Sr. Manager, Medtech Technology Software Engineering and Portfolio Management

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Raritan, NJ +1

This role is for a Sr. Manager, MedTech Technology Software Engineering and Portfolio Management at Johnson & Johnson. The individual will own the vision, strategy, and technical delivery for MedTech Engineering Solutions and Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) technologies. They will work with business owners, product management, and suppliers to deliver technology solutions that drive business value within the R&D product lifecycle, focusing on CAx ecosystem and PPM solutions. The role involves leading product discovery, maintaining a technical product backlog, establishing operating models, partnering with architecture and security, driving lifecycle decisions, and managing product change control in a regulated environment. A key responsibility is to continuously improve the product by identifying automation and AI opportunities, managing technical debt, and providing best practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for MedTech R&D Engineering Solutions and PPM capabilities, translating business outcomes into prioritized epics/features and measurable OKRs.
  2. Lead product discovery with engineering, architects, and business stakeholders to define user personas, problem statements, value hypotheses, and acceptance criteria for platform and integration capabilities.
  3. Maintain a healthy technical product backlog: write and refine epics/features/user stories, manage cross-team dependencies, and balance business value, risk, compliance needs, and technical feasibility across release horizons.
  4. Establish the product operating model with platform and product teams (cadences, decision rights, intake/prioritization, and release readiness) to ensure transparent alignment, fast decisions, and predictable delivery.
  5. Partner with Enterprise Architecture and security to ensure product requirements and non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, privacy, and security) are defined and met, and that solutions align to enterprise standards (APIs, data, approved technologies).

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrable experience leading teams of employees and/or contractors, including goal setting and career development
  • Demonstrable experience leading multiple global efforts with time & cost related constraints in a fast-paced regulated environment
  • Experienced in software product development lifecycle, leading a product backlog, managing release plans, removing blockers and leading teams operating in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Strong facilitation, collaboration & influencing skills; ability to form relationships, empower and collaborate at all levels in the organization and interact optimally across the regional and global organizati

Nice to have

  • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related field highly preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated environment
  • GxP/SOX/ISRM
  • compliance needs