Lead Data Engineer

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Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Engineering

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Employer:          Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.

Job Title:            Lead Data Engineer

Job Code:           A011.8547

Job Location:     New Brunswick, NJ

Job Type:            Full-Time

Rate of Pay:       $170,000 - $190,000

Job Duties: Lead portfolio of data engineering projects working on multi-functional teams involving business analysts, product managers, and data scientists.

Define architecture and design resilient data analytics systems, processing large volumes of data in both batch and real time mode.

Drive adoption of modern data engineering principles, patterns, and best practices to improve velocity, quality, reliability, and maintainability of products.

Provide technical leadership by coaching and mentoring a team of engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and other means.

Work with data scientists to incorporate ML models in the data analytics platform to derive intelligent insights.

Optimize existing data infrastructure, code & data pipelines to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and improve scalability.

May telecommute.

Requirements: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a Lead Data Engineer-related occupation.

This job posting is anticipated to close on 1/9/2026.

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.

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