Senior Director, Application and Platform Engineering

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:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

The Senior Director is a visionary leader who will oversee and manage J&J Technology Services’ Application Development practice.  In this strategically critical role, the leader will drive a holistic technical engineering vision with software engineering excellence and clear technical direction to ensure alignment with critical business product goals while also fostering a culture of quality, innovation and excellence within the development community.  

Subset of responsibilities: 

• Create an Application Development vision and strategy that is anchored with a comprehensive technology roadmap while also ensuring ongoing technical skills development of the aligned engineering team members within direct and indirect reporting structures.  The vision and strategy focus must have a view of technology trends, emerging capabilities and other innovation to ensure a view into new frameworks and technologies.  Together these aspects will drive end-to-end software engineering excellence. 

• Define and execute the application development strategy in partnership with peer functions across TS by ensuring it aligns with HPT G&Os and technology roadmaps, including evaluation of new external technology and consideration within the tech stack, development of white papers as necessary and incorporation into our TS service catalog. 

• Build and implement strong focus and execution of an AI-enabled SDLC process (with engagement and collaboration from the AI Council) 

• Lead, develop, manage and mentor team of software engineers fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture that emphasizes technical excellence, continuous improvement and innovation 

• Collaborate with cross functional leaders to ensure seamless integration of applications with existing systems and infrastructure 

• Utilize data-driven decision making to inform architectural decisions and optimize application performance in conjunction with the software engineering and application development process 

• Drive the identification and adoption of modern development methodologies and practices, including Agile, DevOps, Generative AI, code generation, test automation and CI/CD pipelines to enhance productivity, enable secure by design and reusability of assets, and reduce time-to-market 

• Partner within and outside TS to manage relationships with key stakeholders to align priorities and resource allocation 

• Build an enterprise Software Engineering / Application Development Community of Practice to reinforce software engineering and testing