Sr Director, R&D Data Science - Head of Data Strategy & Products – TA Focus

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 Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Brisbane, California, United States of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM), a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Sr Director, R&D Data Science - Head of Data Strategy & Products – TA Focus.  This position has a primary location of Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA; Cambridge, MA; San Francisco, CA or Zug, Switzerland.  The position requires 25% travel. 

 

Zug, Switzerland Requisition:  

 

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.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine  

 

Position Summary: 

The “Head of Data Strategy & Products – TA Focus” leads development of Data Strategy and the strategy, design, and delivery of user-centric, reusable data products that enable delivery of Data Science and AI solutions for TA Discovery and drug development.  

This leader will be managing 3 specialized sub-teams:  Data Strategy & Products for Oncology TA, Data Strategy & Products for Immunology TA, and Data Strategy & Products for Neuroscience TA.  This leader will be implementing use cases to unify data across domains, scale semantic/knowledge and embedding services, and institutionalize data governance. 

This role establishes the productization of high-value data assets across TAs focusing on internal and external data sources (e.g.

performance data, competitor information etc.) and RWE.

Head of Data Strategy & Products – TA Focus works in close collaboration with Data Science TA teams. 
 
A core responsibility includes developing a TA Ontology as the semantic backbone of TA data, aligned with the broader strategy of integration of R&D data landscape.

The ontology serves as a foundational layer for data product standardization, reuse, and interoperability.

The Head of Data Strategy & Pr...