Senior Director, Commercial Data Engineering, Platforms & Products

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Technology is recruiting for the Senior Director, Commercial Data Engineering, Platforms & Products. The primary location for this position is Titusville, NJ, with consideration given to Raritan, NJ, and Horsham, PA. This role may require up to 10% domestic and international travel.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Technology is seeking an exceptional data leader to establish the technology vision for the commercial data ecosystem, driving modernization, engineering excellence, and architectural innovation across the Innovative Medicine North America (NA) Commercial business and the Global Commercial Strategy Organization (GCSO). Reporting to the Vice President, Commercial Data and AI, the Senior Director, Commercial Data Platforms & Products will set and execute the strategy for our organization data foundations, spanning launch excellence, sales and marketing, medical affairs, market access, patient engagement, and commercial operations.

This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future data, analytics, and AI foundation of one of the world's leading healthcare organizations.  The successful candidate will influence enterprise technology strategy, accelerate data platform modernization, and help define how data and AI capabilities evolve together to create competitive advantage and business impact. You will lead the architecture, engineering, governance, and productization of our data assets, ensuring it is discoverable, reliable, well-governed, and consumable by analysts, data scientists, AI systems, and business users alike. In doing so, you will provide the data foundation on which the broader Commercial Data and AI portfolio runs, inclusive of generative and agentic AI.

You will build and lead a high-performing team of data platform engineers, data product managers, data architects, and analytics practitioners, stewarding significant annual investment across the buy/borrow/build continuum to deliver with speed and scale. Success in this role requires the rare combination of deep technical fluency in modern data architecture, commercial pharmaceutical acumen, product-oriented thinking, executive influence, servant leadership, and a disciplined focus on trusted, compliant delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Data Platform Strategy & Modern Architecture

• Influence and drive the strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for the core commercial data platforms that serve Commercial, Medical, and Patient organizations across IM NA Commercial and GCSO, ensuring a scalable, cost-efficient, and future-ready foundation.

• Advance a modern cloud data ecosystem (e.g., lakehouse, streaming, and warehouse patterns) that supports batch and real-time workloads, and set direction across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers.

• Mature the semantic and AI-context layers, master data management, and reference data so that data is consistent, contextualized, and ready to power analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI.

• Drive platform reliability, performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership through sound engineering practices, automation, and DataOps.

Data Products at Scale

• Scale the established a data-as-a-product operating model, delivering well-defined, discoverable, and reusable data products with clear ownership, service levels, documentation, and consumer-grade usability.

• Partner with business and analytics teams to translate priority business questions into high-value data products and analytics assets, measured by adoption, reuse, and business outcomes.

• Enable self-service analytics and democratized access to trusted data, reducing time-to-insight while maintaining governance and control.

Data Governance, Quality & Compliance (Data Contracts, PaC, DataGovOps)

• Champion enterprise data governance, data quality, lineage, cataloging, and metadata management so that data is trustworthy, well-documented, and fit for regulated use.

• Embed privacy, security, and compliance-by-design into data platforms and products, partnering with Healthcare Compliance, Legal, Privacy, Quality, and Security, and ensuring appropriate controls for sensitive data (e.g., PII and commercially sensitive data).

• Ensure the data foundation meets the standards required for responsible, auditable AI, including data readiness, provenance, and observability that downstream AI and analytics depend on.

People Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team of data engineers, data architects, data product managers, and analytics professionals through hiring, coaching, performance management, and talent development that drives retention and career growth.

• Partner closely with the Commercial Data and AI leadership team, business teams, and technology partners to ensure platforms and data products accelerate the broader data, analytics, and AI road map.

• Remove organizational barriers, simplify decision-making processes, and increase organizational velocity through modern data engineering practices and operating model; foster a Credo-based culture and elevate data fluency across the organization.

• Manage strategic vendors and partners across a buy/borrow/build model, and stay current on emerging data technologies, patterns, and industry trends to inform strategy and investment.

Qualifications

Required

• Experience implementing data platform engineering practices that improve developer productivity, automation, reuse, and delivery velocity.
• Demonstrated success modernizing enterprise-scale platforms using DataOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, data observability, and reliability engineering principles. - policy-as-code, DataGovOps, data contracts

 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience delivering enterprise data platforms, data products, and analytics at scale, including translating business needs into trusted, reusable data assets with measurable business impact; life sciences/healthcare experience strongly preferred.

• People leadership: 5+ years building and leading high-performing data and analytics teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing technical leaders, with experience managing significant operating investment and extended/vendor teams.

• Data architecture & engineering: Deep expertise in modern data architecture and platforms (e.g., lakehouse, data warehouse, and streaming) and hands-on fluency with leading cloud and data technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake) and modern data pipelines/ELT.

• Data products & analytics: Proven track record standing up a data-as-a-product operating model—data product management, semantic layers, master data management, and self-service analytics—and delivering core analytics that drive decisions.

• Data governance & quality: Strong command of data governance, data quality, cataloging, lineage, and metadata management, with the ability to embed controls by design in a regulated environment.

• Privacy & compliance: Working knowledge of data standards, privacy regulations, and governance expectations in regulated environments, and the ability to partner effectively with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Compliance.

• Portfolio & value leadership: Demonstrated ability to prioritize a portfolio, manage investment across the data product lifecycle, and drive adoption and value realization through clear OKRs/KPIs and stakeholder alignment.

• Communication & influence: Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and influence decisions from the executive level to delivery teams.

Preferred

• Commercial pharmaceutical domain expertise across sales & marketing, omnichannel/customer engagement, medical affairs, market access, patient services, and/or commercial operations, including experience with commercially relevant data sets (e.g., sales, claims, patient, and third-party syndicated data).

• Experience enabling advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative/agentic AI by delivering AI-ready data foundations, feature/semantic layers, and context layers.

• Familiarity with data mesh and domain-oriented ownership, DataOps, and product-led operating models for data at enterprise scale.

• Track record partnering with and managing external vendors and strategic technology partners (e.g., systems integrators, hyperscalers, and consulting firms) across a buy/borrow/build model.

• Recognized thought leadership in data platforms, data products, or analytics through internal and external speaking, publications, or advisory roles.

 

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Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Analytics Insights, Continuous Improvement, Critical Thinking, Financial Competence, Industry Analysis, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Representing, Statement of Work (SOW)

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$178,000 - $307,050

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours  Additional information can be found through the link below.  https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits