Senior Engineer Software Engineering Integration
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine · Spring House, PA · 2 mo ago
HybridFull-time
About the role
The Lead Software Engineer for R&D Technology is responsible for the design and delivery of solutions that underpin next-generation R&D capabilities across small molecules, peptides, and oligonucleotides. This role bridges scientific needs with scalable technology solutions, ensuring automation, data, and digital platforms enable high-quality decision-making.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Design, build and support integrations across core business lab systems
- Define and maintain the Engineering and Technology architecture vision, roadmap, and standards
- Lead the technical architecture across squads, ensuring alignment to enterprise patterns, reusable components, and modern engineering practices
- Drive evaluation, design, and selection of technical solution options; build, test, and validate architectural concepts and prototypes; contribute production code to critical technical paths
- Translate sophisticated business and scientific requirements into scalable and actionable technical designs
- Drive technical decisions to ensure long-term sustainability
- Collaborate with platform, product teams and architects to leverage of enterprise capabilities (AWS, data platforms, workflow engines, lab systems)
Engineering Excellence & Operations
- Develop a technical understanding of the existing lab systems, their business use cases and how to build integrations with them
- Own CI/CD pipeline architecture and automation strategy
- Establish observability and operational excellence standards across platforms
- Manage technical debt and maintain system health through proactive refactoring and modernization
- Manage development and review cadence; align technology landscape across squads to promote interoperability, modularity, and scalability
Team Leadership & Development
- Mentor and develop engineering talent across squads
- Establish engineering standards and review practices
- Lead technical hiring and team scaling
Governance & Lifecycle Management
- Own lifecycle management for domain technologies, including the Product API catalog and integrations governance
- Ensure architectural compliance with security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory standards
- Establish policies and standards for responsible AI tool usage in regulated/validated environments
- Monitor emerging technology trends in lab automation, cloud engineering, AI/ML, and scientific computing
- Conduct research spikes and feasibility assessments for new capabilities relevant to synthetic workflows and workflow automation
Qualifications
- 5-7+ years of software engineering experience
- Track record of leading technical initiatives from concept to production
- Strong foundational skills in IT, including database design, data engineering, cloud computing, and architecture principles
- Proven track record to translate sophisticated scientific and business needs into practical technical solutions
- Experience designing systems handling regulated/validated data
- Understanding of GxP or regulated system requirements
- Experience with cloud-native platforms and technologies (AWS, Lambda, Step Functions, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Expertise in API design, microservices patterns, and event-driven architectures
- Strong data modeling and schema evolution expertise
- Experience with testing strategies and quality engineering practices
- Experience establishing engineering practices and tooling across teams
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Kiro, Claude Code) to improve engineering efficiency
- Proficiency in Python for prototyping, integration, or workflow automation
- Proven experience owning products or platforms throughout their lifecycle in a multi-team environment
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to influence and build trusted partnerships across functions
- Experience in leading a team of external resources
- Experience delivering high-quality digital solutions including dependency management, release planning, change control, validation, and governance
- Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and software validation practices
Preferred Experience
- In pharmaceutical discovery or development environments
- Experience with lab-specific systems such as ELN, LIMS, SDMS, or automation control software
Benefits
The anticipated base pay range for this position is: 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.