Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform Engineering.

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Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management Job Sub Function: Technical Product Management Job Category: People Leader All Job Posting Locations: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Job Description: 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. Position Overview Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Platform Engineering to lead the design, build, automation, security, and operation of cloud-based engineering platforms that enable fast, reliable, and compliant digital product delivery across enterprise technology environments. This role will provide organizational, people, and technical leadership for platform capabilities, infrastructure as code, cloud infrastructure operations, container platforms, developer self-service, observability, release enablement, and production reliability. The successful candidate will lead and develop engineering talent while partnering with software engineering, cybersecurity, quality, architecture, operations, vendors, and external technology partners to improve developer experience, platform resilience, operational controls, and delivery speed. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in platform engineering, cloud platforms, automation, Kubernetes, infrastructure provisioning, developer tooling, monitoring, incident response, secure engineering practices, and production support within regulated enterprise environments, together with demonstrated people leadership, stakeholder influence, external engagement, and the ability to create clarity and momentum in ambiguous situations. Key Responsibilities People Leadership & Organization Development Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of platform engineers, setting clear objectives, providing timely feedback, and building sustainable succession and capability plans. Own workforce planning, talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, engagement, retention, and career development for the platform engineering organization. Create an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing culture that encourages technical excellence, experimentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. Balance delivery priorities, team capacity, technical debt, and operational commitments while empowering leaders and engineers to make effective decisions. Platform Automation & Developer Enablement Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support secure, repeatable, and automated application delivery across development, test, validation, and production environments. Automate build, test, deployment, configuration, release, rollback, and environment provisioning processes to reduce manual effort and delivery risk. Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into sprint delivery, release planning, branching strategies, and deployment workflows. Continuously improve pipeline reliability, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery practices. Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Provision, configure, and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code, reusable templates, and automated governance controls. Support containerized workloads, Kubernetes platforms, service configuration, secrets management, networking, storage, and runtime reliability. Implement scalable cloud patterns for application hosting, integration, data services, identity, backup, disaster recovery, and environment lifecycle management. Collaborate with architecture and platform teams to standardize cloud operating models, guardrails, reusable modules, and engineering accelerators. Reliability, Observability & Production Operations Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and service health indicators to improve visibility across applications and infrastructure. Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, release validation, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews. Improve availability, performance, scalability, resiliency, backup, recovery, and service continuity across production platforms. Define and track operational KPIs such as deployment success rate, incident trends, mean time to recovery, environment stability, and system performance. Secure Platform Engineering & Operational Excellence Embed security scanning, dependency checks, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, policy enforcement, and compliance evidence into automated delivery workflows. Partner with cybersecurity, privacy, quality, and architecture teams to implement secure software development lifecycle and cloud security practices. Maintain audit-ready deployment records, configuration baselines, access controls, change evidence, release approvals, and validation artifacts where required. Drive continuous improvement across automation quality, platform reliability, operational risk, technical debt, and cloud cost optimization. Collaboration, Developer Experience & Continuous Improvement Work closely with software engineers, QA engineers, product teams, cybersecurity, platform teams, and operations teams to improve end-to-end software delivery. Create reusable templates, documentation, playbooks, runbooks, and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational consistency. Troubleshoot complex build, deployment, infrastructure, environment, access, networking, and performance issues across cloud and enterprise systems. Mentor junior engineers and promote principled engineering practices across platform automation, scripting, release management, observability, and production support. External Engagement & Strategic Partnerships Represent the platform engineering organization with strategic vendors, cloud providers, technology partners, industry forums, and relevant professional communities. Establish productive external relationships to evaluate emerging capabilities, benchmark engineering practices, influence roadmaps, and accelerate responsible adoption of