantic layer design is required.
Strong proficiency in SQL for data profiling, querying, and quality assessment is required.
A solid understanding of cloud data ecosystems (Snowflake, AWS, Azure) is required.
Proven ability to author enterprise data standards and communicate complex architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders is required.
Prior experience in the Pharma/Life Sciences industry is preferred.
Data Governance
Master Data Management
SQL
Snowflake
AWS
Azure
Alation
Collibra
Reltio
Informatica
Data Lineage
Data Quality
Business Architecture
Data Profiling
Conceptual and Logical Data Modeling
Data Governance
Master Data Management
SQL
Snowflake
AWS
Azure
Alation
Collibra
Reltio
Informatica
Data Lineage
Data Quality
Business Architecture
Data Profiling
Snowflake
Data Strategy
Data Governance
Metadata Management
Business Intelligence
Data Product Management
UAT
AI
Cloud Data Platforms
Data Quality
Source-to-Target Mapping
Analytics Enablement
Data Governance
FAIR Data Principles
Active Metadata
Data Quality
Data Catalog
Knowledge Graphs
Databricks Unity Catalog
Collibra
Reltio
SciBite
TopQuadrant
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Ontologies
Policy-as-Code
Databricks Unity Catalog
Collibra
Informatica
Snowflake
Alteryx
Generative AI
Artificial Intelligence
Data Lineage
Metadata Management
Data Quality
Workflow Automation
Data Governance
Data Architecture