Sr Scientist, Lab Informatics (temp role)

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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Pharmaceutical Product R&D

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

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

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Join us as a lab informatician and help build the next generation of digital and agentic capabilities for Synthetic Molecule Analytical Development.

You will contribute as an agentic AD developer within one focused analytical program. Your impact will come from building useful, working capabilities close to the scientific work, in collaboration with analytical domain experts, a domain leader, key users, and digital partners.

We are looking for someone who can sit close to the science and close to the code.

The ideal candidate does not need to be the most senior developer in the room. The stronger fit is someone with enough technical skill to build, enough scientific curiosity to understand the problem, and enough pragmatism to deliver something useful with real users.

This person should like working in small, focused teams where the developer, domain leader and key user stay close together. In this model, the developer builds fast, the domain leader owns the scientific intent and acceptance criteria, and the key user tests whether the solution works in real analytical practice.

The ambition is to move towards reusable analytical co-scientist capabilities that support product understanding, method development, evidence generation, and CMC decision-making. We will get there by building small, meaningful capabilities, learning from real use, and improving the roadmap through evidence rather than assumptions.

This role sits in the Technology and Transformation Alliances team and will contribute directly to the future of Analytical Development by combining lab informatics, data, coding, and scientific domain understanding.

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain focused digital solutions, prototypes, and agentic workflows using Python and relevant application frameworks.
• Translate analytical use cases into practical data workflows, user interfaces, scripts, and reusable components.
• Work closely with an experienced domain leader and hands-on key users to understand scientific intent, acceptance criteria, and real workflow needs.
• Collaborate with digital/data partners to align with existing platforms, enterprise tools, coding practices, and reusable architecture.
• Build small increments that can be tested quickly, improved through feedback, and scaled only when they demonstrate value.
• Help connect available analytical data sources where appropriate, while clearly identifying missing data, quality gaps, and workflow constraints.
• Support development of capabilities such as data retrieval, evidence structuring, quality checks, comparison logic, reporting drafts, recommendation support, or workflow automation.
• Document your work clearly so that capabilities can be understood, maintained, and reused by others.
• Support troubleshooting, refinement, and basic lifecycle maintenance of the solutions you build.
• Contribute to a learning-oriented, agile way of working where the first goal is useful capability development, not perfect architecture.

 

Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as bioengineering, chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, computer science, data science, engineering, statistics, or a related discipline.
• A PhD is not required.

Required:

• Early-career professional with relevant experience or strong demonstrated capability in lab informatics, scientific computing, data science, automation, or software development.
• Practical programming experience in Python.
• Interest in analytical development, lab workflows, scientific data, and pharmaceutical R&D.
• Ability to translate a scientific or workflow problem into a practical digital solution.
• Willingness to work iteratively, test with users, and improve based on feedback.
• Basic understanding of data handling, APIs, databases, notebooks, dashboards, or web applications.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work with scientists, IT/digital partners, and domain experts.
• Clear communication style, including the ability to document assumptions, limitations, and next steps.
• Curiosity, ownership, and willingness to learn both the technical and analytical domain.

Preferred:

• Experience or affinity with analytical development labs, chromatography, LC/MS, dissolution, stability, PAT, laboratory automation, ELN, LIMS, CDS, or related workflows.
• Experience with Python frameworks such as Flask, FastAPI, Django, Dash, Streamlit, or similar.
• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or other front-end tools.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, LLM-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, or scientific decision-support tools.
• Experience working in a regulated or quality-sensitive environment.
• Familiarity with cloud, containers, Git, CI/CD, or enterprise software development practices.
• Ability to work with imperfect data and still deliver useful, transparent, scientifically grounded outputs.

 

 

Working conditions

You will work on one analytical co-scientist or agentic capability lane, selected based on your strengths, scientific affinity, and the needs of the program. This could include areas such as LC and impurity evidence, stability evidence, dissolution, PAT, analytical chemistry, or control strategy & product integration. Your main responsibility is to help design, build, test, and improve practical digital capabilities that support analytical scientists in their day-to-day work. You will work iteratively, with close feedback from hands-on users, so that development stays connected to real scientific problems and avoids unnecessary translation.

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Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Coaching, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Drug Discovery Development, Goal Attainment, Market Research, Organizing, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Trends, Product Development, Product Strategies, Report Writing, Research Documents, Research Proposals, Scientific Research, Standard Scientific Processes and Procedures, Technologically Savvy

  

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€72,500.00 - €115,230.00

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.