Senior Director, Immunology Data & AI Systems
About The Position
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. Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior Director, Immunology Data & AI Systems to join our Immunology R&D Data Science & Digital Health team (DSDH). This role will accelerate Immunology Research and Development (R&D) by advancing the utility of data through AI. This position will be located on site at one of our offices in either Spring House PA, Cambridge MA, Titusville NJ, Raritan NJ, or San Diego CA (NO fully remote option available). We are recruiting for a Senior Director, Immunology Data & AI Systems. This role will accelerate Immunology Research and Development (R&D) by advancing the utility of data through AI. The primary location for this position is flexible – either Cambridge MA, Spring House PA, New Brunswick, NJ or Titusville, NJ. Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine develops treatments that improve the health and lifestyles of people worldwide. Research and Development areas encompass Oncology, Cardiovascular and Metabolic disorders, Immunology, Neuroscience, and Infectious diseases. Our ultimate goal is to help people live longer, healthier lives. We have produced and marketed many first-in-class prescription medications and are poised to serve the broad needs of the healthcare market – from patients to practitioners and from clinics to hospitals.
Requirements
- Advanced degree (PhD) in disciplines such as Computer Science, AI/ML, Engineering, Biomedical engineering, Applied Mathematics or similar.
- Minimum of 10 years of post-academic, industry, or equivalent, experience.
- Experience with diverse, high dimensional data sets, such as multi-modal Immunology data, including omics, imaging, translational, clinical trial, and RWE data
- Extensive experience in creating scalable and impactful data-driven solutions, including managing their full life cycle (design, development, testing, deployment, operations & maintenance, etc.).
- Strong experience in people leadership, and ability to work in a matrixed organization
- Deep knowledge of data products, database design, data transformation/mapping
- Excellent communication skills and strategic thinking capabilities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical or Medical Tech sector.
- Experience with Immunology Ontology enterprise metadata standards and external frameworks (e.g. CDISC, GA4GH, FHIR, NCI Thesaurus)
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive adoption of new data capabilities across a complex organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team to develop technical requirements for Immunology-facing data products that enable AI applications.
- Attract, upskill and retain top talents in the field, manage a technical team, and collaborate with key stakeholders in R&D, DSDH, and Johnson & Johnson Technology (JJT).
- Define and maintain a roadmap for Immunology data products, spanning discovery, translational research, clinical development, and real-world evidence.
- Partner with Knowledge Management, Data Platforms & Governance, and Master Data Management teams to ensure Immunology data products integrate seamlessly into enterprise ontologies, knowledge graphs, and catalogs.
- Lead a team that works with key business partners to develop and deploy impactful and scalable AI solutions for Immunology.
- Contribute to the development and governance of an Immunology Ontology to enable semantic consistency across discovery, clinical, regulatory, and real-world data.
- Establish and work with governance models, agile delivery processes, and value-tracking metrics for Immunology data products and AI tools.
- Champion data literacy and adoption within the Immunology therapeutic area (TA).
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
- consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
- 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
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
