Senior Director, Immunology Data & AI Systems

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.

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic and technical leader to deliver data products and associated AI applications aimed at accelerating the Immunology R&D Pipeline. This role reports through the Research & Development Data Science & Digital Health (DSDH), directly to the Vice President, Immunology and Cardiopulmonary, DSDH. The successful candidate will lead a team to accelerate and scale the development of foundational enterprise data products and deploy a diverse set of scaled AI models and solutions for the entire Immunology therapy area.

This role ensures that high-value internal and external Immunology data assets—including preclinical, translational, clinical, competitive intelligence, and real-world data (RWD/RWE)—are standardized, productized, and integrated into Johnson & Johnson’s enterprise R&D data ecosystem. The position involves horizontal engagement with the Immunology TA as well as teams in R&D Data Science and Digital Health.

The primary location for this position is flexible: Cambridge, MA; Spring House, PA; Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ; or San Diego, CA. This is an on-site role with no fully remote option available. Occasional travel for cross-functional workshops, design sessions, and team meetings may be required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to develop technical requirements for Immunology-facing data products that enable AI applications.
• Attract, upskill, and retain top talent in the field; manage a technical team, and collaborate with key stakeholders in R&D, DSDH, and Johnson & Johnson Technology (JJT).
• Define and maintain a roadmap for Immunology data products, spanning discovery, translational research, clinical development, and real-world evidence.
• Partner with Knowledge Management, Data Platforms & Governance, and Master Data Management teams to ensure Immunology data products integrate seamlessly into enterprise ontologies, knowledge graphs, and catalogs.
• Lead a team that works with key business partners to develop and deploy impactful and scalable AI solutions for Immunology.
• Contribute to the development and governance of an Immunology Ontology to enable semantic consistency across discovery, clinical, regulatory, and real-world data.
• Establish and work with governance models, agile delivery processes, and value-tracking metrics for Immunology data products and AI tools.
• Champion data literacy and adoption within the Immunology therapeutic area (TA).

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PhD) in disciplines such as Computer Science, AI/ML, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or similar.
• Minimum of 10 years of post-academic, industry, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with diverse, high-dimensional data sets, such as multi-modal Immunology data, including omics, imaging, translational, clinical trial, and RWE data.
• Extensive experience in creating scalable and impactful data-driven solutions, including managing their full life cycle (design, development, testing, deployment, operations & maintenance, etc.).
• Strong experience in people leadership and ability to work in a matrixed organization.
• Deep knowledge of data products, database design, and data transformation/mapping.
• Excellent communication skills and strategic thinking capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, or Medical Tech sector.
• Experience with Immunology Ontology, enterprise metadata standards, and external frameworks (e.g., CDISC, GA4GH, FHIR, NCI Thesaurus).
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive adoption of new data capabilities across a complex organization.

Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in the Company’s annual performance bonus plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Eligibility to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year.
• Sick time – up to 40 hours per calendar year.
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year.
• Work, Personal, and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year.

Pay

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $196,000 to $342,700.