Technical Director, Data Engineering

About this role

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

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world.  We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual.  At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function: Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function: Data Engineering

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description: We are searching for the best talent for a Technical Director, Data Engineering to be located in either Raritan, NJ, Sao Paulo Brazil, São José dos Campos, Brazil or the United Kingdom.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s): Raritan, NJ, Sao Paulo, Brazil São José dos Campos, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom - Requisition Number: R-096317 Sao Paulo, Brazil Requisition number R-096041 Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil - Requisition number R-096313

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission. Job Description Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Director, ISRM Data Engineering, Analytics & AI to join our Information Security & Risk Management organization. The preferred locations is Raritan, New Jersey. Other J&J locations may be considered based on business needs. 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 where 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. Position Summary The Director, ISRM Data Engineering, Analytics & AI will set the strategy and lead delivery of enterprise cybersecurity data capabilities that make J&J’s security data trusted, accessible, actionable, and scalable. This leader will bring together cybersecurity, data engineering, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to improve transparency across assets, vulnerabilities, system events, operational technology environments, cloud services, identities, and other critical risk domains. We are looking for a collaborative technical leader, product-minded strategist, and trusted partner who can translate complex cybersecurity needs into data products, insights, and outcomes. The Director will advance the ISRM DataHub ecosystem, strengthen data quality and governance, enable AI/ML and agentic AI use cases, and deliver measurable value through stronger decision-making, automation, and cyber risk reduction. Key Responsibilities • Define and implement the strategy and roadmap for ISRM data engineering, analytics, visualization, and AI capabilities in alignment with J&J’s Cyber Trust Strategy and ISRM priorities. • Lead the design and modernization of scalable cybersecurity data platforms, pipelines, models, services, and reusable data products across structured and unstructured security data sources. • Improve asset intelligence, vulnerability analytics, OT analytics, CMDB reconciliation, network telemetry and application dependency insights, security reporting, and cyber accountability capabilities. • Increase adoption of the ISRM DataHub and related analytics services by improving usability, reliability, data quality, cataloging, search, self-service enablement, and customer engagement. • Partner across cyber operations, architecture, product, engineering, risk, compliance, and business teams to turn complex security questions into trusted data products and actionable insights. • Identify, prioritize, and deliver AI/ML and agentic AI use cases that improve cybersecurity effectiveness, operational efficiency, automation, decision support, and risk reduction. • Establish and mature DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, documentation, governance, and controls needed to operate enterprise-grade cybersecurity data capabilities. • Lead complex, multi-functional initiatives from concept through delivery, including business value development, roadmap planning, partner alignment, execution governance, and value realization. • Coach and develop data engineers, analysts, product contributors, and diverse team members to build future-ready skills in cybersecurity, data engineering, analytics, cloud, automation, and AI. • Communicate strategy, progress, risks, dependencies, value, and outcomes clearly to senior leaders, business partners, and technical collaborators.

Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field is required; an advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred. • Demonstrated ability across data engineering, analytics, technology delivery, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, or enterprise IT, including experience leading complex multi-functional initiatives. • Experience designing and operating large-scale c

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