We are seeking a Data Steward & a Business Data Owner to support a growing portfolio of data-driven R&D initiatives. This role will sit within the centralized Research Data Standards & Governance team and work closely with Data Modeling teams in the Technology (IT) organization to define data requirements and ensure alignment between governance standards and technical implementation.
The Data Steward is responsible for establishing and maintaining data standards, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies, ensuring semantic alignment across enterprise research datasets and enabling scalable, high-quality data use.
The Business Data Owner is accountable for data lifecycle oversight, governance enforcement, and approval of harmonization outcomes, ensuring that research data remains fit-for-purpose, compliant, and scalable across evolving use cases.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Science (with strong life-sciences focus), or a related field.
- Hands-on experience with data stewardship and/or data governance concepts (e.g., stewardship operating model, data quality, metadata, ownership, and standards).
- Experience working with data standards, ontologies, vocabularies, or controlled terminologies in a research or life-sciences setting.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically google cloud.
- Understanding of multi-omics data types and workflows (e.g., genetics, transcriptomics/gene expression) and how sample/assay metadata ties to experimental outputs.
- Working knowledge of data modeling and structuring datasets for analysis and reuse.