Principal Data Engineer, Biologics Discovery

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Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan New Jersey United States of America Spring House Pennsylvania United States of America Titusville New Jersey United States of America

Job Description:

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 the opportunity

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Principal Data Engineer dedicated to our Biologics Discovery organization. This is a high-leverage role responsible for shaping how discovery data is structured connected and made AI-ready across Biologics Discovery. The role serves as the bridge between scientific workflows data consumers and technology partners ensuring that discovery data products support scientific research analytics machine learning and agentic workflows.

This position will be based at one of our office locations in either Spring House PA (strongly preferred) Titusville NJ or Raritan NJ. (No remote option.)

Why this role matters:
High-quality well-governed scientific data is foundational to our vision for AI-enabled biologics discovery. This role provides senior technical leadership within Biologics Discovery translating scientific needs into data products scientific data models and requirements and working with enterprise data and technology partners to ensure discovery data is trusted connected and AI-ready as the broader ecosystem evolves.

Position Summary

As a Principal Data Engineer you will lead the design of discovery data products scientific data models (schemas entities and relationships) and integration requirements that enable discovery data to be acquired connected harmonized and delivered across the Biologics Discovery ecosystem. You will work closely with scientists and AI/ML teams to translate their needs into durable reusable and AI-ready data assets.

Working in close partnership with enterprise Data Strategy & Products and Technology teams you will ensure discovery data needs are represented in enterprise standards and that those standards are effectively applied within Biologics Discovery. You will help shape the future-state discovery data ecosystem while delivering near-term value through trusted data products harmonized data and metadata practices that support long-term interoperability and reuse.

Key Responsibilities

Discovery Data Products & Integration

• Design and deliver AI-ready discovery data products that support ML AI and insight generation across Biologics Discovery applying agile delivery practices to respond to evolving scientific needs.
• Define and lead the delivery of scalable integration requirements transformation patterns and data schemas that support discovery data acquisition harmonization and downstream analytics working with scientific data and technology stakeholders to enable reliable data exchange across systems.
• Translate scientific and analytical requirements from discovery teams into data product specifications data contracts acceptance criteria and delivery requirements in partnership with scientists AI/ML teams and technology partners.
• Define access and data consumption patterns that enable analytics modeling and agentic AI workflows aligned with industry data standards and frameworks.
• Catalog discovery instruments data types and data sources to inform data product prioritization and sustainable integration approaches.

Data Stewardship & Organizational Impact

• Establish champion and drive adoption of standards and best practices for discovery data products including data quality provenance lineage reproducibility metadata and documentation.
• Partner with ontology data architecture platform and AI teams to ensure discovery data products are connected discoverable and suitable for advanced analytics ML and agentic AI applications.
• Apply FAIR data principles so data products are reusable scalable and interoperable.
• Serve as a thought leader in scientific data architecture harmonization and AI-ready data practices across the organization.

Qualifications:

Required

• Degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering or a related computational field.
• 8 years (Bachelors) 5 years (Masters) or 3 years (Ph.D.) of experience designing and delivering data products data models and analytics-ready datasets within pharmaceutical biotechnology or life sciences organizations.
• Deep proficiency in Python and SQL with hands-on experience designing and implementing reusable and scalable data assets on cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake AWS Azure BigQuery) to support analytics machine learning and AI-driven workflows.
• Experience applying FAIR data principles metadata management controlled vocabularies data lineage and provenance practices in scientific data environments.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture reviews mentorship code reviews or leadership of complex technical initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional technical initiatives and establish data standards across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong communication and the seniority to represent the team credibly in architecture data and strategy forums.

Preferred

• Prior technical mentorship or leadership responsibilities.
• Experience with ontologies semantic technologies knowledge graphs or ontology-driven data architectures.
• Experience in biologics discovery high-throughput experimentation or external partner (CRO/CDMO) data integration.
• Experience with modern software and data engineering practices including automated testing CI/CD containers orchestration and monitoring.

Why This Role Is Unique

This is a rare opportunity to shape how scientific data powers modern biologics discovery. You will transform complex experimental data into durable governed AI-ready data products and bring the scientific perspective that shapes how enterprise data architectures standards and integration patterns are applied to discovery.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a technical leader and hands-on builder in a pharma or biotech organization. They combine strong data engineering expertise with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries. They can design scalable scientific data products define data schemas champion data standards navigate complex stakeholder interactions deliver high-impact solutions and elevate the capabilities of technical teams through mentorship and example.

This position will be based at one of our office locations in either Spring House PA (strongly preferred) Titusville NJ or Raritan NJ. (No remote option.)

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.

If you are under 18 years of age you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment as well as get a parents consent for the background check.

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.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $117000 to $201250. The Company maintains highly competitive performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporations performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Companys discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be 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.

Employees may be eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay including Floating Holidays up to 13 days per calendar year of Work Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
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