Senior Director, Immunology Data & AI Systems

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•San Diego, CA

6d•$196,000 - $342,700•Onsite

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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine 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. To learn more about Johnson & Johnson, visit www.jnj.com. About the Role We are seeking a strategic and technical leader to Deliver data products and associated AI applications that are aimed at accelerating the Immunology R&D Pipeline. This role reports through the Research & Development Data Science & Digital Health (DSDH), directly to Vice President, Immunology and Cardiopulmonary, DSDH. They will be tasked with leading a team to accelerate and scale the development of foundational enterprise data products, and deployment of a diverse set of scaled AI models and solutions for the entire Immunology therapy area. This role ensures that high-value internal and external Immunology data assets—including preclinical, translational, clinical, competitive intelligence, and real-world data (RWD/RWE)—are standardized, productized, and integrated into Johnson and Johnson’s enterprise R&D data ecosystem. The position encompasses a horizontal engagement with the Immunology TA as well as teams in R&D Data Science and Digital Health. The successful candidate will be positioned as a senior leader in expanding an Immunology-focused data foundation as well as the technical delivery of associated AI-based tools. This leader will also interact with a wide range of technical partners within R&D as well as senior level stakeholders throughout the company. Also, this person will ensure that Immunology data products and AI solutions will fill business requirements, will be semantically consistent, and interoperable, enabling faster discovery, stronger evidence generation, resulting in better access and use.

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).