Sr Eng , Forward Deployed Engineer, RD Soft Eng
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Job summary
Johnson & Johnson Hyderabad seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer, Full Stack Lead to design, build, and deploy modern digital solutions in enterprise environments. You will work closely with product teams and stakeholders to translate complex problems into scalable, secure full stack implementations.
The role emphasizes leadership, hands-on development across front-end, back-end, and cloud platforms, with a focus on regulatory compliance, security, and production readiness in healthcare IT.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Master's Degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, full stack development, or digital product engineering.
- 3+ years as a technical lead, lead engineer, solution architect, or forward deployed engineer.
- Proven experience building and deploying production-grade full stack apps using modern frontend/backend/API technologies.
- Experience with Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and release management.
- Experience in Pharmaceutical/Healthcare or regulated industries preferred.
Responsibilities
- Act as technical lead for customer-embedded delivery, from concept to production.
- Design and build modern web applications, APIs, services, dashboards, and tools.
- Deploy and integrate solutions within complex enterprise environments and cloud platforms.
- Implement CI/CD, security scans, and production readiness practices.
- Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into designs.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, quality and regulatory standards.
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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.
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
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.
Forward Deployed Engineering, Full Stack Product Engineering, Digital Solutions & Cloud Applications
Location Hyderabad, India (Hybrid)
Reports To Director, Product Engineering / ICC
Johnson & Johnson is seeking a highly capable Forward Deployed Engineer, Full Stack, Lead Engineer to work directly with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering partners to design, build, deploy, and operationalize modern digital solutions in real-world enterprise environments. This role will serve as a hands-on technical lead embedded close to users and product teams, translating ambiguous business problems into secure, scalable, and production-ready full stack solutions. The successful candidate will bridge product strategy, solution architecture, engineering execution, deployment, adoption, and operational support across Clinical Development, R&D, Medical Affairs, and enterprise technology capabilities. The ideal candidate brings deep full stack engineering expertise, strong systems thinking, customer-facing problem solving, cloud-native delivery experience, DevSecOps discipline, and the ability to rapidly prototype, harden, and scale solutions within regulated enterprise technology environments.
Act as the technical lead for customer-embedded delivery efforts, owning solution discovery, design, build, deployment, and adoption from concept to production. Lead by influence across product managers, architects, engineers, data teams, AI teams, cybersecurity, quality, and business stakeholders. Translate complex and evolving business needs into actionable technical designs, prototypes, integration patterns, and delivery plans. Mentor engineers on solution design, secure coding, debugging, technical decision-making, and production-readiness practices.
Design and build modern web applications, APIs, services, workflow tools, dashboards, portals, automation components, and integration layers. Rapidly prototype solutions with users, validate value, iterate based on feedback, and convert prototypes into maintainable production-grade applications. Own implementation across front-end, back-end, API, database, identity, integration, observability, and deployment layers. Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, accessible, performant, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture and platform standards.
Deploy and integrate solutions within complex enterprise environments, including legacy systems, cloud platforms, identity services, data platforms, and third-party applications. Apply cloud-native patterns, microservices, API-first design, event-driven integration, containerization, and managed services where appropriate. Troubleshoot production issues, resolve integration blockers, optimize performance, and address edge cases in live business workflows. Capture deployment learnings and convert them into reusable engineering patterns, product improvements, accelerators, and reference architectures.
Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, security scans, infrastructure automation, and release management practices. Establish operational KPIs covering reliability, performance, deployment frequency, incident trends, and service health. Partner with cybersecurity, privacy, and quality teams to ensure secure software development lifecycle practices. Drive root cause analysis, technical debt reduction, application rationalization, and continuous platform improvement.
Run discovery workshops, technical deep dives, and solution design sessions with business users, product owners, architects, and delivery teams. Communicate trade-offs, risks, technical options, and delivery progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Partner with product teams to convert field insights into backlog items, platform enhancements, roadmap inputs, and adoption strategies. Balance rapid delivery, business value, user adoption, security, compliance, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Ensure applications comply with applicable enterprise security, privacy, quality, accessibility, and regulatory requirements. Support delivery practices aligned with GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), GDPR, HIPAA, and internal J&J technology standards where applicable. Maintain audit-ready engineering documentation, traceability, and release evidence for regulated applications. Promote responsible use of data and AI-enabled capabilities within application experiences.
- Education Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Master's Degree preferred.
- Experience 5+ years of experience in software engineering, full stack development, enterprise application delivery, solution engineering, or digital product engineering.
- 3+ years of experience as a technical lead, lead engineer, solution architect, forward deployed engineer, or senior hands-on engineering owner.
- Proven experience building and deploying production-grade full stack applications using modern front-end, back-end, API, database, and cloud technologies.
- Experience working directly with business users or customers to discover needs, design solutions, implement integrations, troubleshoot issues, and drive adoption.
- Experience with Agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, release management, and production support practices.
- Experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, or other regulated industries preferred.
Front-End Engineering: React / Angular / modern JavaScript frameworks, TypeScript / JavaScript, HTML5 / CSS3, Responsive design, Accessibility and UX collaboration.
Back-End & APIs: Java / .NET / Node.js / Python, REST APIs and microservices, API security and authentication.
Cloud & DevSecOps Engineering Practices: Relational and NoSQL databases, Event-driven integrations, Azure preferred / AWS, Containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, logging, observability, Secure SDLC, Automated testing, Code quality and reviews, Agile delivery, Architecture and design patterns, Production support excellence.
Experience delivering solutions for Clinical Development, R&D, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, enterprise data platforms, or internal business productivity use cases.
Experience integrating applications with analytics platforms, AI services, workflow tools, enterprise identity, API gateways, and data products.
Experience operating in ambiguous environments where requirements evolve and rapid experimentation is required to validate business value.
Relevant certifications in Azure, AWS, software architecture, Agile, DevOps, cybersecurity, or application engineering.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to simplify complex technology topics, influence without authority, and build trust with stakeholders.
Digital Product Engineering / Clinical IT / ICC
Johnson & Johnson is an affirmative action and 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, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Required Skills
Preferred Skills: Agility Jumps, Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Product Design, Report Writing, Requirements Analysis, Research and Development, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Scripting Languages, Software Architectures, Software Development Management, Software Engineering Practices, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Technologically Savvy
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 https://www.jnj.com/.
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