Senior Manager – R&D; Data Science Digital Health, Data Quality
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Job Function and Location
• Job Function: Data Analytics & Computational Sciences
• Job Sub‑Function: Data Science
• Job Category: Scientific/Technology
• Location: Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Position Summary
The Senior Manager R&D; Data Quality will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and plausibility of data assets leveraged by the R&D; Data Science Digital Health organization. Collaborating across Innovative Medicine (including R&D;, Commercial, Supply Chain and Manufacturing), this individual will define quality guidelines for the R&D; DSDH organization and ensure pull through of enterprise‑wide data quality strategies, standards, and processes. This role bridges business, scientific and technology teams—ensuring that data used for research, regulatory submissions and analytics meet the highest quality and compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a data quality management framework aligned with GxP, FAIR and enterprise principles.
- Define data quality dimensions and establish measurable KPIs.
- Partner with Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Regulatory and Master Data Management teams to ensure traceability and alignment across domains.
- Contribute to data stewardship, defining ownership and escalation procedures for quality issues.
- Lead data validation activities across multiple data types including clinical, real‑world, omics, manufacturing and digital health.
- Identify and enable the use of tools, driving data quality automation and monitoring.
- Design dashboards and reports to convey key metrics and communicate insights to scientists and leadership.
- Lead root cause analyses for data issues and oversee development of remediation plans.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, Global Functions, Real World Evidence, Clinical Data Management, General Regulatory, J&J; Technology, Epidemiology and Commercial organization to understand current controls and assess need for subsequent controls.
- Act as liaison between R&D; DSDH and J&J; Technology, translating quality requirements into technical rules and validation workflows.
- Ensure data quality processes align with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GCP, GDPR, HIPAA and ALCOA+ principles.
- Support audit readiness by maintaining documentation and evidence of processes.
- Drive adoption of AI‑assisted tools and metadata‑driven automation to reduce overhead.
- Stay current on emerging data quality trends in pharma and healthcare.
- Mentor junior quality analysts.
Qualifications
- University or bachelor’s degree (equivalent); 8–12+ years in pharma/biotech R&D; or commercial functions with significant exposure to data management, or 6+ years with advanced degree.
- Experience in master data management, ontology development, knowledge graph application.
- Understanding of controlled vocabularies (e.g., SNOMED CT, MedDRA, LOINC).
- Experience in data profiling and validation, including tools and SQL, Python and/or R.
- Experience integrating data across discovery, development, clinical, regulatory and/or commercial domains.
- Strong understanding of data standardization and harmonization.
- Experience working in validated environments.
- Knowledge of FDA/EMA guidelines, GxP, ALCOA+ principles, 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.
- Awareness of CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, HDF5, H5mu standards.
- Strong leadership, communication, cross‑functional collaboration and writing skills.
Equal Opportunity Statement
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 & 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 contact.
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