Head of Technology- Systems & Engineering

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Job Title Head of Technology - Systems & Engineering ( Sr. Director) Location Titusville, NJ
• Raritan, NJ
• Spring House, PA Reports To Head of Technology, Innovative Medicine R&D Division / Department Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D Technology Travel 15–20% domestic and international

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is dedicated to advancing transformative therapies and accelerating scientific breakthroughs that improve human health. Through the convergence of science, data, AI, and technology, we enable the discovery, development, and delivery of innovative medicines that address critical unmet patient needs. The Technology organization serves as a strategic partner to R&D, providing modern platforms, architectures, data capabilities, and digital services that accelerate innovation, strengthen operational excellence, and create competitive advantage across the pharmaceutical value chain.

• R&D Finance and Planning Platforms
  · Define and execute the technology strategy and product roadmap for R&D finance, portfolio planning, resource planning, investment management, forecasting, and performance management platforms.
• Partner with R&D Finance, portfolio leaders, product teams, and business operations to modernize planning workflows and improve decision transparency.
• Enable integrated views of spend, capacity, portfolio priorities, value realization, and investment tradeoffs across R&D.
• Drive platform simplification, data quality, automation, and usability improvements to increase adoption and reduce manual work.
• Ensure planning platforms are interoperable with broader enterprise finance, portfolio, workforce, and data ecosystems.
• R&D Data, AI and Compute Platforms
  · Lead shared data, AI, analytics, and compute platform capabilities that support cross-R&D use cases and product teams.
• Partner with Data & AI, architecture, engineering, scientific computing, and business teams to provide scalable, secure, and reusable platform services.
• Enable AI-ready data capabilities, compute environments, model development workflows, and governed access to high-quality data assets.
• Drive adoption of modern cloud, data engineering, AI/ML operations, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Optimize compute consumption, storage, performance, and cost while ensuring fit-for-purpose capabilities for scientific and operational workloads.
• Operations, Reliability, Software and Cloud Optimization
  · Own operational excellence for Cross R&D technology products and platforms, including reliability, observability, resiliency, performance, and service management.
• Drive software and cloud optimization programs focused on cost efficiency, technical health, scalability, capacity management, and measurable value realization.
• Advance SDLC automation, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, test automation, release…