Staff Data Engineer

Staff Data Engineer

Orthopedics Supply Chain is recruiting for a Staff Data Engineer located in Raynham, MA; Raritan, NJ; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Mooresville, IN; Warsaw IN; Cork, IE.

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.

What's in it for you?

In this role, you will play a pivotal technical leadership role in building the modern data foundation that powers digital products across the Orthopaedics Supply Chain. You will help design lakehouse architecture on Databricks and AWS while enabling governed, reusable, business-ready data products for analytics, reporting, AI, and operational decision-making.

The role suits an expert professional who can lead across solution architecture, pipeline design, engineering standards, and cross-team delivery. You will work closely with Product Owners, business teams, data engineers, machine learning teams, and external delivery partners to turn business problems into practical technical solutions and executable plans.

You will also help advance modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, reusable patterns, data quality automation, and observability. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact if hands-on architecture and solving complex data challenges at scale are what energize you.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the Data Foundation initiative to modernize the enterprise data ecosystem through lakehouse architecture and cloud platform capabilities.
• Design complex data pipelines, integration patterns, and architecture using Databricks, AWS, Python, SQL, Spark, and Delta Lake.
• Turn business requirements and technical challenges into architecture decisions, implementation plans, and reusable patterns.
• Develop blueprints for batch, streaming, and event-driven pipelines that support analytics, BI, AI/ML, and digital product use cases.
• Partner with Product Owners, Supply Chain teams, data governance, AI and ML groups, and IT partners to align delivery with measurable business outcomes.
• Lead architecture and design discussions, ensuring solutions meet standards for scalability, reliability, quality, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Break down large initiatives into work packages, user stories, and acceptance criteria for internal engineers and external contractors.
• Coordinate contractor and vendor execution by assigning work, reviewing deliverables, and providing technical direction.
• Set clear standards for data modeling, modularity, reuse, automated testing, CI/CD, data quality, observability, lineage, and operational support.
• Lead hands-on development and technical reviews with Databricks, PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, SQL, dbt, and orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering to improve quality, documentation, testing, and delivery velocity.
• Mentor engineers and contractors through design and code reviews and architecture guidance (no direct people-management responsibility).
• Contribute to technical governance forums, architecture standards, and operating-model practices that improve consistency and reuse.

Qualifications

Education: A minimum of a Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent University degree is required; a focused degree in in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.

• Minimum four (4) years of relevant professional work experience.
• Experience in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering (consistent with J&J leveling).
• Strong hands-on experience across Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, SQL, and Delta Lake.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud data services; Azure experience desirable.
• Proven expertise in modern data and lakehouse architecture, enterprise data platforms, dimensional modeling, and pipeline design.
• Experience designing batch, real-time, and event-based processing for enterprise-scale workloads.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git-based development, automated testing, deployment patterns, and production support.
• Proven skill in converting business needs into architecture, user stories, and executable delivery plans.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate distributed engineering teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills across technical, product, and business audiences.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, or enterprise BI platforms.
• Knowledge of workflow automation tools (e.g., Power Automate, Blue Prism, UiPath, or Amazon Quick Flows).

Leadership Competencies

• Technical leadership with the ability to influence without formal authority.
• Effective in a results-focused, product-centric way of working.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills.
• Proven skill in shaping complex architectures into executable plans and manageable work packages.
• Strong sense of ownership, focused on standardization, engineering excellence, and measurable impact.
• Ability to balance hands-on engineering depth with architecture guidance and cross-team leadership.

This position may require up to 10% domestic and international travel.

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, external applicants please contact us via internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills: Advanced Analytics, Agility Jumps, Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Critical Thinking, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Modeling, Data Privacy Standards, Data Quality, Data Science, Hybrid Clouds, Motivating People, Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Technologically Savvy

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $94,000.00 - $151,800.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency: 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)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program. 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 Colorado –48 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 Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: -