Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking a Manager, Abiomed Product Group Engineer to join our Abiomed IT team based in Danvers, MA.
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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Key Responsibilities:
I. Technology Architecture
- Proactively partner with Product and Platform teams, Product Group Engineers and enterprise architects, to design scalable, flexible and supportable technical systems that add business value and are aligned with the Abiomed technology strategy as well as enterprise patterns and standards.
- Coordinate and lead an Abiomed Product Group Engineer guild, driving architecture engagement throughout the product development, including:
- Design, development, maintenance and socialization of reference architecture patterns.
- Development, approval and enforcement of standards.
- Creation and/or approval of solution designs and modifications.
- Co-design of critical metrics and measurements.
- Evaluation of technologies and partnerships.
- Work with product and platform owners in the creation of multi-year roadmaps that are aligned to established architectural principles and patterns, as well as business strategy.
- Continually evaluate the technology landscape for pioneering and/or ground-breaking technologies that confer a competitive advantage to the business.
- Become a key enabler to drive down the total cost of ownership and complexity across the application landscape.
- Selectively embed with product development teams when strong architecture engagement is required.
II. Application Lifecycle Management
- Continually drive the identification of opportunities for application rationalization to simplify the Abiomed application portfolio with Business Unit IT (BUIT) partners.
- Work with architecture tools and datasets such as MEGA/ALM Dashboards and application inventories to gather, maintain, and effectively use application and technology lifecycle management (ALM, TLM) data.
- Drive the education of application owners to raise awareness on the importance and adoption of ALM standard processes.
- Lead targeted application inventory activities sought at curating the CMDB and engaging technical application owners (TAO) to accurately maintain business services and applications.
- Collaborate with solution leads, technology services, product line owners and other enterprise architects to align the total cost of ownership findings into our annual business planning and portfolio management processes to ensure lifecycle management is incorporated into multi-year investment plans.
III. Global Enterprise Teamwork
- Partner with technology services, product lines, and other enterprise architects within the larger J&J organization to influence enterprise technology strategies and find opportunities for bi-directional leverage across sectors and business units.
- Periodically represent Abiomed within the global J&J enterprise realm during knowledge sharing activities.
Qualifications
Required:
- BA/BS degree in a technical, engineering or scientific field and 8 years of equivalent business or technology experience is required.
- 6 years of technology experience architecting platforms and solutions in an enterprise context with a consistent track record of success operating in a complex, ambiguous, fast paced environment.
- Hands-on experience with at least several of the following technologies: public/private cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualization, AI/ML, IoT, micro-services, data warehousing and ETL.
- Experience with system development lifecycle methodology.
- Experience leading technical conversations, workshops and workstreams to consensus/conclusions/actions.
- Proven ability to understand and articulate business requirements, direction, and initiatives, including ability to balance requirements from an enterprise, sector and franchise/region level.
- Ability to translate business strategy into technology strategy within a complex and matrixed environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to translate and transform complex topics into concise architectural diagrams and presentations.
- Strong ability to build and manage relationships at various levels, both inside and outside an organization.
- Experience with at least several of the following methodologies: agile, design thinking, Katas, TOGAF and problem-solving methods.
- Experience working in regulated environment (e.g. GxP, HIPAA, GDPR ...).
Preferred:
- Knowledge of healthcare processes, data and terminology.
- Experience working in a multi-functional or cross-geographic context.
- Ability to context switch between multiple complex and fast-moving projects while maintaining high quality and rapid delivery.
- Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Lead Engineer, or CTO in a healthcare or MedTech company.
Other:
- 20% Travel
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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.