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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.\nAs 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.\nJob Function:\nData Analytics & Computational SciencesJob Sub Function:\nData EngineeringJob Category:\nPeople LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:\nBeerse, Antwerp, BelgiumJob Description:\nWe are searching for the best talent for a Director, Research Data Systems to be located in Spring House, PA; Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ or Beerse, Belgium.\nPlease 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):\nUnited States - R-102254\nRemember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.\nThe Director, Research Data Systems, Innovative Medicines R&D is responsible for leading the research data technology capabilities that enable trusted, governed and reusable data across the Research organization. The role will drive a major transformation to bring research data from fragmented systems, instruments, labs, and (in silico) scientific workflows into a FAIR environment that accelerates discovery, translational science, analytics, AI/GenAI, and scientific decision-making.\nThis role partners across research functions, lab informatics teams, data product owners, scientists, data science/modeling teams, governance leaders, architecture, cybersecurity, and technology platform teams to run a research data operating model. The role translates research strategy, FAIR principles, scientific data needs and AI-readiness requirements into using scalable platforms, metadata practices, data services, standards, scorecards, and operating routines.\nThe role is accountable for research data platforms, research data ingestion, FAIR metadata and cataloging, scientific data quality and scorecards, research master/reference data, semantic interoperability, data virtualization, and research data products across Discovery, laboratory sciences, translational research, computational biology, chemistry, biologics, imaging, omics, screening, and other research domains.\nKey Responsibilities:\nResearch Data Ingestion and Curation Services\nLead scalable data ingestion and curation platforms, covering onboarding, metadata enrichment, pipeline engineering, orchestration, monitoring, and issue resolution.\nEnable tools to standardise naming conventions, identifiers, provenance, lineage, ontologies, vocabularies, quality thresholds, stewardship, sharing, and compliant scientific reuse.\nPartner with data product teams and scientists to ensure scientific context and data quality.\nEnable governed and performant access to distributed R&D data through scalable integration and data virtualization, including federation, semantic access, security, caching, and performance optimization.\nResearch Data Quality, Governance and FAIR Standards\nDefine and operate research data quality and FAIR frameworks, standards, thresholds, and executive reporting across priority research data domains.\nPartner with data owners, stewards, DDSAI, product teams, and business functions to establish quality rules, ownership, metadata expectations and FAIR acceptance criteria.\nEstablish consistent, automated monitoring and governance across diverse research data, covering quality and completeness.\nTranslate quality and FAIR insights into remediation priorities and measurable improvement roadmaps, improving data readiness for analytics, AI/GenAI, computational modeling, knowledge graphs, translational science, and scientific reuse.\nResearch Data Semantics, Metadata and Master Data\nLead research data catalog, metadata, ontology, lineage, and master/reference data capabilities to improve the findability, context, interoperability, governance, and reuse of research data.\nEstablish consistent adoption of canonical research entities, identifiers, controlled vocabularies, semantic standards, metadata, lineage, and provenance across research platforms, workflows, pipelines, and data products.\nEnable high-quality, semantically consistent research data across compounds, targets, assays, samples, studies, experiments, instruments, and other scientific domains to support analytics, AI, automation, knowledge management, and cross-study interoperability.\nQualifications\nMaster’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Life Sciences; advanced degree preferred.\n10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience with relevant focus.\nSolid experience in research data platform engineering, scientific data architecture, laboratory informatics, or enterprise research data management.\nGood background in designing and implementing cloud-based FAIR data environments, semantic and metadata capabilities, and enterprise master/reference data solutions.\nExperience in life sciences, healthcare, biotech, pharmaceuticals, or other highly regulated environments preferred.\nGood understanding of FAIR data principles, data product management, data contracts, research governance workflows, privacy, security, compliance, AI-ready data, and platform operating models.\nShown to successfully lead multi-functional teams and influence research leaders and scientists.\nOutstanding communication skills with the ability to translate complex data platform and governance topics into clear business decisions and outcomes.\nExperience and Skills:\nRequired:\nShown success building and operating enterprise-grade data solutions!\nExperience establishing operating models for governed, reusable data assets.\nDemonstrated ability to partner with scientists, data science, analytics, business, and technology organizations.\nExperience handling critical data services with reliability targets, operational metrics, issue remediation, cost optimization, and service improvement routines.\nConsistent track record driving adoption of shared platforms, common standards, self-service patterns, metadata practices, governance workflows, and data product lifecycle management.\nStrong executive influencing skills!\nJohnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.\nJohnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.\nRequired Skills:\nPreferred Skills:\nAdvanced Analytics, Agility Jumps, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Modeling, Data Privacy Standards, Data Quality, Data Science, Developing Others, Execution Focus, Hybrid Clouds, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Program Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Succession Planning, Technical Development, Technologically SavvyThe anticipated base pay range for this position is:\n€119,200.00 - €204,355.00Benefits:\nIn 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.\n*This is for informative purposes only. 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