Product Engineer

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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/.

Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function: Technical Product Management

Job Category: Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations: Sao Jose, Brazil

Job Description

We're looking for a Product Engineer - TA non-WD based in São José dos Campos.

Job Summary

The Talent Acquisition IT Product Lead Engineer serves as the technical leader and engineering authority for Talent Acquisition products and platforms. This role defines technical direction, translates business requirements into scalable technology solutions, guides engineering decisions, and helps ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, and maintainable capabilities supporting the end-to-end talent acquisition ecosystem. Working closely with Product Owners, HR stakeholders, Solution Architects, engineers, enterprise platform teams, and technology suppliers, the Lead Engineer drives engineering excellence across recruiting platforms, candidate experience technologies, AI-enabled hiring capabilities, workflow automation, analytics, and system integrations. The Lead Engineer operates as a first-among-equals technical leader, providing direction, architectural guidance, and engineering oversight through expertise and influence. The role remains actively engaged in solution design, delivery, continuous improvement, and operational health, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security requirements, engineering standards, and long-term platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for assigned Talent Acquisition products and platforms.
• Define and communicate the technical vision, solution strategy, and architectural direction for assigned products.
• Translate business requirements, user stories, and recruiting process needs into scalable, secure, and sustainable technical solutions.
• Guide engineers and internal / external delivery teams through complex technical challenges, architectural decisions, and solution implementation approaches.
• Conduct technical design reviews, code reviews, solution assessments, and engineering reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, scalability, and security.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns across Talent Acquisition solutions.
• Partner with Product Owners, vendors and Architects to balance business priorities, technical feasibility, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Drive the management and reduction of technical debt while continuously improving engineering quality and platform health.
• Partner with Product Owners, Product Analysts, vendors and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical requirements and solution designs.
• Drive the technical delivery of capabilities supporting recruiting, candidate relationship management, interview experiences, hiring workflows, onboarding, analytics, and AI-enabled recruiting solutions.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, data governance policies, privacy requirements, and compliance expectations.
• Design scalable and reusable solutions that support global Talent Acquisition processes.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and recommend technical approaches, platforms, integrations, and emerging technologies.
• Support modernization initiatives that improve platform flexibility, maintainability, performance, and user experience.
• Provide technical leadership and engineering oversight across Agile product teams supporting Talent Acquisition and My Joining experiences.
• Support backlog refinement and provide technical input into prioritization, sequencing, estimates, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure solutions are delivered with appropriate testing, automation, documentation, quality controls, release readiness, and operational support models.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and impediments affecting delivery.
• Collaborate across squads vendor and platform teams to manage cross-team dependencies and drive successful outcomes.
• Promote engineering practices that improve delivery quality, reliability, security, and speed.
• Design and provide technical oversight for integrations between Talent Acquisition platforms and enterprise