Associate Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health, Drug Discovery

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 Portfolio Management

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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
 

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently seeking an Associate Director, DSDH Discovery Portfolio.  This position can be located in one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA, Cambridge, MA, New Brunswick, NJ, Raritan, NJ, Titusville, NJ, or San Diego.  (No fully remote option available.)
 

Key Responsibilities:

As an associate director, you will join the Data Science and Digital Health organization within Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine leading the development of in silico immune disease models and knowledge integration methods to drive the development of innovative drugs.

You will play a crucial role in building how we identify, characterize and advance drug candidates providing innovative, multi-modal insights of complex biological regulation through the lens of computational modeling.

Your responsibilities will include overseeing collaborations with multidisciplinary teams, guiding model development, and ensuring adherence to best practices in software engineering.

You will work alongside biologists and immunologists to convert their biological hypotheses into testable computational outcomes.

This role provides technical leadership, drives cross-functional collaborations, and ensures scientific and engineering rigor across projects.

In This Role, You Will:


* Lead and mentor teams in the development and validation of computational models for immune and autoimmune disease biology, translating biological hypotheses into testable in silico experiments, and developing follow-up exp...