Technical Product Owner

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:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

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 searching for the best talent for a Technical Product Owner - Regulatory Strategy Integrations located in Raritan, NJ or Titusville, NJ.

The Technical Product Owner will help to ensure that Regulatory Strategy applications will be able to connect to our new Unified Regulatory Platform in Veeva.  The Technical Product Owner will help to drive the future technical strategy for the Regulatory Intelligence product.  They will be accountable for technical delivery in partnership with the Technical Product Manager. They play a dual role as both the executor and transformational behind the technical solutions. Their responsibilities include ensuring the product's technical architecture aligns with the technology roadmap and adheres to technical engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape the squad vision / roadmap and steer the squad in delivering integrations to URP oriented around business impact
• Shape and prioritize backlog, utilizing business expertise and understanding of customer needs, translate requirements into user stories & acceptance criteria
• Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing stories and features, optimizing cost and improving delivery efficiency
• Act as the “voice of the customer” within the squad to ensure the squad “builds the right thing”
• Accountable for shaping and hitting squad OKRs
• Work closely with Product/Platform Manager to establish the products’ business value and support messaging, comms and customer outreach as necessary
• Ensure the integrations meet relevant security, privacy & compliance standards
• Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle
• Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of squad objectives
• Responsible for contributing to overall Engineering and Technology architecture definition, roadmap, and technical decisions for the product in coordination with the Product Owner, Product Group Engineer and BU Architect.
• Accountable for ensuring that technical implementation is aligned to the BU Architecture vision, economic framework and business needs
• Work closely with the Business Product Manager to define Product strategy/vision
• Work with squads to problem-solve technical challenges and implement solutions, using the squad technology strategy as a guide; is “hands-on-keys” coding while also supporting system/design/code reviews for squad –inclusive of assembling, writing and approving enablers
• Drive development and selection of technical solution options (from the approved list of solutions) and test concepts / potential solutions with users
• Negotiate technology options with business partners and collaborate with platform/product teams to identify opportunities to leverage platforms
• Manage development and review cadence, align tech landscape across squads to promote reusability, scalability and modularity
• Monitor product / platform developments and drive leading engineering practices for higher tech quality
• Own the technology lifecycle management and Product API catalogue, including the definition, creation, and maintenance of technical interfaces
• Observe technology trends across the industry and conduct research spikes for new capability and innovation opportunities
• Ensure timely adoption of new technologies and innovation, select and resource ideas to explore via ideation sessions where necessary
• Help Product Owners/Lead Engineers prioritize technical backlogs (across squads) and coach / mentor product and squad members
• Works with squads and other Product Lead Engineers to manage risks and solve, escalate, and track cross-product dependencies and impediments
• Be the single point of contact for ISRM, TQ (Q-CSV), vendors, and enterprise platform owners

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or similar (Engineering, Math, Physics, IT)
• A minimum of ten (10) years of relevant IT and business experience is required
• Experience leading the selection, build, and integration of platforms including data management, API architecture/design, and Cloud Native technologies
• Prior track record of owning products / platforms over their lifecycle in a multi-team context
• Prior track record of gathering requirements and translating into a product / platform vision through deep expertise in development, engineering, and UX
• Knowledge in at least one coding language (i.e. C/C++, C#, Python, Java, React.js, Node.js) with code review experience
• Excellent understanding of Global Regulatory Affairs systems, processes, and system/data integrations with downstream systems for analytics, compliance, and dashboarding
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information to all levels of the organization is required
• Sufficient understanding of the Regulatory business needs, including sufficient knowledge of business processes, relevant value drivers, and industry trends
• Maintain and advance a positive team culture and support an authentic, open, and broad environment that enhances diverse experiences and perspectives
• Strong understanding and knowledge about cloud computing technologies and platforms
• 20% Domestic Travel

Preferred:

• Basic understanding of AI/ML within a pharmaceutical business environment
• Basic understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models.
• System knowledge and prior experience with Veeva RIM Platform.

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. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$100,000 - $172,500

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Additional information can be found through the link below. http://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.