Data & Digital Application Lead

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

Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Pharmaceutical Product R&D

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

As data & digital application lead within our Synthetics Development team and play a pivotal role in reshaping how we develop small molecule medicine & therapies designing innovative digital solutions for our scientists & engineers.

Your role will be incremental in unlocking the power of data for the organization by means of effective AI/ML based data processing applications and digital transformation strategies and will accelerate the impact of data through integrating advanced analytics and AI/ML modelling workflows in our development processes to improve data driven decision-making.

Your focus will be to design and coordinate scalable innovative data science applications enabling scientists & engineers to harness  the power of data into their research.

We invite you to be a part in shaping and redefining the future of Synthetic Molecule Research & Development and by joining our new synthetic digital leadership team you will be surrounded by passionate scientists & digital leaders and your contributions can truly make a difference! 

Role and responsibilities

-Digital and Data solution lead



* Bridge scientific challenges to data science and translate these scientific requirements into impactful digital solutions.


* Lead cross-functional digital & data science projects:
+  collaborate with scientific domain experts and key users across the organization to capture needs & ensure alignment and integration of data science initiatives with organizational goals.
+ Collaborate with data science & digital domain experts like IT, Data Science & Statistics to transform scientific needs into digital solutions.


* Design, develop, and maintain new and existing digital solutions, using languages and frameworks such as Python, R, , rdkit, cdk, pytorch, tensorflow, with direct code contributions under version control (git) leveraging cloud infrastructure and containerisation (docker) in close collaboration with IT & data science


* Shape and follow an agile development and deployment strategy that allows delivering high impact over fast development cycles and iterations, while keeping an eye on sustainability and scalability once products reach mature stable state within...