Transcend: Engineering Systems Lead

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

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Automation Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Transcend: Engineering Systems Lead to join our team. This is an onsite role located in Raritan, NJ.

Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains.

This program will simplify the Pharmaceutical ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharmaceutical business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

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Summary

The Engineering Systems Lead will serve as the System Lead for all engineering systems (including, but not limited to, Kneat, Engineering Repository, IBM Maximo, and related applications). This role owns technical and functional governance, leads upgrades and integrations, verifies data integrity, and conducts system and process audits to maintain GxP and organizational compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the System Lead and single point of accountability for GxP and engineering platforms, including Kneat, IBM Maximo (CMMS/AMS), and Engineering Repository systems

• Own the end‑to‑end system lifecycle, from business requirements definition through validation, release, and ongoing operation

• Define, maintain, and manage system requirements and specifications with full traceability from business need through testing and deployment

• Plan and oversee system upgrades, patches, and new deployments, including impact assessments, UAT strategy, data migration, cutover, and rollback planning

• Lead Computer Systems Validation (CSV) activities in accordance with GAMP® 5 and quality system expectations, ensuring systems remain in a validated state

• Establish and enforce data integrity and data quality controls, including master data governance, migration validation, and reconciliation activities

• Approve and oversee data migration strategies, including mapping, transformation, loading, and verification

• Coordinate and support system integrations and interfaces, working closely