Principal Data Scientist - Oncology

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • San Diego, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 jnj.com. As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. Job Function: Data Analytics & Computational Sciences Job Sub Function: Data Science Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America Job Description: Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Principal Data Scientist - Oncology to join our Data Science and Digital Health team (DSDH). This position will be located at one of our offices in either Spring House PA (preferred), Cambridge MA, or San Diego CA (La Jolla area). Consideration may be given for our Titusville and Raritan, NJ locations. The Principal Data Scientist - Oncology, will play a pivotal role to standardize and connect biomedical and clinical data. You will be a hands-on technical contributor with depth in semantic technologies, ontology, and graph data modeling, and strong familiarity with the life sciences domain. You will connect enterprise master data with R&D data across the entire product lifecycle so trusted, interoperable knowledge powers analytics, search, and AI across Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine.

Requirements

• Desired Ph.D. or Master's degree in bioengineering, computer science, IT, bioinformatics, physics, mathematics, or related fields, emphasis on semantic technologies for biomedical application.
• 5+ years professional experience in health informatics.
• Demonstrated experience in large-scale knowledge graphs construction, ontology development, pharmaceutical or healthcare domains integration.
• Programming background in parser combinators, natural language processing, and linked data (RDF Triple Stores and property graphs).
• Proficiency in semantic web technologies (e.g. SPARQL, RDF, OWL), familiarity with graph databases (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune).
• Proven work with complex biomedical datasets (e.g. clinical, genomics, proteomics)
• Proficiency in various data storage solutions (SQL, key-value, column, document, graph stores) and data modeling techniques (semantic data, ontologies, taxonomies).
• Experience in CI/CD implementations, git usage, CI/CD stacks (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps), DevOps tools, metrics/monitoring, and containerization technologies (Docker, Singularity).
• Demonstrated stakeholder management capabilities- including requirements gathering, business analysis and planning.
• Must have the capacity to translate discussions into user requirements and project plans.
• Ability to manage a numerous projects simultaneously, prioritize work, exhibit organizational skills and flexibility to deliver maximum business value.
• Willingness to conduct periodic travel (<15% of time) to conferences and internal meetings.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to the design and implementation of a scalable knowledge graph infrastructure focused on data standardization and interoperability, focusing on Oncology R&D data.
• Apply graph-based data modeling for efficient Oncology R&D organization, integration and retrieval to ensure system flexibility and long-term maintainability.
• Work with a larger community of Data Scientists, Clinical Scientists, and Discovery Scientists to standardize, curate and create AI-Ready datasets.
• Curate and extend ontologies for clear mapping into established biomedical ontologies and controlled terminologies using resource description framework (RDF) standards.
• Work with SPARQL/GraphQL/REST services; develop ingestion and curation pipelines to ingest, normalize and map concepts across data sources.
• Extend and curate Oncology R&D-relevant ontologies (e.g., diseases, drugs, targets, pathways, etc.) and maintain synonyms, cross-references, and provenance.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to enable NLP/RAG over graphs, features for predictive modeling and terminology services for search and study design tools.
• Work with Data Science & Digital Health colleagues, IT and DevOps teams to deploy and manage the graph database infrastructure, focusing on high availability, scalability, and recovery operations specifically geared toward Oncology R&D needs and applications.
• Draft and manage documentation, such as data dictionaries, data lineage, and data flow diagrams, to facilitate understanding of the knowledge graph.

Benefits

• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree