Lead, Data Product Management – Governance

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The Lead, Data Product Management - Governance will drive the hands-on delivery, adoption, and governance of data products across Johnson & Johnson MedTech Digital Solutions. This individual ensures data products are well-defined, discoverable, trusted, and aligned with business priorities, enterprise data standards, and applicable regulatory expectations, while partnering closely with business owners, technology teams, governance partners, and data engineering.

Duties & Responsibilities

Implement and enforce data product governance, including ownership, stewardship, lifecycle controls, and metadata standards.

Elicit, clarify, and prioritize business data requirements and translate them into clear acceptance criteria and product specs.

Support implementation by working with data engineering to validate designs, transformations, pipelines, and SLAs.

Maintain and improve the data catalog, business glossaries, and metadata so entries are consistent, discoverable, and consumer ready.

Define, monitor, and manage data quality rules, coordinate issue triage, and drive remediation with owners and stewards.

Coordinate with architecture, privacy, legal, regulatory, records management, and security to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.

Create playbooks, runbooks, onboarding materials, and training to drive adoption and sustain repeatable operating processes.

Act as a subject-matter expert and mentor to promote governance best practices and support data stewards.

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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/ (https://www.jnj.com/

The Lead, Data Product Management - Governance will support the delivery, adoption, and governance of data products across Johnson & Johnson MedTech Digital Solutions. This role will ensure data products are well-defined, discoverable, trusted, and aligned to business priorities, enterprise data standards, and applicable regulatory expectations.

The position partners closely with business collaborators, data owners, technology teams, governance partners, and data engineering teams to translate business needs into clear data product requirements.

This role will advance consistent data product practices, strengthen data transparency, and support balanced operating models enabling compliant, scalable, and business-relevant use of data.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Data Product Governance: Execute and operationalize governance practices, including ownership/stewardship assignments, lifecycle controls, metadata standards, and enforcement of policies.

• Business Requirements & Product Enablement: Work with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and prioritize data product requirements; translate outcomes into clear acceptance criteria and delivery-ready documentation.

• Implementation Support: Collaborate with data engineering to review designs, validate transforms, and ensure pipelines deliver to the agreed data contract, quality, and SLA.

• Catalog, Glossary & Metadata Management: Work with data stewards to maintain and improve business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and ensure catalog entries are searchable, consistent, and consumer friendly.

• Data Quality & Stewardship: Coordinate with owners and stewards to define quality rules, implement automated checks, triage data issues, and drive remediation.

• Cross-functional Partnership: Liaise with architecture, privacy, legal, regulatory, records management, and security teams to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.

• Operating Model & Adoption: Create playbooks, runbooks, onboarding materials, and governance forum content; run adoption activities and trainings to embed repeatable operating processes.

• Subject-matter Leadership: Act as the go-to expert for data product governance topics, mentor junior stewards, and influence stakeholders to adopt standards and best practices.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Experience: Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in data product management, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, business analysis, or enterprise data enablement.

• Preferred: Experience in regulated environment such as MedTech, healthcare, pharmaceutical environments or another highly governed industry.

• Technical & Functional Skills: Hands-on familiarity with data catalogs and metadata management, business glossaries, data quality tooling, requirements documentation, and multi-functional delivery practices. Experience with Alation, Collibra, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar platforms is an asset.

• Leadership & Interpersonal Skills: Strong communicator, effective cross-functional influencer, problem-solver, and mentor; demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple workstreams and drive outcomes without direct reports.

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• May require up to 10% domestic and/or international travel based on business needs.

• Role is required to be fully onsite per attendance policy.

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