Technical Product Owner – Toxicology Systems

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Beerse; Sur place; EUR 73 000 - 115 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual bonus

Vacation days

Parental leave

Insurance plans

Résumé du poste

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine seeks a Technical Product Owner for Toxicology Systems, focusing on platforms and models that empower toxicology scientists. Beerse is a key site, with cross‑country postings to Spring House/La Jolla and Beerse to comply with local requirements.

The Technology Product Owner will own the technical delivery, roadmaps, and partnerships, translating scientific needs into scalable solutions while ensuring data integrity and regulatory alignment across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, toxicology, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting scientific research platforms.
• Proven track record leading technical programs end‑to‑end in a complex organization.
• Scientific literacy in toxicology and compound promiscuity concepts: assay types, ADME endpoints and off‑target profiling.
• Experience with Python or R, SQL, REST APIs, containerization, CI/CD practices, and cloud environments.

Responsabilités

• Lead technology strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery for digital products supporting toxicology workflows, aligning scientific needs, enterprise technology standards, and available delivery capacity.
• Translate scientific needs into technical requirements, success criteria, and measurable deliverables; ensure clear acceptance criteria and productization pathways.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership when it adds the most value, including architecture definition, rapid prototyping, design reviews, and evaluation of pipelines and models; coordinate delivery across engineering, data, quality, and scientific partner teams.
• Ensure robust data ingestion, normalization, annotation, and QC processes; drive integrations with LIMS, ELN, assay instruments, and third‑party data providers.
• Define and promote fit‑for‑purpose practices for data provenance, metadata standards, FAIR principles, and auditability to support scientific reproducibility and applicable compliance requirements.
• Act as primary technical liaison for toxicology scientists: capture requirements, demo solutions, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
• Lead technical evaluations of vendors and third‑party solutions, provide due diligence and risk assessments, and coordinate integrations with procurement, legal, cybersecurity, quality, and engineering partners.
• Communicate product status, value, trade‑offs, dependencies, and technical risks to leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders; facilitate decisions and elevate issues when appropriate.

Connaissances

Python

R

SQL

REST APIs

Containerization

CI/CD

Cloud environments

Product leadership

Stakeholder management

Data platforms

Formation

Bachelor’s in CS, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, Toxicology, or related field

Master’s or PhD preferred

Outils

RDKit

ML frameworks (scikit-learn)

TensorFlow

PyTorch

MLOps concepts

Description du poste

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function

Technical Product Management

Job Category

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Technical Product Owner – Toxicology Systems , located in Spring House, PA (US), La Jolla, CA (US) or Beerse, Belgium.

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):

• United States (Spring House or La Jolla) - Requisition Number: R-094926
• Belgium (Beerse) - Requisition Number: Evergreen Requisition: R-096026

The Technology Product Owner for Toxicology will own the technical delivery and support of toxicology products directly supporting toxicology and compound promiscuity science. This business technology role combines deep domain and technical expertise with program-level coordination: you will define technical strategy, own roadmaps and delivery for platforms and models used by toxicology scientists, and act as the primary technical partner and escalation point for scientific stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technology strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery for digital products supporting toxicology workflows, aligning scientific needs, enterprise technology standards, and available delivery capacity.
• Translate scientific needs into technical requirements, success criteria, and measurable deliverables; ensure clear acceptance criteria and productization pathways.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership when it adds the most value, including architecture definition, rapid prototyping, design reviews, and evaluation of pipelines and models; coordinate delivery across engineering, data, quality, and scientific partner teams.
• Ensure robust data ingestion, normalization, annotation, and QC processes; drive integrations with LIMS, ELN, assay instruments, and third‑party data providers.
• Define and promote fit‑for‑purpose practices for data provenance, metadata standards, FAIR principles, and auditability to support scientific reproducibility and applicable compliance requirements.
• Act as primary technical liaison for toxicology scientists: capture requirements, demo solutions, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
• Lead technical evaluations of vendors and third‑party solutions, provide due diligence and risk assessments, and coordinate integrations with procurement, legal, cybersecurity, quality, and engineering partners.
• Communicate product status, value, trade‑offs, dependencies, and technical risks to leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders; facilitate decisions and elevate issues when appropriate.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, Toxicology, or related field required; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of experience supporting scientific research platforms
• Demonstrated depth in designing, delivering, and sustaining data platforms, analytics products, or machine learning solutions in life sciences, drug discovery, or another complex scientific environment.
• Demonstrated track record of leading technical programs or major projects end‑to‑end in a complex organization.
• Scientific literacy in toxicology and compound promiscuity concepts: assay types, ADME endpoints and off‑target profiling.
• Maintain sufficient software and data engineering depth to guide solution design, evaluate implementation quality, and contribute directly when needed, including experience with Python or R, SQL, REST APIs, containerization, CI/CD practices, and cloud environments.
• Systems and architecture skills: ability to design scalable, maintainable platforms that meet scientists’ needs and regulatory constraints.
• Product and delivery leadership: define product outcomes, shape roadmaps, prioritize investments, establish success measures, manage dependencies and risks, and align cross‑functional partners around delivery decisions.
• Operational leadership: establish support models, service expectations, lifecycle plans, and escalation paths for production solutions; use reliability, adoption, quality, and value measures to guide continuous improvement.
• Executive‑ready communication and influence: explain technical choices, business value, delivery trade‑offs, and risk to scientific, technology, and leadership audiences; build alignment and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset and bias for pragmatic, evidence‑driven solutions.

Preferred

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in toxicology, cheminformatics, computational chemistry, or related discipline.
• Hands‑on experience with cheminformatics tooling (e.g., RDKit), molecular representations, fingerprints, SMARTS/substructure filtering, and selectivity/promiscuity scoring approaches.
• Experience with ML libraries and frameworks (scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) and MLOps tools (model registries, monitoring).
• Prior experience in regulated or GLP‑relevant environments, or with quality frameworks that apply to scientific data and software.
• Experience performing technical vendor evaluations and managing third‑party scientific data/software integrations.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€72,500.00 - €115,230.00

Benefits

• 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.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.