Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann, United Kingdom
Hybrid
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Job Function:
Technology Product & Platform ManagementJob Sub Function:
Technical Product ManagementJob Category:
Scientific/TechnologyAll Job Posting Locations:
Limerick, IrelandJob Description:
Job Description:
J&J is recruiting for a Lead- Data Automation and Excellence role based in their New Jersey & Ireland locations on hybrid work model.
The Technology Lead, Data Automation and Excellence is a senior individual contributor and technical leader responsible for leading a technology squad in the plan, design, monitor build and operation of high‑quality, scalable, and AI‑ready data assets.
This role provides hands‑on technical leadership, drives automation of curating using AI agents for data management, sets engineering standards within the squad, and ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, platform patterns, and the SDLC toolchain. The Technology Lead combines deep data engineering expertise with strong architectural judgement, mentoring capability, and modern AI for Data management experience and knowledge.
Major Duties & Responsibilities:
Solution Architecture & Technical Enablement
Responsible to drive solution architecture for data across ingestion, curation, and consumption layers.
Guide squad members in problem‑solving complex technical challenges and support implementation of sound, scalable solutions.
Shape technology standards and framework to ensure adherence to coding standards, architectural patterns, and data engineering best practices.
Mentor and coach engineers to raise overall technical maturity and delivery quality within the squad.
Lead the technical design of data assets using a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) working with the Technical Product owners within a federated data product squad model.
Recommend and introduce improved technical approaches to data architecture, modelling tools, and solution design to enhance scalability and maintainability.
Drive technical improvements in data curation practices using Change Data Capture (CDC) and event‑driven curation patterns.
Design and guide implementation of event‑driven and streaming architectures, including Kafka‑based solutions integrated with batch pipelines.
Operational Excellence & SDLC
Improve operational efficiency through optimization of CI/CD pipelines aligned with the enterprise SDLC toolchain.
Promote automation working in partnership with information architects by introducing tools and AI driven capabilities across testing, deployment, data quality validation, and observability to reduce manual effort and operational support risk.
Actively manage and prevent accumulation of technical debt while balancing delivery commitments.
AI Enablement & Data Readiness
Apply data engineering best practices alongside strong AI and GenAI literacy, including:
Prompt engineering and AI‑assisted development
Large Language Models (LLMs) and GenAI concepts
Data profiling and automated asset creation
Collaborate with architects, platform teams, and product owners to ensure data products are designed with AI readiness and reuse in mind.
Other Duties :
Partner with Product Owners to refine technical requirements, define acceptance criteria, and support backlog shaping.
Collaborate with other Lead Engineers to align on standards, manage cross‑squad dependencies, and resolve shared technical challenges.
Stay current with emerging data engineering, streaming, and AI technologies and assess their applicability within the platform ecosystem.
Support onboarding of new engineers by providing guidance on tools, frameworks, and engineering practices.
Required Minimum Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computing or similar discipline
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
7+ years experience in data engineering, including 3–5+ years in a senior or technical lead role.
Strong experience designing, building, and operating data pipelines across batch, streaming, and near‑real‑time use cases.
5+ years experience working with modern layered or medallion architectures, ideally within a federated data product model.
Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead by technical influence, and collaborate effectively across product, architecture, and platform teams.
Additional Experience
· 3+ years hands‑on experience with Kafka, event‑driven architectures, and CDC‑based ingestion and curation patterns.
· 4+ years experience implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines aligned with enterprise SDLC standards for data platforms.
· Working knowledge of AI and GenAI concepts relevant to data platforms, including LLMs, prompt engineering, ontologies, metadata enrichment, and data profiling.
· Strong understanding of data quality, lineage, governance, contextualization, and cataloging to support AI‑ready data assets.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Agile Product Development, Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Collaboration, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Critical Thinking, Customer Alignment, Demand Forecasting, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Organizing, Product Development, Product Improvements, Product Strategies, Requirements Analysis, Research and Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development Management, Stakeholder Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing, Technologically Savvy
The anticipated base pay range for this position is:
€63,300.00 - €101,315.00
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.
Additional information:
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