Head of Technology- Systems & Engineering

Head of Technology- Systems & Engineering

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Job Function: Marketing Job Sub Function: Product Management Job Category: Professional 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:

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

About Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D

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.

Role Summary

The Head of Technology, Cross R&D Systems is a senior technology leader responsible for defining, operating, and modernizing the shared technology platforms and products that enable end-to-end Innovative Medicine R&D. This role leads cross-functional platforms/products spanning R&D finance and planning, data, AI and compute, enterprise tools, software engineering capabilities, cloud optimization, operations, reliability, and product lifecycle management.

The role partners across R&D product lines, Technology Services, Information Security & Risk Management, Finance, Data Science, Engineering, Architecture, and business leadership to ensure shared products & platforms are secure, scalable, reliable, cost-effective, and aligned to enterprise standards. The leader will set a clear vision, build and empower a large global team, strengthen cross-regional ways of working, and drive consistent governance, operational excellence, lifecycle discipline, and value realization across cross-R&D products and enabling platforms.

This role is accountable for ensuring the Cross R&D technology portfolio improves productivity, accelerates delivery, enables AI-ready capabilities, strengthens security integration, reduces technical debt, and supports the evolving needs of Discovery, Development, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Safety, and R&D operations.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, test automation, release management, and engineering productivity capabilities.

• Establish service-level objectives, operational metrics, incident management practices, and continuous improvement routines across critical platforms.

• Reduce operational risk and technical debt through proactive modernization, automation, monitoring, and lifecycle discipline.

• Technology and Security Integration

• Serve as the primary Cross R&D interface with Technology Services and Information Security & Risk Management for infrastructure, security, risk, and enterprise technology enablement.

• Embed secure-by-design practices into platform architecture, engineering, operations, and release processes.

• Coordinate security assessments, risk remediation, infrastructure dependencies, identity/access patterns, resilience requirements, and compliance obligations.

• Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise security standards, privacy expectations, regulatory requirements, and business continuity needs.

• Drive timely resolution of cross-platform risks, vulnerabilities, audit findings, and technology dependencies.

• Enterprise Tools, Standards and Governance Enforcement

• Define and enforce adoption of enterprise tools, engineering standards, architecture patterns, operational controls, and governance processes across Cross R&D products.

• Partner with enterprise architecture, engineering, quality, security, and product leadership to standardize delivery practices and reduce one-off solutions.

• Build governance mechanisms that improve transparency, decision quality, standards adherence, technology lifecycle discipline, and risk management.

• Track compliance to standards, platform health, adoption, dependency management, and value realization through clear KPIs and executive reporting.

• Promote reuse of enterprise services and shared capabilities to improve speed, consistency, cost efficiency, and supportability.

• Cross R&D Product Portfolio Management

• Lead the Cross R&D product portfolio, including strategy, roadmap prioritization, funding alignment, delivery oversight, and stakeholder engagement.

• Manage product teams delivering shared capabilities used by multiple R&D functions, ensuring strong user experience, service quality, and business value.

• Translate cross-functional needs into scalable technology capabilities with clear outcomes, adoption targets, and measurable benefits.

• Ensure predictable delivery through strong portfolio governance, agile/product operating practices, vendor management, and financial discipline.

• Partner with business and technology leaders to balance innovation, operational stability, modernization, and portfolio affordability.

• Lead, coach, and develop a large, globally distributed team of technology leaders, product managers, engineers, a