Manager Technical Platform Management

Johnson & Johnson•Raritan, NJ

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About The Position

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Research & Development is hiring a technical platform manager for its R&D Advanced Computing team. The team develops and delivers technology solutions for the Innovative Medicine R&D organization, working directly with business partners across solution planning, architecture, and implementation. Its mission is to provide high-performing, scalable, reusable, and cost-optimized technology that creates business value and helps accelerate medicines to patients. The role provides technology and organizational leadership for Digital Imaging and related disciplines. The manager contributes to strategy and roadmaps, leads technology deployments, partners with business groups and technology teams, and guides the development and operation of the team’s technology platforms. The role may be based in Raritan, New Jersey; Spring House, Pennsylvania; or Beerse, Belgium, and may also be fully remote.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or a related field and at least 6 years of industry experience; or a master’s degree in one of these fields and at least 4 years of industry experience.
Proven ability to lead teams, programs, and projects, and apply business acumen to create new opportunities.
Experience with AWS EC2 and S3.
Experience with Windows platform functionality.
Experience with vendor management.
Experience working on cross-functional and global teams.
Experience working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with visualization technologies and techniques.
Experience with Python, Java, C++, or a related complex programming language.
Experience with Linux platform functionality.
Familiarity with imaging technologies such as PACS or similar image-management solutions, and/or related image-analysis technologies.
Experience working with Agile methodology.
Experience with Chef for configuration management.
Experience with container functionality, including Docker, Singularity, or Kubernetes, and AWS EKS.
Experience with GPUs for computational sciences, advanced AI/ML/deep-learning image analysis, and predictive-model training.
Experience working with high-performance storage solutions.
Experience implementing GxP projects.
Experience with AWS RDS or AWS Lambda.
Experience with high-performance computing cluster technologies such as Grid Engine or Slurm.
Experience with other major cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine.
Experience with advanced Windows platform functionality.

Responsibilities

Contribute to Digital Imaging strategy and roadmaps, and lead and implement technology deployments for business partners, including in Digital Pathology, Digital Radiology, and Clinical Imaging.
Maintain partnerships with business groups including Pre-Clinical Sciences & Translational Safety, Oncology, Neuroscience, Immunology, Data Sciences, and Molecular Imaging.
Identify opportunities and potential impact for Digital Imaging technology platforms in pharmaceutical R&D; create and deliver success measures and execute platform capabilities.
Collaborate across the IT organization, influence sector and enterprise technology leadership, and partner with the external Life Sciences imaging community.
Drive the team's technology stack and capabilities for scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, alerting, deployment, orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure, reuse, and reproducibility.
Use cloud computing capabilities to deliver effective solutions.
Establish sustainable long-term operational processing and resource models.
Monitor changes in technology and incorporate technologies such as containerization, serverless computing, and accelerated AI, machine learning, deep learning, or agentic AI where appropriate to deliver business value.
Lead, develop, support, and motivate direct reports and the broader team.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance, subject to plan terms.
Company consolidated retirement plan (pension) and 401(k) savings plan, subject to plan terms.
Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year, subject to policy and date of hire.
Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year; 56 hours for employees residing in Washington State, subject to policy and date of hire.
Holiday pay, including floating holidays: 13 days per calendar year.
Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.
Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of a child's birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
Condolence Leave: 30 days for an immediate family member and 5 days for an extended family member.
Caregiver Leave: 10 days.
Volunteer Leave: 4 days.
Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours.