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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine seeks a Senior Data Automation Engineer for its Leiden, Netherlands facility.
The Global Engineering & Technology (GET) team delivers Engineering, Maintenance, and Automation activities. At J&J Innovative Medicine Biologics in Leiden, we produce medicines using living cells and advanced technology, with a focus on cancer and immunological disorders. Our Automation department implements, validates, qualifies, and maintains manufacturing automated systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory and company standards.
Position Summary:
As a Senior Data Automation Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and sustain manufacturing data automation solutions, contributing to our digital strategy. You’ll set technical direction for data integration standards, collaborate with Automation, IT, and business teams, and deliver high-quality datasets for operations and analytics.
You’ll manage the site historian and contextualization layer (OSI PI / PI AF), improve the Leiden Information Model, and define data management standards and roadmaps. You should be a strong communicator, skilled in collaboration and change management, with a keen interest in new technologies and digitalization challenges.
About Your Tasks and Responsibilities
Responsibilities & Impact:
- Partner with Automation, Operations, IT, and digital groups to align on data automation designs.
- Build and manage automated data pipelines from manufacturing systems to the site data platform.
- Define data contextualization and standardization aligned with ISA-95 and site/global standards.
- Evolve the OT contextualization model and adoption patterns.
- Ensure data quality and reliability; lead troubleshooting and corrective actions.
- Support GxP-compliant delivery, documentation, risk assessments, and audits.
About Your Skills and Experience
Who you are:
You hold a technical Master’s degree or equivalent experience. You’re passionate about new technologies, and can work independently across the solution lifecycle, influencing stakeholders in a regulated environment.
- Experience in biotechnological/pharma GxP environments; knowledge of GAMP required.
- Experience delivering technical solutions in manufacturing.
- Strategic thinking, change management, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Understanding of the data lifecycle and translating use cases into scalable datasets.
- Familiarity with data management, process excellence tools (Lean, Six Sigma), and manufacturing process analytics.
- Experience with OSI PI / AVEVA PI, PI AF, and historian data governance.
- Programming skills.
- Experience working in global, remote teams and digital projects
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Hybrid Work
You are eligible to work in EU
We only accept applicants who are eligible to work in the EU
Contact person
Frank Helmus
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. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com