IT Lead - Functional 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 jnj.com

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Functional Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for an IT Lead – Functional Engineering role to be located in New Brunswick, NJ, or surrounding J&J office locations in New Jersey. This position is within the Technology Services Legal product group in Johnson & Johnson Technology.

Role Summary

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. That’s why for more than 135 years, we have aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Today, as the world’s largest and most broadly based healthcare company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body, and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere.

Every day, our more than 140,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

As digital leaders, we shape J&J to lead in digital technology – savvy and capable of fulfilling its promise. The technology we are responsible for delivering fuels J&J as we strive to change the trajectory of health for humanity.

This role reports into the Senior IT Manager for the legal product area and joins the existing delivery/build teams to lead Enterprise Legal Engineering capabilities in a highly regulated healthcare environment. The individual will be responsible for designing and building secure, scalable, and integrated solutions and/or enhancements to various Legal products, most specifically the Litify Enterprise Legal Management product.

As the Functional Engineering Lead, you will work closely with business and technology product owners (BPO & TPO) leaders across Enterprise Legal, and other IT areas to deliver and improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Delivery

• Collaborate with Enterprise Legal Product and Business Technology leaders to prioritize investments that maximize customer and business value into clear technical roadmaps, delivery plans, and reliable solutions.
• Use data and insights to drive measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Utilize Agile methodology to deliver product backlog, including managing demand prioritizing, and executing IT capabilities.
• Ensure squads/scrum teams are operating according to agreed upon agile practices established by the teams and JNJ Software Development Lifecycle methodology.
• Perform or provide input into operational evaluations to ensure efficiencies are identified for improving operations.
• Leverage proven experience in leading or participating in global Agile Scrum/Squad delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrate Experience and applicable knowledge of all aspects of the product development lifecycle as well as Agile methodology.
• Demonstrate experience in using companion toolsets such as Jira, Confluence, X-Ray Testing framework, and Bitbucket.

Engineering, Architecture & Operations

• Drive and lead scalable Legal product solutions, partnering with different Business and IT peers to support Business needs across regions and internal system integrations.
• Participate in end‑to‑end integration architecture design sessions, leveraging API‑first guiding principles, event‑driven, and microservices‑based patterns.
• Ensure that security and technical architecture are in line with the overall Business needs and strategy work with architecture teams.
• Provide Salesforce technical expertise throughout entire Design Lifecycle including architecture reviews, design sessions, POCs, and complex issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Application support team, providing resolutions to critical issues, and assisting them on the issues that are beyond their expertise.

AI & Innovation

• Derive and lead Innovation with agentic AI platforms or architecting AI-assisted automation or orchestration for integrations.
• Design and Implement IA workflows that combine Robotic Process Automation, cognitive services, and APIs to incorporate into end-to-end business processes.
• Proactively identify, research, and experiment with innovative technical solutions for various business challenges brought up by TPO (Technical Product Owner)/ PA (Product Analyst).
• Practice on-going upskilling thru continuous learning and evaluation of emerging AI tools and platforms.

Vendor, Financial & Portfolio Management

• Own vendor performance, contracts, SLAs, financials, & statements of work for Dev Ops Vendors.
• Align internal roadmaps with vendor roadmaps to maximize value and reduce risk.
• Manage budgeting, financial planning, and cost optimization as it relates to delivery of technology services.

Regulatory, Security & Compliance

• Ensure Legal platforms meet healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements (GxP, SOX, HIPAA, Privacy, GDPR).
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure controls, audits, and risk mitigation.
• Balance speed, innovation, and risk in a regulated enterprise environment.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, related STEM field or practical work experience equivalence.
• 5+ years of IT experience, including 2-3 years in Salesforce, API Integration development, Integration patterns, and complex SQL queries.
• Hands‑on experience with Salesforce Product development, security, and configuration.
• Development exposure to modern integration and cloud architectures (APIs, event‑driven systems, middleware, SAP BTP-IS).
• Practical experience delivering Agentic AI solutions.
• Security & privacy: knowledge secure model data flows, encryption, identity/access, and knowledge of data privacy regulations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, both Business and Technology facing.
• Demonstrable experience delivering work products for an integration area, platform, or significant solution, ideally though the use of AI or other agentic solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in solutioning and supporting API and file-based integrations.
• Integration and orchestration experience: APIs, message queues, workflow engines, and RPA Tools.
• Strong Python (or similar) skillset; experience with cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), containers, Kubernetes.
• Experience with 3rd-party external resource onboarding and work order management.
• Practical experience working in a healthcare or regulated life sciences.

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Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Capacity Leveling, Collaboration, Consulting, Contingency Planning, Controls Compliance, Critical Thinking, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM), Management Systems Implementation, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Software Development Management, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility, Technical Development, Technical Writing, Technologically Savvy

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $94,000- $151,800

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours Additional information can be found through the link below.