Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health – OCMO (office Of The Chief Medical Officer)

Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health – OCMO

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health – OCMO (Office of the Chief Medical Officer). This position has a primary location of Spring House, PA but is also open to Titusville, NJ.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Role Overview

We are seeking a dynamic leader to help drive the data science and data engineering strategy for our OCMO (Office of the Chief Medical Officer) organization.

The OCMO Data Science team applies advanced analytics and data engineering to forecast potential patient safety signals using our scientific understanding of disease biology across patient cohorts, and to interpret incoming adverse event (AE) signals in partnership with safety organizations. The team also uses patient safety signals we receive (AE's) to partner with our PSTS organization to better understand their possible cause, and feed those insights back to our Discovery organization for the design of our next generation of molecules. This role will lead a team to build end-to-end capabilities that connect biology-informed hypotheses to scaled analytics—spanning AI-ready data engineering, predictive modeling, and insight-to-Discovery translation.

A central expectation of this role is to ensure the organization has robust, future-proof data pipelines, governed data products, and traceable data foundations that enable safety signal forecasting and rapid signal interpretation at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development and deployment of analytics & AI approaches to support safety signal detection and translational interpretation.
• Apply model governance, versioning, and validation practices aligned with R&D AI expectations.
• Build analytic workflows to ingest, triage, and interpret AE/safety signals with safety partners, generating actionable hypotheses.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines to acquire, integrate, and manage relevant R&D/safety data from diverse sources.
• Transform raw inputs into standardized, analysis-ready, AI-ready datasets for modeling and decision support.
• Build and evolve data repositories and data models; optimize data flows for structured and unstructured data.
• Implement data quality and performance standards, KPIs, and monitoring to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Establish data versioning and lineage to support traceability, compliance, and documentation of data architectures/workflows.
• Partner with data engineering and ontology/knowledge-graph teams to advance harmonized scientific data models and interoperability.
• Translate safety insights into clear feedback for Discovery to inform next-generation molecule design (closed-loop learning).
• Define priorities and align stakeholders on a roadmap; communicate progress and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing Data Science team for this new and exciting area.

Qualifications

• Education: Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Data Science, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience: Significant experience leading end-to-end Data & AI solutions in biomedical/life sciences contexts, including stakeholder leadership and delivery in a matrixed environment.
• Data Engineering Depth (Required): Demonstrated experience designing and delivering scalable data pipelines, data models/repositories, and AI-ready data products; ability to translate business needs into engineering requirements.
• Quality/Governance: Experience implementing data quality standards, lineage/versioning, and documentation that enable traceability and reproducibility.
• Technical toolkit: Proficiency with modern data engineering and analytics tooling (Python/R/SQL, cloud services, workflow orchestration, version control).

This newly formed team sits at the intersection of patient safety, disease biology, and discovery, enabling the OCMO to move from reactive signal handling toward proactive risk forecasting, while building the data engineering and governance foundations required to scale those insights across R&D.

Ready to make an impact? Join us in shaping the future of OCMO Data Science at Johnson & Johnson.

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.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $164,000.00 - $282,900.00

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 Colorado –48 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 Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per year For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits