Manager Technical Platform Management

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:
Technical Product Management

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Manager Technical Platform Management to be located in either Raritan, NJ, Springhouse, PA or Beerse, Belgium

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

Raritan, NJ, Springhouse, PA, Beerse, Belgium

Raritan, NJ - Requisition Number: R-104336

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

Job Description

About the Job:

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Description:

Innovative Medicine Research & Development, a Johnson & Johnson company, is recruiting for a IT Platform Manager, R&D Advanced Computing, Digital Imaging Technologies.  This position will be located in Raritan, NJ; Spring House, PA; or Beerse, BE; or can also be Fully Remote.

The R&D Advanced Computing team is part of a broader R&D Engineering organization that works on leading-edge technology solutions to drive the Innovative Medicine R&D business. R&D Advanced Computing is made up of a group of technical engineers and solution architects engaged in the hands-on delivery of business solutions. Team members typically work directly with business partners in delivering solutions. The team prides itself on being closely involved in all aspects of deployments, including assisting with defining business value propositions and user story collections, designing robust solution architectures and implementing the technical solutions. Our mission is to architect, design and implement the best technology to deliver high performing, scalable, reusable and cost optimized solutions across the IM R&D organization, enabling opportunities and significant business value that could not have been accomplished before, accelerating medicine to patients who are waiting.

The IT Platform Manager, R&D Advanced Computing will be a part of this team, providing technology and organizational leadership, driving programs, assessing and influencing technology strategy roadmaps, being at the table with business partners, and delivering solutions to drive the overall Digital Imaging ecosystem and related disciplines.

Key Responsibilities :

- Be a key contributor in setting strategy/roadmaps, as well as lead and implement technology deployments to business partners in all areas of Digital Imaging, including but not limited to Digital Pathology, Digital Radiology and Clinical Imaging
- Maintain strong partnerships with business partners in Pre-Clinical Sciences & Translational Safety, Oncology, Neuroscience, Immunology, Data Sciences, Molecular Imaging and others based on incoming demand
- Identify and assess areas of greatest opportunity and impact for Digital Imaging technology platforms in pharmaceutical research and development at Innovative Medicine, creation and delivery of success measures, and execution of Digital Imaging platforms capabilities
- Collaborate with numerous groups across the IT organization, engage and influence in sector and enterprise technology leadership, as well as partner externally with the Life Sciences industry Imaging community
- Drive the team's technology stack, including capabilities for scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, alerting, deployment, orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure, reuse and reproducibility
- Leverage the unique capabilities of cloud computing to deliver effective solutions
- Establish long term sustainable operational processing and resource models
- Stay abreast of the rapidly changing technology landscape and incorporate technologies such as containerization, serverless and accelerated AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Agentic AI as appropriate to deliver business value
- Exhibit capable and authentic leadership to learn from, develop, support, and motivate their direct reports and their broader team

Qualifications

Required:

- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 6 years of industry experience; OR a Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 4 years of industry experience
- Proven ability to lead teams, programs, projects and apply business acumen to create new opportunities
- Experience with AWS EC2 and S3
- Experience with functionality of Windows platforms
- Experience with vendor management
- Experience working on cross functional and global teams
- Experience working in a fast-paced collaborative environment

Preferred:

- Experience with visualization technologies and techniques
- Experience with Python, Java, C++, or related complex programming language
- Experience with functionality of Linux platforms
- Familiarity with imaging technologies such as a PACS or similar image management solution, and/or related image analysis technologies

- Experience working with Agile methodology

Bonus:

- Experience working with Chef for configuration management
- Experience with container functionality (Docker/Singularity/Kubernetes) and AWS EKS
- Experience with GPUs for areas such as computational sciences, advanced AI / ML / Deep Learning image analysis and predictive model training
- Experience working with high performance storage solutions
- Experience implementing GxP projects

- Experience with AWS RDS

- Experience with AWS Lambda
- Experience working with High Performance Computing cluster technologies (e.g., Grid Engine, Slurm)
- Experience with other major cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine

- Experience with advanced functionality of Windows platforms

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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, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Consulting, Cost Management, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Resource Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Team Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:
€79,800.00 - €137,770.00

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.