Senior Data Product Manager - Lakehouse Strategy

We are searching for the best talent for Senior Data Product Manager - Lakehouse Strategy, located in New Brunswick, NJ.

Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.

Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 130 years. We embrace research and science—bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. 

With a global footprint spanning more than 250 operating companies and a workforce of over 125,000 employees, Johnson & Johnson is uniquely positioned to lead the future of health—and the future of work. If you have the talent and ambition to shape how organizations understand, enable, and support their people at scale, Johnson & Johnson offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact. 

Thriving on a diverse company culture, we celebrate the uniqueness of our employees and are committed to inclusion. Johnson & Johnson is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 

HR Data & Intelligence sits at the heart of Johnson & Johnson’s HR Digital ecosystem, architecting the intelligence layer that shapes how the company understands, engages, and mobilizes its global workforce. This organization builds and operationalizes enterprise-scale data, analytics, and AI capabilities that do more than inform decisions—they reshape how HR plans, predicts, personalizes, and performs. By unifying data science, employee listening, knowledge management, and responsible AI, HR Data & Intelligence is transforming workforce signals into strategic advantage, ensuring HR is not only insight-led and future-ready, but a trusted steward of ethical, human-centered intelligence at scale.  Within this ecosystem, Data Services is the business-owned data platform capability that ensures HR data is trusted, scalable, and analytics-ready. 

The Senior Data Product Manager, Lakehouse Strategy & Enablement is a senior business product leader within HR Data & Intelligence, accountable for the strategy, execution, and enterprise enablement of Johnson & Johnson’s HR lakehouse platform. Reporting to the Head of Data Services, this role owns the business outcomes of the physical data platform that underpins analytics, data products, and AI across HR. 

This role ensures that HR’s Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum layers) operates as a scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective enterprise platform. Acting as a business product owner for the lakehouse, this leader translates platform strategy into durable capabilities, enforces standards, and ensures the platform is continuously ready to support current and future data products and intelligence use cases. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Own the business strategy and execution of the HR lakehouse platform, ensuring the Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum) is scalable, performant, and analytics‑ready 

• Ensure the lakehouse is continuously enabled to support downstream processes, analytics, data products, AI, and HR digital experiences 

• Act as the business owner of platform outcomes, including availability, reliability, performance, and scalability 

• Lead business ownership of ingestion, transformation, and serving patterns across the Medallion layers 

• Enforce enterprise standards for lakehouse usage, data pipelines, transformations, platform services, and architectural patterns 

• Partner with the Technical Platform Manager to align engineering delivery with business priorities and platform outcomes 

• Ensure Platinum‑layer physical readiness to support semantic models, analytics consumption, and advanced use cases 

• Enforce enterprise data quality thresholds and publishing gates in partnership with the centralized Data Quality team 

• Ensure only compliant, trusted data assets progress through Medallion layers and are made available for consumption 

• Own platform‑level operational outcomes, including stability, performance, cost management, and capacity planning in partnership with Technical Platform Manager 

• Identify and drive remediation of systemic platform risks and bottlenecks 

• Serve as an escalation point for platform‑level decisions and tradeoffs affecting multiple data products or domains 

Qualifications 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field 

• 7+ years of experience owning or leading enterprise data platforms or large‑scale data capabilities, with accountability for business outcomes 

• Demonstrated experience operating modern lakehouse or layered data architectures (e.g., Medallion patterns) in an enterprise environment 

• Proven experience acting as a business product owner for platform capabilities, translating strategy into durable, scalable execution 

• Strong technical fluency across data ingestion, transformation, and serving patterns, with the ability to partner effectively with engineering and platform teams 

• Experience owning platform‑level outcomes, including availability, performance, scalability, and cost management 

• Demonstrated ability to enforce enterprise standards across multiple teams, domains, and data products 

• Proven ability to influence decisions and outcomes across matrixed teams 

• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate complex platform topics into clear business decisions, tradeoffs, and priorities 

Preferred: 

• Experience enabling processes, analytics, data products, or AI capabilities through scalable platform enablement 

• Experience operating in HR, people analytics, or workforce technology environments 

• Experience partnering with data governance, data quality, privacy, security, and compliance teams in regulated or global organizations 

• Familiarity with product‑based or agile operating models in complex enterprise environments 

• Experience supporting AI‑ready or advanced analytics use cases through platform design and enablement 

Other: 

This position is located in New Brunswick, NJ full-time and may require up to 10% travel, both domestic and international. 

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, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.