Toxicology Platforms Tech Product Owner

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Spring House (PA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

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. You will own technical strategy, roadmaps and delivery for toxicology platforms, serving scientists across locations.

Role requires translating scientific needs into technical requirements, guiding architecture, data pipelines, and integrations with LIMS/ELN.

Qualifications

• 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

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.

Skills

Python/R

SQL

REST APIs

Containerization

CI/CD

Cloud environments

Technical leadership

Data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

LIMS

ELN

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. You will own technical strategy, roadmaps and delivery for toxicology platforms, serving scientists across locations.

Role requires translating scientific needs into technical requirements, guiding architecture, data pipelines, and integrations with LIMS/ELN.