Ontology Developer RD 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, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.

Job Function : Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function : Data Science

Job Category : Scientific / Technology

All Job Posting Locations : Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

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.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Engineers 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.

Job Responsibilities

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Ontology Developer, Data Strategy and Products to design, build, and govern the semantic backbone that connects data across pharmaceutical life cycle. You'll translate business concepts into well-formed ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and semantic standards that power interoperability, search and discovery, analytics, and AI / ML.

• Model, code, test, and release ontology modules and mappings that power knowledge graph, master / reference data, analytics, and AI / LLM applications.
• Translate domain knowledge from subject-matter experts into OWL / RDF classes and properties, SKOS vocabularies, and SHACL constraints, and publish validated, versioned packages and APIs for broad reuse.
• Develop and maintain ontologies representing domain-specific knowledge in healthcare and life sciences for drug discovery
• Own the ontology roadmap for key domains – define scope, use cases, and success metrics; align with internal canonical models and relevant W3C / domain standards.
• Model and govern the ontology using (OWL, RDFS, SKOS, SHACL); capture provenance and maintain SPARQL queries with validation.
• Define and enforce standards—modeling guidelines, naming / versioning, change control, releases / deprecations—and partner with enterprise governance / tooling teams to embed reusable patterns for product teams and consumers.
• Implement data quality checks (coverage, conformance, unit / ID normalization) and contribute to validation reports.

Job Qualifications

The anticipated base pay range for this position is : 146.200 USD - 197.800 USD

Johnson & Johnson offers a range of employee benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees are also eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

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