Sr Mgr, Forward Deployed Engineer, Research Systems

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: Technology Product & Platform Management Job Sub Function: Technical Product Management Job Category: People Leader All Job Posting Locations: PENJERLA, Telangana, India Job Description: The Senior Manager, Research IT Systems is a people leader accountable for the strategy, delivery, integration, and lifecycle management of digital platforms that enable pharmaceutical research across spectrum. The role leads a team of technical specialists and partners with scientists, product leaders, architects, quality, security, data, and platform teams to translate research priorities into secure, scalable, compliant, and user-centred technology capabilities. This leader will build organizational capability, modernize the research technology landscape, and ensure that laboratory systems, scientific data, automation, and digital workflows accelerate Design-Make-Test-Analyze cycles and high-quality scientific decision-making.

People Leadership & Organisational Capability Lead, coach, and develop a multi-disciplinary team that may include software engineers, application developers, business systems analysts, technical product owners, integration specialists, and platform leads. Set clear objectives, establish accountability, conduct meaningful performance and career-development conversations, and build succession and capability plans. Own workforce planning, role design, hiring, onboarding, retention, and the effective use of employees, contractors, and strategic partners. Create an inclusive, high-performing culture focused on scientific impact, engineering excellence, customer partnership, innovation, and continuous learning. Develop future leaders and delegate platform, product, and delivery accountabilities to appropriate team members while maintaining effective oversight. Define team operating mechanisms, capacity plans, communities of practice, and technical standards that enable consistent delivery across multiple products and squads. Research Technology Strategy & Stakeholder Partnership Partner with research scientists and R&D leaders to understand scientific workflows, identify high-value technology opportunities, and shape an integrated Research IT strategy and roadmap. Own a portfolio of research systems and capabilities, aligning priorities, investments, resources, dependencies, risks, and outcomes with business and scientific objectives. Represent Research IT in governance forums and communicate strategy, progress, decisions, risks, and value to senior stakeholders. Build trusted partnerships across Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Data and AI, Cybersecurity, Quality, Privacy, Infrastructure, and global R&D functions. Champion user-centred discovery, product adoption, change management, and measurable value realization across scientific communities. Supervise external trends in research informatics, laboratory automation, scientific computing, cloud, data, and AI and translate them into pragmatic opportunities. Research Platforms, Architecture & Integration Provide strategic and technical oversight for research platforms such as ELN, LIMS, SDMS, laboratory