Data Product Lead

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · New Brunswick, NJ +1

The Data Product Lead will be responsible for building, operating, and improving core data platform and data quality capabilities. This role supports enterprise analytics, reporting, and AI use cases by ensuring data platforms are reliable, secure, cost-aware, and easy to use. The position focuses on hands-on delivery, platform reliability, and practical enablement, measured by platform adoption, consistency of standards, and improved trust in data.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the technical ownership and day‑to‑day operation of enterprise data platforms, including the Databricks Intelligence Platform.
  2. Implement and maintain platform standards, patterns, and reusable components for data ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
  3. Contribute to the implementation and support of enterprise data quality tools and frameworks.
  4. Build and support batch and streaming data pipelines that align to platform and quality standards.
  5. Partner with Technology Services to support platform reliability, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
  • 5–7+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics platforms, or data infrastructure roles.
  • 3+ Years of hands‑on experience working with modern data platforms or Lakehouse technologies (such as Databricks or similar).
  • Experience implementing data ingestion, transformation, and validation in production systems.
  • Familiarity with data quality concepts and tools, including rule‑based validation and monitoring.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, and secure engineering practices.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting or operating enterprise data quality platforms.
  • Exposure to data catalog, metadata, or lineage tools.
  • Experience modernizing or supporting migration from legacy ETL or data warehouse tools.
  • Familiarity with Python, SQL, Spark, and scripting for automation and orchestration.
  • Experience working in cloud environments such as Azure and/or AWS.

What the JD emphasized

  • hands-on delivery
  • platform reliability
  • practical enablement
  • data quality concepts and tools
  • modern data platforms or Lakehouse technologies