Johnson & Johnson

Manager, Data Quality

Johnson & Johnson$117K — $201K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as information systems, data analytics, or life sciences.
  • 5+ years of experience in data quality or management within an enterprise environment.
  • Strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly commercial business processes.
  • Hands-on knowledge of key commercial pharmaceutical data areas like sales and claims.
  • Experience in defining and implementing data quality rules and standards.
  • Proficiency with SQL or similar scripting to manage large datasets effectively.
  • Demonstrated expertise in leading cross-functional initiatives and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead data quality strategy and continuous improvement initiatives across key data domains.
  • Define and maintain data quality standards, controls, and monitoring practices.
  • Establish quality requirements for onboarding new data sources and products.
  • Develop metrics and scorecards to track data quality and service expectations.
  • Monitor data quality dashboards to identify trends and operational risks.
  • Coordinate root-cause analysis for data quality issues involving various internal and external teams.
  • Drive corrective actions to ensure timely remediation of defects.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous vacation and sick leave policies.
  • 401(k) and pension plan participation.
  • Parental and caregiver leave options.
  • Volunteer time off and military spouse time-off.
  • Participation in long-term incentive programs.
Full Job Description
Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for Manager, Data Quality

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Purpose:

The Manager, Data Quality is accountable for improving the integrity of data across the One Data Platform (ODP). The role leads data quality operations, business-rule validation, data profiling, monitoring, and issue remediation to ensure enterprise data products are accurate, complete, consistent, timely, and fit for use in reporting, analytics, artificial intelligence, and business decision-making. This role provides functional leadership for delivery partners, establishes priorities, develops team capabilities, and is accountable for the quality and timeliness of data quality services across ODP.

The Manager partners with commercial business teams, data product owners, master data management, data governance, analytics teams, and external data providers to establish ownership, embed preventive controls, resolve recurring issues, and improve platform trust and adoption across J&J Innovative Medicine

You will be responsible for:

Data Quality Strategy & Execution
  • Lead the execution and continuous improvement of the data quality strategy across datasets, prioritizing critical commercial and enterprise data domains based on business impact and risk.
  • Define and maintain data quality standards, controls, acceptance criteria, and monitoring practices.
  • Establish quality requirements and readiness checks for onboarding new data sources and data products.
  • Develop and track data quality metrics, scorecards, service expectations, and improvement plans.
  • Help make data business-ready and AI-ready through consistent, measurable quality controls.
  • Explore responsible use of AI-enabled methods to identify, explain, prioritize, and prevent data quality issues.


Data Quality Operations
  • Lead day-to-day data profiling, validation, reconciliation, exception management, and issue triage across ODP.
  • Monitor data quality dashboards and identify trends, recurring defects, and operational risks.
  • Coordinate root-cause analysis with data engineering, source-system teams, data providers, and business owners.
  • Drive corrective and preventive actions, track issue ownership, and ensure timely remediation of priority defects.
  • Validate that fixes address the underlying cause and do not create downstream business impact.
  • Work with internal teams and external data providers to improve the quality, consistency, and timeliness of inbound commercial data.
  • Partner with business teams supporting customer, account, affiliation, sales, prescription, market access, payer, field, targeting, alignment, and incentive compensation data.


Qualifications / Requirements:

Required
  • Bachelor's degree in information systems, data analytics, computer science, engineering, business, life sciences, or related field.
  • 5+ years of progressive experience in data quality or data management, including hands-on responsibility for defining controls, monitoring data health, and leading issue remediation in an enterprise data environment.
  • Strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and commercial pharma business processes, with practical domain knowledge of how commercial data supports customer engagement, field execution, reporting, analytics, and decision-making.
  • Hands-on knowledge of commercial pharmaceutical data, including several of the following: Professional and account master data, affiliations, sales, claims, market access, payer, field activity, targeting, alignment, and incentive compensation.
  • Experience defining data quality rules and applying core dimensions such as accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness.
  • Experience supporting enterprise data platforms, cloud data environments, analytics platforms, or governed data products.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives, setting priorities, influencing senior stakeholders, and coaching team members or delivery partners.
  • Experience supporting data used for AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, or semantic data products.
  • Experience applying AI-assisted techniques for data profiling, anomaly detection, rule generation, matching, classification, root-cause analysis, and issue prioritization.
  • Proficiency using approved AI assistants to accelerate analysis, SQL creation, documentation, and issue investigation while protecting confidential pharmaceutical data.


Technical Skills
  • SQL or scripting language: Strong hands-on ability to profile large datasets, validate business rules, reconcile data across sources, investigate anomalies, and support root-cause analysis.
  • Data quality controls: Experience designing and implementing automated checks for accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness.
  • Data pipelines and integration: Working knowledge of ETL/ELT processes, source-to-target mappings, data lineage, APIs, file-based ingestion, and pipeline monitoring.
  • Cloud data platforms: Hands-on experience with Snowflake, AWS, or a comparable modern data platform.
  • Data quality and observability tools: Experience using data quality, metadata, catalog, lineage, governance, master data management, or observability tools.
  • Production troubleshooting and delivery practices: Experience reviewing logs, tracing data across pipelines, assessing downstream impact, coordinating technical remediation, and working with Git, testing, release management, and controlled deployment of data-quality rules.


Preferred
  • Experience in J&J Innovative Medicine or a comparable global pharmaceutical organization, including familiarity with regulated data practices and cross-functional commercial operating models.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or similar modern cloud data platforms.
  • Experience managing service partners, data vendors, or distributed delivery teams.


Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:
Advanced Analytics, Compliance Management, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Privacy Standards, Data Quality, Data Reporting, Data Savvy, Data Science, Data Visualization, Developing Others, Digital Fluency, Give Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Proactive Behavior, Resource Allocation, Strategic Thinking, Team Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $117,000 and $201,250 USD.

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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