Director, Data & AI Platforms

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Job Function:
Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:
Platform/Cloud Engineering

Job Category:
People Leader

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

Job Description:

We are currently recruiting for a Director role for our DePuy Synthes organization.

This role is based in Raritan, NJ on a hybrid work model.

DePuy Synthes is the orthopaedics business of Johnson & Johnson.

As part of its strategy to enhance the strategic and operational focus of each business, Johnson & Johnson intends to separate its Orthopaedics business and establish DePuy Synthes as a standalone company.

Upon completion of the planned separation, DePuy Synthes will become the largest, most comprehensive orthopaedics-focused company, with leading market share positions across joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports medicine and craniomaxillofacial solutions.

Operating in a $50 billion+ global market and serving approximately seven million patients annually, the company is well positioned to advance patient care through continued innovation, clinical expertise and digital technologies, including the VELYS™ Digital Surgery portfolio.

Why this matters

This role represents a rare opportunity to build the data and AI platforms of a newly standalone company.

You will keep the business running through separation, exit transition services from Johnson & Johnson, and consolidate a fragmented estate of regional data lakes, ingestion frameworks, catalogs, MDM and BI tools into one governed, AI-ready platform on AWS and Databricks.

The platforms you build will be the foundation for analytics, AI and agentic solutions across every business function.

What you'll do

DePuy Synthes is seeking a Director, Data & AI Platforms to join the Data & AI Architecture & Platforms team, reporting to the Sr.

Director, Enterprise Data & AI Architect.

You will own the Data & AI Platforms tower and lead four platform teams: Core Data Platform & Integration, Data & BI Platforms, AI Runtime & Serving, and Platform Reliability & DevEx.

You will also direct the corresponding GCC engineering pods in Bengaluru on a dotted-line basis, in partne...