Principal Engineer Platform/Cloud Engineering

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 jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Platform/Cloud Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands, Madrid, Spain, Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

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 Description:

Innovative Medicine Research & Development, a Johnson & Johnson company, is recruiting for Principal Engineer, Platform & Cloud Engineering in our R&D Advanced Computing group focused on Digital Imaging Technologies.  This position can be located in Beerse, BE; Leiden, NL; Madrid, ES; Maidenhead, UK Raritan, NJ; or Spring House, PA.

The R&D Advanced Computing team is part of a broader R&D Engineering organization that works on leading-edge technology solutions to drive the Innovative Medicine R&D business. R&D Advanced Computing is made up of a group of technical engineers and solution architects engaged in the hands-on delivery of business solutions. Team members typically work directly with business partners in delivering solutions. The team prides itself on being closely involved in all aspects of deployments, including assisting with defining business value propositions and user story collections, designing robust solution architectures and implementing the technical solutions. Our mission is to architect, design and implement the best technology to deliver high performing, scalable, reusable and cost optimized solutions across the IM R&D organization, enabling opportunities and significant business value that could not have been accomplished before, accelerating medicine to patients who are waiting. 

The Principal Engineer, Platform/Cloud Engineering will be a part of this team, providing technology leadership, assessing and influencing technology strategy roadmaps, being at the table with business partners, solution architecting/designing, implementing and deploying solutions to drive the overall Digital Imaging ecosystem and related disciplines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be a key contributor in setting technology strategy/roadmaps, as well as lead and implement technology deployments to business partners in all areas of Digital Imaging, including but not limited to Digital Pathology, Digital Radiology and Clinical Imaging
• Maintain strong partnerships with business partners in Pre-Clinical Sciences & Translational Safety, Oncology, Neuroscience, Immunology, Data Sciences, Molecular Imaging and others based on incoming demand
• Contribute technology expertise to help identify and assess areas of greatest opportunity and impact for Digital Imaging technology platforms in pharmaceutical research and development at Innovative Medicine, and execution of Digital Imaging platform capabilities
• Collaborate with numerous groups across the IT organization, engage and influence in sector and enterprise technology leadership, as well as partner externally with the Life Sciences industry Imaging community
• Drive the team's technology stack, including capabilities for scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, alerting, deployment, orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure, reuse and reproducibility
• Leverage the unique capabilities of cloud computing to deliver effective solutions
• Establish long term sustainable operational processing and resource models
• Stay abreast of the rapidly changing technology landscape and incorporate technologies such as containerization, serverless and accelerated AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Agentic AI as appropriate to deliver business value

• Design and develop generative and agentic AI platforms, including LLM-powered applications, autonomous and multi-agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and model orchestration that accelerate digital imaging workflows
• Build and operationalize solutions on Cloud (AWS or Azure) using comparable foundation models, establishing reusable patterns for prompt engineering, tool/function calling, agent orchestration, evaluation, and responsible AI guardrails

• Exhibit capable and authentic technology leadership to learn from, develop, support, and motivate junior team members

Qualifications

Required:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 6 years of industry experience; OR a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 4 years of industry experience
• Proven ability to lead technology platforms, programs, projects and apply technical acumen to create new opportunities
• Experience with Python, Java, C++, or related complex programming language
• Experience with AWS EC2 and S3

• Experience with container functionality (Docker/Singularity/Kubernetes) and AWS EKS

• Experience with functionality of Windows platforms
• Experience with functionality of Linux platforms
• Experience with technical vendor management
• Experience working on cross functional and global teams
• Experience working in a fast-paced collaborative environment

Preferred:

• Experience with AWS RDS
• Experience building generative or agentic AI solutions with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, or similar foundation models
• Experience with agent frameworks and RAG architectures (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Strands, vector databases, etc.)
• Experience with hands on GraphQL API implementation
• Experience with visualization technologies and techniques
• Experience working with Chef for configuration management
• Experience with GPUs for areas such as computational sciences, advanced AI / ML / Deep Learning image analysis and predictive model training
• Experience working with high performance storage solutions
• Experience implementing GxP projects
• Experience working with Agile methodology

Bonus:

• Familiarity with imaging technologies such as a PACS or similar image management solution, and/or related image analysis technologies
• Experience with AWS Lambda
• Experience working with High Performance Computing cluster technologies (e.g., Grid Engine, Slurm)
• Experience with other major cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Accessible Design, Agility Jumps, Business Alignment, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Security, Coaching, Critical Thinking, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Hybrid Clouds, Multi Cloud Models, Organizing, Presentation Design, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development Management, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing

The anticipated pay range for this position, in the primary posting location, is:

€79.800,00 - €137.770,00

The anticipated pay ranges for additional locations are:

The anticipated base pay range for this position in SPAIN is EUR 61.800 to EUR 106.260
The anticipated base pay range for this position in UK is GBP 56.400 to GBP 97.980
The anticipated base pay range for this position in NETHERLANDS is EUR 68.600 to EUR 119.600
The anticipated base pay range for this position in US is USD 102.000 to USD 177.100

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.