Senior Quality Engineer. QMS

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer focused on Quality Systems in Athens, GA. You will lead validation activities for computerized systems and digital solutions within a regulated environment, collaborating across Quality, Manufacturing, and IT to ensure systems are fit for intended use and maintained in a validated state.

Responsibilities include developing CSV strategies, reviewing validation lifecycle documents, and guiding change control.

Qualifications

• Experience leading validation and quality-system activities.
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical validation plans.
• Strong collaboration with Quality, Manufacturing and IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical quality leadership for computerized systems and digital solutions in a regulated environment.
• Develop and execute Computerized System Validation strategies with risk-based approaches.
• Review lifecycle documents: validation plans, user requirements, functional specs, risk assessments, test scripts, and validation reports.
• Provide change management guidance on validation strategies based on use, complexity, and risk.
• Oversee implementation, upgrades, and retirement of computerized systems.
• Investigate validation discrepancies and system-related quality issues to support CAPAs.
• Ensure systems remain in a controlled state and data integrity is maintained throughout lifecycle.
• Lead risk assessments and use results to prioritize verification activities.
• Support audits and inspections with documentation and responses.

Skills

Quality systems

Validation (CSV)

Risk-based mindset

Data integrity

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

GxP

Change control

Audit readiness

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. 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 Details

Job Function: Quality

Job Sub Function: Quality Systems

Job Category: Professional

All Job Posting Locations: Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Job Description

The Senior Quality Engineer provides technical quality leadership for computerized systems, equipment, and digital solutions used within a regulated environment. This role is responsible for developing and executing Computerized System Validation (CSV) strategies, applying risk-based approaches to qualification and validation, providing quality guidance with change management, and ensuring systems and processes maintain appropriate data integrity throughout their lifecycle.

The Senior Quality Systems Engineer partners with Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, IT, Automation, system owners, and business process owners to ensure that systems are fit for intended use, appropriately controlled, and maintained in a validated state. The position serves as a subject matter expert and provides practical, risk-based guidance that balances compliance requirements, patient/product risk, and operational needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Support qualification and validation activities for equipment, systems, including computerized systems used in regulated business and manufacturing processes.
• Apply a risk-based approach to determine the appropriate scope and rigor of qualification and validation activities.
• Review and approve lifecycle documentation such as validation plans, user requirements, functional and configuration specifications, risk assessments, test protocols/scripts, traceability documentation, validation reports, and system retirement documentation.
• Provide change management direction and guidance on appropriate validation strategies based on intended use, system complexity, regulatory impact, and risk.
• Provide quality oversight for implementation, upgrades, configuration changes, integrations, migrations and retirement of computerized systems.
• Support investigation and resolution of validation discrepancies, test failures, and system-related quality issues.
• Ensure validated systems remain in a controlled state throughout their operational lifecycle.
• Facilitate and/or participate in system, process, and functional risk assessments.
• Use risk assessments to focus verification activities on functions that have the greatest potential impact on product quality, patient safety, data integrity, or regulatory compliance.
• Support qualification strategies for equipment, infrastructure, automation, and computerized systems, as applicable.
• Serve as a technical quality resource for data integrity assessments and remediation activities.
• Evaluate systems and processes for controls supporting ALCOA+ data integrity principles.
• Assess areas such as user access, roles and permissions, audit trails, electronic records, electronic signatures, data retention, backup/recovery, interfaces, and data lifecycle controls.
• Participate in periodic reviews and assessments of computerized systems to verify that systems remain fit for intended use and appropriately controlled.
• Support investigations involving suspected data-integrity issues and assist in determining appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with system owners and IT to identify sustainable controls for data governance and system administration.

QS & Tech Leadership

• Provide subject matter expertise and guidance on validation, qualification, change control, and data integrity requirements.
• Interpret regulatory and industry expectations and translate them into practical, risk-based quality solutions.
• Coach engineers, system owners, validation personnel, and cross-functional partners on compliant validation and quality-system practices.
• Support inspection and audit readiness, including preparation of documentation and responses to questions related to computerized systems and validation.
• Participate in internal audits, regulatory inspections, and remediation activities as needed.
• Identify recurring compliance or process issues and recommend systemic improvements.
• Lead or contribute to continuous-improvement initiatives that simplify validation processes while maintaining effective quality.