Principal Scientist, Data Science

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:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
US159 NJ Titusville - 1125 Trenton-Harbourton Rd

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

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

We are recruiting a Principal Scientist, Data Science to join the Data Solutions, Privacy and Ethics department.

The primary location for this position is Titusville, NJ but considerations will be given for alternate J&J locations.

Key Responsibilities:

As Principal Scientist, Data Science, he/she will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and optimizing omics-focused data processing pipelines leveraging Nextflow Tower while working with the broader R&D Data Science community to build efficiencies in the development of paired real world data (RWD), phenotypic cohort definitions.

Primary responsibility will be to ensure the efficient and reliable processing of large-scale RWD, genomics and bioinformatics datasets, while also collaborating with our data scientists, bioinformaticians, and software engineers to develop innovative solutions for data processing and analysis.

In This Role, You Will:



* Develop, maintain, and optimize Nextflow workflows and data pipelines to support the processing and analysis of large-scale genomics and bioinformatics datasets.


* Actively contribute to the building of and development of phenotypic pipelines.


* Collaborate with data scientists, bioinformaticians, and software engineers to design and implement scalable and efficient data processing solutions.


* Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing workflows to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.


* Develop and implement best practices for data quality, data validation, and data provenance.


* Integrate new data sources, technologies, and tools into our Nextflow Tower-based infrastructure.


* Work closely with the IT and DevOps teams to ensure the security, availability, and performance o...