new technologies. Lead vendor governance, service reviews, commercial and delivery discussions, risk escalation, and performance improvement in partnership with procurement and internal stakeholders. Communicate platform strategy, operating model, investment needs, outcomes, and risks to senior leaders and global partners with clarity and credibility. Leading Through Ambiguity Translate broad business outcomes and incomplete information into a coherent platform strategy, prioritized roadmap, measurable decisions, and executable plans. Make timely, risk-informed decisions amid uncertainty, changing priorities, complex dependencies, and competing stakeholder expectations. Create clarity for teams by defining decision principles, ownership, guardrails, success measures, and escalation paths while allowing plans to evolve as evidence emerges. Navigate organizational complexity, constructively challenge assumptions, and align diverse stakeholders around pragmatic solutions and enterprise outcomes. Compliance, Security & Quality Ensure infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, and operational processes comply with applicable enterprise security, privacy, quality, accessibility, and regulatory requirements. Support GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), GDPR, HIPAA, change management, and internal J&J technology standards where applicable. Maintain traceability for releases, configuration changes, infrastructure updates, deployment approvals, incident records, and operational controls. Promote secure, reliable, and responsible engineering practices across cloud, application, data, and AI-enabled technology platforms. Required Qualifications Education Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field. Master's Degree preferred. Experience 15+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, release engineering, infrastructure automation, or software delivery enablement, including 5+ years in people leadership or engineering management roles. Demonstrated success building, coaching, and retaining high-performing engineering teams and managing performance, capability development, succession, and workforce planning. Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated deployments, and environment provisioning across enterprise applications. Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including compute, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, security, and managed services. Experience with containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, scripting, observability platforms, incident management, and production support. Experience with secure platform engineering practices, automated security scans, vulnerability remediation, access control, audit evidence, and regulated delivery practices. Experience managing strategic vendors or external technology partners and influencing senior, global, and cross-functional stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority. Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, frame complex problems, make risk-informed decisions, and establish direction in evolving enterprise environments. Experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, or other regulated industries preferred. Technical Skills Platform Delivery & Release Engineering Cloud & Infrastructure as Code Containers, Kubernetes & Platforms Observability & Secure Engineering Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions / Jenkins Service catalog, software templates, golden paths Build and release pipelines Release, rollback, and change automation Azure / AWS / GCP cloud platforms Terraform / OpenTofu / Pulumi / Crossplane Bicep / ARM / CloudFormation Cloud networking, identity, storage, compute Configuration, backup, recovery, environment lifecycle Docker and container runtime concepts Kubernetes / AKS / EKS / GKE Helm / Kustomize / GitOps Argo CD / Flux continuous delivery API gateways, service mesh, platform operations Prometheus / Grafana / ELK / Splunk OpenTelemetry monitoring, logging, tracing Vault / cloud secrets management OPA / Kyverno / policy-as-code Incident, problem, and change management Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting Clinical Development, R&D, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, enterprise data platforms, or internal productivity applications in a regulated environment. Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, container registries, artifact repositories, and observability tooling. Experience implementing secure platform controls, policy-as-code, vulnerability management, secrets management, cloud security posture, and compliance automation. Relevant certifications in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, platform engineering, cybersecurity, site reliability engineering, or cloud architecture. Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical risks, operational trade-offs, deployment options, and reliability improvements to diverse stakeholders. What Impact Will You Have? As Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, you will shape the platform strategy, build and lead a high-performing engineering organization, and strengthen Johnson & Johnson's ability to deliver digital products securely, reliably, and at scale. You will improve developer productivity, reduce platform complexity, increase operational resilience, build trusted internal and external partnerships, and create clarity through ambiguity to enable compliant cloud-based delivery across critical enterprise platforms. Team Size People manager accountable for a team of platform engineers and technical leads; oversees a blended workforce of employees, contractors, vendors, and strategic partners, with team size aligned to business scope. Organization Platform Engineering / Cloud Platforms / Clinical IT / ICC Hyderabad Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Required Skills: Preferred Skills: Analytical Reasoning, Consulting, Cost Management, Creating Purpose, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Team Management