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 Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

PENJERLA, Telangana, India

The APAC Business Technology Team within Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, is looking for an extraordinary GenAI and Machine Learning Engineering Lead who is passionate about crafting, developing, and fielding data science solutions that drive impact for HCP (Health Care Professional) and patients.

Specifically, we are looking for

A senior, hands-on engineering leader, to build and scale production-grade full-stack GenAI solutions with a strong emphasis on backend systems, data, and AI/ML engineering This role is expected to operate as a true partner to Business leaders - co-framing problems, influencing solution strategy, and co-owning measurable user and business outcomes - not as an execution-only engineering function.

You will lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise GenAI/ML products, set engineering standards for production readiness, and elevate team capability through strong technical leadership and mentorship.

You will be someone who stays on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, data science and software engineering through novel project execution and development of algorithms that improve organizational performance and commercial effectiveness. You will work with matrixed teams across business and technology, and will be part of a dynamic, accomplished organization that will support multiple therapeutic areas.

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

Product & Business Partnership

• Co-own problem discovery with Product/Business: translate objectives into well-defined, testable problem statements, user journeys, and technical hypotheses.
• Challenge assumptions and requirements using user insights, data realities, feasibility constraints, and system impact; recommend alternatives when they better achieve outcomes.
• Define and track success metrics (e.g., adoption, time saved, conversion, accuracy/quality, latency, reliability, cost-to-serve, risk reduction) and drive iteration when targets aren’t met.
• Communicate clearly with executive, business, and engineering audiences - articulating trade-offs, decisions, and rationale.

Solution Leadership

• Lead end-to-end solution for GenAI products: APIs, services, data pipelines, orchestration, LLM integration, retrieval, tool-calling, and UI/UX touchpoints as needed.
• Make disciplined architectural trade-offs across performance, reliability, cost, extensibility, maintainability, and time-to-value.
• Design for enterprise realities identity/access, data residency, compliance constraints, multi-environment deployments, and integration with core systems.
• Drive platform thinking: prioritize reusable components (libraries, templates, shared services) over one-off builds.

Agentic & Full-Stack GenAI Applications

• Build and scale agentic GenAI applications that solve multi-step workflows on cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Define and implement robust LLM patterns (prompting, RAG, tool orchestration, validation, and evaluation).
• Implement LLMOps and lifecycle governance for models and prompts, including versioning, evaluation and monitoring.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for quality, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Embed Responsible AI, security, and compliance by design, partnering with Risk, Legal, and Security.

Engineering Excellence & DevOps

• Provide hands-on leadership across the SDLC design reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, code reviews, security reviews, and operational readiness.
• Establish robust CI/CD and standardized environments for services and AI components utilizing cloud services.
• Ensure operational excellence through observability, incident management, reliability practices, and cost optimization.

Research and Innovation:

• Stay current with the latest advancements in Generative AI, cloud technologies, and ML/LLMOps practices, and proactively translate relevant insights into team and platform adoption.
• Evaluate emerging tools, techniques, and methodologies to enhance GenAI capabilities, developer productivity, and operational efficiency, integrating them into platforms and solutions where they add value.
• Lead targeted experimentation and proofs of concept, scaling successful ideas into robust, production-ready solution

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven track record in designing and building GenAI solutions, with a strong expertise in prompt engineering, LlamaIndex, Langchain, RAG, Agentic AI workflow, Knowledge graph, AI red teaming libraries, LLM monitoring and evaluation.
• Over 7+ years of experience in the software development lifecycle as a developer, with a focus on writing production code.
• Must have hands-on experience working with software development toolkits, and devOps automation like Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and Git.
• Excellent programming skills in Python and proficiency in PySpark.
• Experience in DataBricks, AWS bedrock, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure ML is plus.
• Strong leadership skill with ability to influence the thought process and drive alignment.
• Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated and highly driven individual who can thrive in ambiguous requirements.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Advanced Analytics, Consulting, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Privacy Standards, Data Quality, Data Reporting, Data Savvy, Data Science, Data Visualization, Digital Fluency, Econometric Models, Mentorship, Strategic Thinking, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility