Principal Engr Platform/Cloud Engineering

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

23h•$102,000 - $175,950

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Research & Development is seeking a platform and cloud engineering leader for its R&D Advanced Computing team. The role may be based in Raritan, New Jersey; Spring House, Pennsylvania; Beerse, Belgium; or fully remote. The team delivers technology solutions for the Innovative Medicine R&D organization, partnering directly with business teams to define value and user needs, architect solutions, and implement deployments. Its mission is to deliver high-performing, scalable, reusable, and cost-optimized technology that supports R&D and accelerates medicines to patients. The position provides technology and organizational leadership for Digital Imaging and related disciplines. It contributes to strategy and technology roadmaps, leads programs and deployments, partners with business and IT stakeholders, and guides the team’s technology stack and operational models. The work covers imaging areas such as digital pathology, digital radiology, and clinical imaging, and may incorporate cloud computing, containerization, serverless technologies, and accelerated AI and machine learning where they provide business value.

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.
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.
Vendor management experience.
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 image analysis technologies.
Experience working with Agile methodology.
Experience with Chef for configuration management.
Experience with Docker, Singularity, or Kubernetes container functionality and AWS EKS.
Experience with GPUs for computational sciences, advanced AI, machine learning, deep learning image analysis, or predictive model training.
Experience with high-performance storage solutions.
Experience implementing GxP projects.
Experience with AWS RDS.
Experience with 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 strategy and roadmaps, and lead and implement technology deployments for Digital Imaging, including 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 high-opportunity areas for Digital Imaging technology platforms in pharmaceutical research and development; create and deliver success measures and execute platform capabilities.
Collaborate across IT, influence sector and enterprise technology leadership, and partner with the external Life Sciences industry Imaging community.
Drive the team's technology stack, including scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, alerting, deployment, orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure, reuse, and reproducibility capabilities.
Use cloud computing capabilities to deliver effective solutions.
Establish sustainable long-term operational processing and resource models.
Track changes in technology and apply containerization, serverless, and accelerated AI, machine learning, deep learning, or agentic AI where appropriate to deliver business value.
Provide authentic leadership to develop, support, and motivate direct reports and the broader team.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
Business accident insurance and group legal insurance.
Company retirement plan (pension) and 401(k) savings plan.
Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year.
Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year; 56 hours per calendar year for Washington residents.
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.