Sr Eng RD Soft Eng

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: R&D Product Development Job Sub Function: R&D Software/Systems Engineering Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Job Description:

The Lead Software Engineer for R&D Technology is responsible for the design and delivery of solutions that underpin next-generation R&D capabilities across small molecules, peptides, and oligonucleotides. This role bridges scientific needs with scalable technology solutions, ensuring automation, data, and digital platforms accelerate DMTA cycles and enable high-quality decision-making.

Architecture & Technical Leadership Design, build and support integrations across core business lab systems Define and maintain the Engineering and Technology architecture vision, roadmap, and standards for the Synthetics Development domain. Lead the technical architecture across squads, ensuring alignment to enterprise patterns, reusable components, and modern engineering practices. Drive evaluation, design, and selection of technical solution options; build, test, and validate architectural concepts and prototypes; contribute production code to critical technical paths. Translate sophisticated business and scientific requirements into scalable and actionable technical designs. Drive technical decisions to ensure long-term sustainability. Collaborate with platform and product teams to leverage of enterprise capabilities (AWS, data platforms, workflow engines, lab systems). Engineering Excellence & Operations Develop a technical understanding of the existing lab systems, their business use cases and how to build integrations with them. Own CI/CD pipeline architecture and automation strategy. Establish observability and operational excellence standards across platforms. Manage technical debt and maintain system health through proactive refactoring and modernization. Manage development and review cadence; align technology landscape across squads to promote interoperability, modularity, and scalability.

Leadership & Development Mentor and develop engineering talent across squads. Establish engineering standards and review practices. Lead technical hiring and team scaling. Governance & Lifecycle Management Own lifecycle management for domain technologies, including the Product API catalog and integrations governance. Ensure architectural compliance with security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory standards. Establish policies and standards for responsible AI tool usage in regulated/validated environments. Monitor emerging technology trends in lab automation, cloud engineering, AI/ML, and scientific computing. Conduct research spikes and feasibility assessments for new capabilities relevant to synthetic workflows and workflow automation.

Required 5-7+ years of software engineering experience. Track record of leading technical initiatives from concept to production. Strong foundational skills in IT, including database design, data engineering, cloud computing, and architecture principles. Proven track record to translate sophisticated scientific and business needs