Principal Engr Platform/Cloud Engineering

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Principal Engineer in Platform/Cloud Engineering to provide technology and organizational leadership for R&D Advanced Computing. The role drives technology strategy and delivery for the Digital Imaging ecosystem, including scalable cloud-based platforms supporting research and development.

Responsibilities:

• Be a key contributor in setting 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
• Identify and assess areas of greatest opportunity and impact for Digital Imaging technology platforms in pharmaceutical research and development at Innovative Medicine, creation and delivery of success measures, and execution of Digital Imaging platforms 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
• Exhibit capable and authentic leadership to learn from, develop, support, and motivate their direct reports and their broader team

Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 6 years of industry experience; OR a Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 4 years of industry experience
• Proven ability to lead teams, programs, projects and apply business acumen to create new opportunities
• Experience with AWS EC2 and S3
• Experience with functionality of Windows platforms
• Experience with vendor management
• Experience working on cross functional and global teams
• Experience working in a fast-paced collaborative environment
• Experience with visualization technologies and techniques
• Experience with Python, Java, C++, or related complex programming language
• Experience with functionality of Linux platforms
• Familiarity with imaging technologies such as a PACS or similar image management solution, and/or related image analysis technologies
• Experience working with Agile methodology
• Experience working with Chef for configuration management
• Experience with container functionality (Docker/Singularity/Kubernetes) and AWS EKS
• 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 with AWS RDS
• 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
• Experience with advanced functionality of Windows platforms