Job Description

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

Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for R&D Data Science and Digital Health,   Senior Principal   Scientist ,   Real-World Evidence (RWE) . This position has   a primary   location   of   Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA; Cambridge, MA; or La Jolla, CA.  

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine develops treatments that improve the health of people worldwide. Research and development areas encompass oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, immunology, pulmonary hypertension, retinal disorders, and neuroscience. Our goal is to help people live longer, healthier lives. We have produced and marketed many first-in-class prescription medications and are poised to serve the broad needs of the healthcare market – from patients to practitioners and from clinic s to hospitals. To learn more about Janssen, one of the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, visit  

The R&D Data Science RWE team within Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines develops innovative insights and solutions bringing to bear a variety of different data sources across multiple disease areas. We are looking for outstanding   scientist   and   leader   whose responsibilities include:  

• Be a hands-on technical leader, leading a portfolio of RWE projects while instituting best practices, and developing common technical tools, crafting a data-driven culture, of accelerating, scaling and   prodcutionalizing   deliverables while mentoring and educating peers in the adoption of technical best practices and common tools.  

• Identify   common technical requirements for RWE projects, develop and   maintain   a common suite of tools that   enables   RWE data scientists to accelerate delivery and scale common deliverables.  

• End-to-end   expertise   in RWE studies   including   conceptualizing   the research   questions, data feasibility, study design, analysis, programming, and interpretation.  

• Provide thought leadership and hand-on programming   expertise   for developing,   adapting   and delivering Real-World Data (“RWD”) methodologies to mitigate observed and unobserved bias and confounding in the execution of comparative effectiveness analyses, time-to-event analyses, external control arm studies, hybrid control arm studies,   retrospective   and prospective study designs.  

• Provide thought leadership and hand-on programming   expertise   to   generating   RWE or secondary evidence from post-hoc RCT analyses, observational databases, and literature reviews to support regulatory agency interactions.  

• Independently create study protocols, statistical analysis plans, and statistical programming deliverables including analysis-ready data, tables, and figures using   appropriate statistical   analysis software while instituting best practices for execution across the broader team.  

• Experience creating pipelines, functions, packages to perform   frequently   used actions and/or deliverables across broad group of stakeholders.  

• Partner with the Data Science Therapeutic Area scientists to conceptualize, lead, shape and deliver Real World Evidence, and advanced analytics solutions and insights for prioritized use cases taking ownership of one or more disease area evidence generation teams.  

Required qualifications:  

• A Ph.D. degree, or master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, or similar) 

• At least 5 years of relevant experience within start-up, technology, biopharma or healthcare industries, or highly relevant academic experience, on a case-by-case basis  

• Extensive hands-on experience with data engineering and   exploratory   data analysis, statistical modeling, time-to-event analyses, comparative effectiveness analyses, causal inference methods to mitigate observed and residual confounding (e.g., propensity score matching/weighting, instrumental variables, state transition models) 

• Demonstrated   expertise   with multiple real-world data sources (EHR, insurance claims, registry data). Familiarity with data structure and programming of clinical trial data  

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills  

• Extensive experience with database programming and use of statistical programming languages including expert   proficiency   in   either,   R or Python working   proficiency   in SAS and SQL  

• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead in developing,   testing   and   maintaining   technical frameworks for RWE analyses  

• Extensive knowledge of RWE Common Data Models (OMOP, FHIR, i2b2) & Analysis frameworks (OHDSI,   pharmaverse ) 

Preferred qualifications:  

• Familiarity with drug discovery and the clinical development process  

• Expertise   in oncology, Immunology or Neuroscience drug development  

• Experience in regulatory-grade evidence, communicating and responding to agency reviews and comments.  

 

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal,   state   or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.   

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact   AskGS   to be directed to your accommodation resource.  
 

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$137,000 - $235,750

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Additional Description for Pay Transparency Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. § Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). § Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: – Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year – Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year – Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year – Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Additional information can be found through the link below.

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