Application Development Project Manager LATAM

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Functional Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Job Description:

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Job Description:

The Johnson & Johnson LATAM Technology Services (TS) team is seeking a passionate leader with an interest in working within the life science industry for the Manager of Application Development. This role will be based in Sao Paulo or São Jose dos Campos, Brazil.

At Johnson & Johnson, the largest healthcare company in the world, we come together with one purpose: to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

Diversity & Inclusion are essential to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion or any other trait, YOU are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world.

Purpose:

This is a highly technical, collaborative role responsible for leading project implementations and providing technical support.

The manager will lead a team that delivers support, enhancements, and projects for Johnson & Johnson TS initiatives with a product‑technology focus on Microsoft Power Platform, governance, visualization, and artificial intelligence. Responsibilities include managing projects, incidents, break/fix work, service requests, and problem management. This role drives continuous improvement in application delivery and maintains ongoing relationships with Technical and Business Product Owners and Chapter Leads across North and Latin America.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver support, enhancements and projects across North and Latin America, ensuring that the project under his/her leadership is delivered on time, on budget and meets compliance requirements.
• Analyze business needs, develop/propose solutions and estimate/quote projects.
• Provide regular and detailed appropriate reports back to stakeholders and at all levels of management and staff about the status of the delivery.
• Responsible for overall Engineering, roadmap, and technical decisions for the product in coordination with the Product Owner, Product Group Engineer and Architect Lead.
• Partner with IT Technology Services peers in other regions so that best practices and standardization are applied to LATAM platforms, lead and facilitate effective meetings across a global space.
• Ensure timely adoption of new technologies and innovation, select and resource ideas to explore via ideation sessions where necessary.
• Work closely with the Technical Product Manager to define Product strategy/vision
• Work with squads to problem-solve technical challenges and implement solutions, using the squad technology strategy as a guide; is "hands-on-keys" coding while also supporting system/design/code reviews for squad – inclusive of assembling, writing and approving enablers
• Negotiate technology options with business partners and collaborate with platform/product teams to identify opportunities to leverage platforms
• Manage development and review cadence, align tech landscape across squads to promote reusability, scalability and modularity
• Monitor product / platform developments and drive leading engineering practices for higher tech quality
• Help Product Owners/Lead Engineers prioritize technical backlogs (across squads) and coach / mentor product and squad members
• Works with squads and other Product/Chapter Lead Engineers to manage risks and solve, escalate, and track cross product dependencies and impediments

Required:

• B.A. / B.S. degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or another related field
• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrable experience in lifecycle management project implementation as manager
• Experience working on global teams

• Significant experience in project management and related operations, able to take initiative and drive projects to successful completion

• Ability to effectively collect and communicate complex information to customers.

• Proactive and self-motivated approach to work, with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Extensive experience in Agile Framework Development is required, including team creation, leadership, product / platform standards, governance processes, and change management.

• Previous people management experience (direct or indirect leadership)
• Ability to lead team members across squads, from different technical functions, with varying skills, expertise, tenure including
• Commitment with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion by ensuring we are attracting, developing and retaining talent that reflect the communities our teams serve
• Strong customer focus, ensure we have the right products to proactively resolve customer issues
• Execution-oriented to fulfill short-term needs and strategic thinker to anticipate future needs
• Fluent knowledge of English

Preferred:

Business Behavior, Consulting, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Alignment, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Developing Others, Information Technology Strategies, Process Improvements, Product Portfolio Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Risk Assessments, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility, Training People

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Capacity Leveling, Contingency Planning, Controls Compliance, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM), Leadership, Management Systems Implementation, Motivating People, Performance Measurement, Software Development Management, Tactical Planning, Team Management, Technical Development, Technologically Savvy, Workflow Analysis

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