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Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences:

Job Sub Function:

Data Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine seeks a Senior Data Automation Engineer for its Leiden, Netherlands facility.

The Global Engineering & Technology (GET) team delivers Engineering, Maintenance, and Automation activities. At J&J Innovative Medicine Biologics in Leiden, we produce medicines using living cells and advanced technology, with a focus on cancer and immunological disorders. Our Automation department implements, validates, qualifies, and maintains manufacturing automated systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory and company standards.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Data Automation Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and sustain manufacturing data automation solutions, contributing to our digital strategy. You’ll set technical direction for data integration standards, collaborate with Automation, IT, and business teams, and deliver high-quality datasets for operations and analytics.

You’ll manage the site historian and contextualization layer (OSI PI / PI AF), improve the Leiden Information Model, and define data management standards and roadmaps. You should be a strong communicator, skilled in collaboration and change management, with a keen interest in new technologies and digitalization challenges.

Responsibilities & Impact:

• Partner with Automation, Operations, IT, and digital groups to align on data automation designs.

• Build and manage automated data pipelines from manufacturing systems to the site data platform.

• Define data contextualization and standardization aligned with ISA-95 and site/global standards.

• Evolve the OT contextualization model and adoption patterns.

• Ensure data quality and reliability; lead troubleshooting and corrective actions.

• Support GxP-compliant delivery, documentation, risk assessments, and audits.

Who you are:

You hold a technical Master’s degree or equivalent experience. You’re passionate about new technologies, and can work independently across the solution lifecycle, influencing stakeholders in a regulated environment.

• Experience in biotechnological/pharma GxP environments; knowledge of GAMP required.

• Experience delivering technical solutions in manufacturing.

• Strategic thinking, change management, and stakeholder collaboration.

• Understanding of the data lifecycle and translating use cases into scalable datasets.

• Familiarity with data management, process excellence tools (Lean, Six Sigma), and manufacturing process analytics.

• Experience with OSI PI / AVEVA PI, PI AF, and historian data governance.

• Programming skills.

• Experience working in global, remote teams and digital projects.

What awaits you at J&J:

Join an enthusiastic, innovative team focused on personal and professional growth. Enjoy training, development, and a competitive compensation and benefits package, including:

The expected gross base salary for this role is between 53.500 EUR - 84 445 EUR, and includes 8% holiday allowance

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, and programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.

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