Sr Director, R&D Data Science - Head, Data Products & Governance

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM), a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Sr Director, R&D Data Science - Head, Data Products & Governance.  This position has a primary location of Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA, or Cambridge, MA.  The position will require 25% travel. 

 

At J&J IM, what matters most is helping people live full and healthy lives. We focus on treating, curing and preventing some of the most devastating and complex diseases of our time. And we pursue the most promising science, wherever it might be found. J&J IM provides medicines for an array of health concerns in several therapeutic areas, including Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience and Cardiovascular & Metabolism. 

Please visit Please visit https://innovativemedicine.jnj.com/  for more information. for more information. 

 

Job Summary 

The Sr. Director, Data Products & Governance leads the enterprise data foundation that powers J&J’s R&D—from Discovery and Translational through Development, Clinical, and Regulatory. This leader will build and operate the R&D data platform and governance program, develop the operating model, reusable data products (pipelines, features, embeddings), and deliver the controls, lineage, and catalog capabilities that make R&D data trusted, compliant, and AI-ready, while protecting J&J’s proprietary advantage. Managing specialized sub-teams (Data Governance; Solutions Architecture; Vector Data Engineering; Data Integrations & Engineering; Annotation & Cataloging; Compliance), this leader will unify data across domains, scale semantic/knowledge and embedding services, and institutionalize data governance. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide thought leadership, management, and execution of strategic initiatives aimed at integration of data assets across the R&D Data Landscape 

• Establish a strong data governance framework and culture to ensure data integrity, quality, and compliance.  

• Partner with JJIT to map and integrate internal and relevant external data sources in the broader R&D data ecosystem (including Discovery, Development, Regulatory and TAs) into a unified architecture while protecting J&J’s proprietary data 

• Make broader R&D data “AI-ready” through robust data engineering, standardization, and annotation (e.g. using consistent ontologies and data models) 

• Create a sustainable pipeline of data-driven use cases with clear value, prioritized in line with strategic R&D priorities. 

• Build the organizational capabilities (people, process, technology) needed to govern and scale this data strategy across the enterprise 

• Communicate progress, challenges, and achievements to