Principal Engr Platform/Cloud Engineering

6010-Biosense Webster Inc. Legal Entity; Geel; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Vacation days

Well-being reimbursement

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Principal Engineer, Platform & Cloud Engineering for the R&D Advanced Computing group, focusing on AI Native Drug Discovery. The role spans multiple locations including Beerse, BE, Leiden, NL, and Maidenhead, UK, and involves leading technology strategy, architecture, and deployment of scalable cloud solutions.

Responsibilities include driving platform capabilities, collaborating with Therapeutics Discovery and Data Sciences, and leveraging containerization and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with required years of industry experience.
• Proven ability to lead technology platforms, programs, projects and apply technical acumen.
• Experience with Python, Java, C++, or related languages; cloud services (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Set technology strategy and roadmaps for AI Native Drug Discovery platforms.
• Collaborate with business partners across Therapeutics Discovery and Data Sciences.
• Lead deployments, architecture design, and operational models for cloud platforms.

Skills

Programming languages

Cloud computing

Leadership

Agile

GPU/ML

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Master's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS RDS

AWS Lambda

GraphQL API

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

Job description

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.

Job Details

Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function: Platform/Cloud Engineering

Job Category: Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations: Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

We are searching for the best talent for a Principal Engr Platform/Cloud Engineering to be located in either Springhouse, PA, Raritan, NJ or Beerse, Belgium.

Springhouse NJ - Requisition Number: R-104331

Job Description

Innovative Medicine Research & Development, a Johnson & Johnson company, is recruiting for Principal Engineer, Platform & Cloud Engineering in our R&D Advanced Computing group focused on AI Native Drug Discovery.

This position will be located in Spring House, PA; Raritan, NJ; Beerse, BE; Leiden, NL; Madrid, ES; or Maidenhead, UK.

The R&D Advanced Computing team is part of a broader R&D Engineering organization that works on leading-edge technology solutions to drive the Innovative Medicine R&D business. R&D Advanced Computing is made up of a group of technical engineers and solution architects engaged in the hands‑on delivery of business solutions. Team members typically work directly with business partners in delivering solutions. The team prides itself on being closely involved in all aspects of deployments, including assisting with defining business value propositions and user story collections, designing robust solution architectures and implementing the technical solutions.

Our mission is to architect, design and implement the best technology to deliver high performing, scalable, reusable and cost optimised solutions across the IM R&D organisation, enabling opportunities and significant business value that could not have been accomplished before, accelerating medicine to patients who are waiting.

The Principal Engineer, Platform/Cloud Engineering will be a part of this team, providing technology leadership, assessing and influencing technology strategy roadmaps, being at the table with business partners, solution architecting/designing, implementing and deploying solutions to drive the overall AI Native Drug Discovery ecosystem and related disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor in setting technology strategy/roadmaps, as well as lead and implement technology deployments to business partners in AI Native Drug Discovery and related disciplines
• Maintain strong partnerships with business partners in Therapeutics Discovery, Therapeutic Areas, Data Sciences, and others based on incoming demand
• Contribute technology expertise to help identify and assess areas of greatest opportunity and impact for AI Native Drug Discovery technology platforms in pharmaceutical research and development at Innovative Medicine, and execution of platform 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 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
• Design and develop generative and agentic AI platforms, including LLM-powered applications, autonomous and multi-agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and model orchestration that accelerate drug discovery workflows
• Build and operationalise solutions on Cloud (AWS or Azure) using comparable foundation models, establishing reusable patterns for prompt engineering, tool/function calling, agent orchestration, evaluation, and responsible AI guardrails
• Exhibit capable and authentic technology leadership to learn from, develop, support, and motivate junior team members

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 6 years of industry experience; OR a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field and a minimum of 4 years of industry experience
• Proven ability to lead technology platforms, programs, projects and apply technical acumen to create new opportunities
• Experience with Python, Java, C++, or related complex programming language
• Experience with AWS EC2 and S3
• Experience with AWS RDS
• Experience with AWS Lambda
• Experience with hands on GraphQL API implementation
• Experience with visualization technologies and techniques
• 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 with functionality of Windows platforms
• Experience with functionality of Linux platforms
• Experience with technical vendor management
• Experience working on cross functional and global teams
• Experience working in a fast‑paced collaborative environment

Preferred Experience

• Experience building generative or agentic AI solutions with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, or similar foundation models
• Experience with agent frameworks and RAG architectures (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Strands, vector databases, etc.)
• Familiarity with management and analysis technologies in the area of drug discovery
• Experience working with Chef for configuration management
• Hands‑on experience building generative or agentic AI solutions with AWS Bedrock, Claude, or similar foundation models.
• Bonus: Experience implementing GxP projects
• Experience working with Agile methodology
• 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

Required Skills

Required Skills: Preferred Skills: Accessible Design, Agility Jumps, Business Alignment, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Security, Coaching, Critical Thinking, Human‑Computer Interaction (HCI), Hybrid Clouds, Multi Cloud Models, Organizing, Presentation Design, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development Management, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing

Salary and Benefits

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: €79,800.00 - €137,770.00

• 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Johnson & 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. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs.