Ontology Developer, R&D Data Science & Digital Health - Data Strategy and Platforms
Join Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine as an Ontology Developer, R&D Data Science & Digital Health - Data Strategy and Platforms.
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.
Job Description
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Ontology Developer, R&D Data Science & Digital Health - Data Strategy and Platforms. The primary location is Barcelona or Madrid, Spain, but is also flexible to Titusville, NJ; Spring House, PA; or Cambridge, MA.
Job Responsibilities
* Design, build, and govern the semantic backbone that connects data across the pharmaceutical life cycle.
* Translate business concepts into well-formed ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and semantic standards.
* Model, code, test, and release ontology modules and mappings that power knowledge graph, master/reference data, analytics, and AI/ML applications.
* Develop and maintain ontologies representing domain-specific knowledge in healthcare and life sciences for drug discovery.
* Own the ontology roadmap for key domains and define scope, use cases, and success metrics.
* Model and govern the ontology using OWL, RDFS, SKOS, and SHACL.
* Implement data quality checks and contribute to validation reports.
Job Qualifications
* Desired Ph.D. or master's degree in bioengineering, computer science, IT, bioinformatics, physics, mathematics, or related fields.
* 3-5+ years of hands-on ontology/knowledge modeling, taxonomy design, and metadata standards.
* Proficiency with OWL, RDF(S), SKOS, SHACL, SPARQL, and ontology design patterns.
* Demonstrated experience in large-scale knowledge graphs construction, ontology development, and pharmaceutical or healthcare domains integration.
* Strong skills in analysis, problem-solving, organizational change, project delivery, and managing external vendors.
Johnson & Johnson is an equal employment opportunity company.
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