Job Description Summary
Lead cross-domain Data & Platform architecture and semantic architecture to establish consistent, trusted, reusable, and machine-interpretable data across the enterprise. The role defines how business concepts, data entities, relationships, metrics, and policies are represented and connected across domains, platforms, data products, and analytical solutions.
Partner with Enterprise Data Owners, Business Domains, Enterprise Architecture, Data Governance, Platform Engineering, Analytics, and AI teams to translate business needs into conceptual and logical data models, enterprise information models, ontologies, semantic models, knowledge graph patterns, and governed consumption designs.
Provide architecture leadership for the Enterprise Semantic Layer, ensuring that business meaning and context are linked to physical data, metadata, lineage, quality, access policies, and reusable metrics. Enable trusted analytics, GenAI, Agentic AI, knowledge discovery, and cross-domain interoperability while maintaining security, privacy, compliance, and architectural standards.





Job Description
Major Accountabilities
- Define and govern enterprise-wide data, platform, and semantic architecture standards, principles, reference models, and roadmaps aligned to business strategy and target-state architecture.
- Lead the design and maintenance of enterprise information models, conceptual and logical data models, canonical entities, and cross-domain data relationships to ensure consistency and interoperability.
- Establish and evolve the Enterprise Semantic Layer through semantic models, ontologies, taxonomies, knowledge graphs, governed metrics, and reusable business definitions.
- Design AI-ready data and knowledge architectures that enable GenAI, Agentic AI, advanced analytics, RAG, and knowledge-driven decision-making through trusted and governed data assets.
- Drive data modeling, metadata management, data product enablement, and traceability across business co

📌 Associate Director (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad