Senior Principal, Platform Engineering

Senior Principal Platform Engineer (AI Next Frontier (AINF) Workbench)

• Define and evolve the AINF Workbench technical architecture.
• Set engineering strategy for shared services, gateway services, and runtime capabilities to scale adoption.
• Build foundational frameworks, SDKs, APIs, and developer platforms for Workbench adoption.
• Lead reusable agent frameworks, skills definition, and agent integration strategies.
• Establish standards for MCP, A2A, and A2UI interoperability.
• Create a shared catalog of reusable AI services, tools, agents, and business capabilities.
• Partner with AI Core teams to implement governed agent execution, observability, security, discoverability, and platform operations.
• Ensure interoperability with the broader J&J enterprise ecosystem via APIs and standardized platform contracts.
• Define quality metrics (reuse, adoption, reliability, release velocity, productivity, AI effectiveness).
• Build the organization to support the long-term roadmap (AI channels, AI production, autonomous execution, enterprise expansion).

• 10+ years software engineering for enterprise-scale digital products/platforms/distributed systems.
• 7+ years as lead architect/principal engineer/engineering lead for platform strategy.
• 2+ years developing/using AI agents and orchestration.
• Platform modernization + enterprise engineering standards.
• Reusable platforms/frameworks/SDKs/developer ecosystems (not standalone apps).
• Regulated/complex enterprise experience.
• Cloud-native AWS + modern cloud app development (Type Script, NodeJS, NestJS, React/NextJS, GraphQL, REST, SSR/SSG/CSR).
• AWS services: API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, EC2, SNS/SQS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, IAM, Secrets Manager.
• Enterprise AI ecosystems: LLM integrations, multi-agent systems, orchestration, RAG, tool-calling, context engineering, AI observability/governance, A2A workflows, MCP.
• Hands-on Git/Jenkins/Terraform/Kubernetes/Docker/IaC + platform observability.
• Deep XENA platform knowledge.

• Pharmaceutical/healthcare/regulated industry experience.
• Enterprise agent platforms;
  Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
• Reusable enterprise SDKs/framework libraries.
• Influencing senior executives; leading organizational transformation.

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short/long-term disability, business accident, group legal; 401(k) and pension; vacation, sick time, holiday pay, parental leave, condolence, caregiver, volunteer, military spouse time off.

$137,000–$236,325.