Johnson & Johnson

Director, Enterprise Observability and Automation

Johnson & Johnson • $150K — $258K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or related technology discipline.
  • 4+ years of experience leading teams in a global, matrixed environment.
  • Experience defining and implementing enterprise-scale observability strategies.
  • Proven track record in operational automation and AI-driven solutions.
  • Experience in regulated environments, translating compliance into engineering controls.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute a multi-year enterprise observability and automation strategy.
  • Establish a vendor-neutral target architecture for telemetry and data processing.
  • Set standards for observability data models and metadata handling.
  • Monitor AI and machine-learning solutions for performance and safety.
  • Advance intelligent operations through anomaly detection and automated analysis.
  • Collaborate with leaders to establish service-level objectives and indicators.
  • Manage the enterprise observability architecture and vendor relationships.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan participation.
  • Generous vacation and sick leave policies.
  • Parental leave and caregiver leave options.
  • Volunteer leave and military spouse time-off.
Full Job Description
Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management Job Sub Function: Technical Product Management Job Category: People Leader All Job Posting Locations: Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Singapore, Singapore Job Description: An internal pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However, all applications will be considered. Key Responsibilities  Primary Responsibilities 
  • Enterprise Observability Strategy: Define and execute a multi-year enterprise observability and automation strategy aligned with J&J Technology priorities, business outcomes, cybersecurity expectations, and the needs of Innovative Medicine, MedTech, and enterprise functions. 
  • Architecture and Telemetry: Define a vendor-neutral target architecture spanning telemetry collectors, agents, gateways, routing, processing, and backend platforms. 
  • Observability Data Strategy: Establish standards for data models, tagging and metadata, retention tiers, data residency, personally identifiable information handling, and cross-signal correlation. 
  • AI and AIOps: Establish lifecycle monitoring for AI, machine-learning, and agentic solutions, including performance, drift, latency, cost, quality, explainability, bias, safety signals, and human oversight. 
  • Intelligent Operations: Advance anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, event correlation, automated root-cause analysis, predictive operations, and remediation to reduce operational noise and improve resilience. 
  • Service Reliability: Partner with product, platform, and business technology leaders to establish service-level objectives, service-level indicators, error budgets, and experience measures for critical products and services. 
  • Portfolio and Vendor Management: Own the enterprise observability architecture, standards, roadmap, investment portfolio, and strategic vendor relationships across metrics, logs, traces, events, and digital experience telemetry. 
  • Governance and Risk: Collaborate with Information Security & Risk Management, privacy, quality, regulatory, legal, data, and responsible-AI partners to embed practical controls that support security, compliance, fairness, responsibility, and transparency. 
  • People Leadership: Build, lead, and develop high-performing teams spanning observability engineering, site reliability engineering, AI/ML platform engineering, and AIOps while fostering inclusion, accountability, and talent growth. 
Secondary Responsibilities 
  • Operational Resilience: Strengthen incident, problem, change, and knowledge-management practices through effective on-call operations, post-incident reviews, actionable problem management, and continuous learning. 
  • Executive Reporting: Provide leadership with clear insight into service health, AI performance, reliability risk, adoption, value realization, and investment priorities. 
  • Continuous Improvement: Drive simplification, interoperability, reuse, cost optimization, automation adoption, and measurable improvements in operational maturity. 
Required Qualifications & Skills  Experience 
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred. 
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, enterprise operations, or a related technology discipline. 
  • 4+ years of experience leading teams and/or people leaders in a global, matrixed environment. 
  • Demonstrated experience defining and implementing enterprise-scale observability strategies across business-critical applications and services. 
  • Proven experience implementing operational automation, orchestration, AIOps, or AI-driven solutions. 
  • Experience improving reliability, reducing mean time to detect and restore, simplifying tool landscapes, and optimizing technology spend. 
  • Experience working in a highly regulated environment and translating security, privacy, quality, and compliance expectations into practical engineering controls. 
Technical Skills 
  • Expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, events, digital experience monitoring, and large-scale telemetry pipelines. 
  • Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture, public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, and modern software delivery practices. 
  • Experience operating AI/ML or large-language-model solutions in production, including evaluation, monitoring, MLOps/LLMOps, guardrails, and model-risk controls. 
  • Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Telegraph, Clickhouse,cloud-native monitoring, or comparable technologies. 
  • Strong understanding of Incident, Problem, Change, and Knowledge Management processes and their integration with enterprise observability and automation. 
Leadership & Collaboration 
  • Exceptional communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity into risk, value, investment, and business decisions for senior leaders. 
  • Ability to lead through critical incidents, service disruption, ambiguity, and competing enterprise priorities. 
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous-improvement mindset. 
  • Demonstrated commitment to inclusive leadership, talent development, collaboration, and Our Credo values. 
Preferred Qualifications 
  • Experience with LLM observability, evaluation frameworks, agentic-AI runtime controls, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI guardrails. 
  • Familiarity with responsible-AI frameworks and evolving regulations and standards, including NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act. 
  • Experience managing large technology portfolios, enterprise observability spend, and strategic suppliers. 
  • Experience in healthcare, life sciences, medical technology, or another quality- and compliance-intensive industry. 
  • Relevant certifications in ITIL, Splunk, ServiceNow, cloud platforms, AI, machine learning, data analytics, or automation.
#LI-Hybrid #JNJTECH Required Skills:   Preferred Skills: Consistency, Creating Purpose, Developing Others, Green Manufacturing, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Process Control, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Reliability, Quality Processes, Representing, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Software Development Management, Software Reliability Engineering     The anticipated base pay range for this position is : $150,000 - $258,750 Additional Description for Pay Transparency: Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours  Additional information can be found through the link below.  https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

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