Principal Engineer, HighByte

Fujifilm
Springfield, IL

Position Overview

Join us to shape the future! As the Principal Engineer, HighByte, you will serve as the system owner for the HighByte Intelligence Hub across our global network-defining standards, leading architecture, and enabling compliant, high-performance manufacturing data solutions that power analytics and decision making.

You will translate executive vision into actionable architectures, build and govern our Unified Namespace (UNS), and drive contextualization aligned to ISA-95/ISA-88-integrating data across OT/IT, MES, LIMS, QMS, CMMS, ERP, and cloud platforms. If you're passionate about architecting enterprise-grade industrial data capabilities in regulated environments, this is your stage.

Company Overview

The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies has never been more important-and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people's lives.

Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help make the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive - what we call Genki.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of "giving our world more smiles." Visit:

Job Description

What you'll do

  • Lead strategy and roadmaps: Advise on Industry 4.0 and manufacturing data strategies; develop multi-year roadmaps for UNS, event-driven architectures, OT/IT convergence, and cloud/hybrid patterns.

  • Define enterprise standards: Establish ISA-95/ISA-88-aligned contextualization models, topic hierarchies, naming conventions, and canonical payload standards to ensure interoperability and reusability.

  • Own the HighByte platform: Govern standards, configurations, lifecycle, change control, documentation, versioning, scalability, and platform health.

  • Orchestrate data integration: Design and guide Industrial DataOps pipelines across PLC/SCADA/DCS, historians, MES/LIMS/QMS/CMMS/ERP, cloud data platforms, and APIs.

  • Embed compliance by design: Apply GAMP5/CSA, CSV deliverables (URS, risk, testing, traceability), and ALCOA+ data integrity; support audits/inspections and CAPAs.

  • Monitor performance: Define and track KPIs (latency, throughput, reliability, schema adherence); implement observability and alerting for UNS and pipelines.

  • Manage risk: Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and deviations; lead trade-off analyses and mitigation plans.

  • Translate and deliver: Convert business needs into designs; produce architecture artifacts; coordinate with internal teams and vendors; enable change readiness and knowledge transfer.

  • Enable people and partners: Liaise with Manufacturing, QA/ITQ, Automation/OT, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, and external SIs; build playbooks and training.

  • Innovate and improve: Evaluate edge, streaming, and schema registry patterns; pilot and scale improvements that enhance reliability, compliance, and analytics outcomes.

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Typically 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's; or 8+ years with a Master's; or PhD with 5+ years; or equivalent experience.

  • Within the above, 6+ years in Industry 4.0/manufacturing data, including OT environments, historians, IT/OT integration, and cloud/hybrid infrastructure.

  • Strong hands-on experience with HighByte Intelligence Hub, UNS architectures, and ISA-95/ISA-88-aligned data models in regulated life-sciences or comparable industries.

  • Experience with platform monitoring and lifecycle management.

Preferred requirements

  • Experience with DataOps and streaming frameworks (MQTT/Kafka/AMQP), schema registries, and integration tooling.

  • Familiarity with FAIR data principles; data quality, lineage, and observability tooling.

  • Validation expertise (GAMP5/CSA, CSV deliverables); audit/inspection support experience.

  • Cloud data platforms and analytics integration (e.g., Azure/AWS/GCP services).

  • Relevant certifications in data/architecture/OT (e.g., ISA/IEC), and project or Agile methods (PMP/PRINCE2/Scrum).

What you'll influence

  • Enterprise architecture and standards across sites and functions

  • Compliance posture, data reliability, and analytics enablement in regulated environments

  • Technology selection, investment recommendations, and vendor/system integrator alignment

The US salary range for this position is $146,000 to $210,000. Pay within this range varies by work location?and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,?and experience.

Our programs are designed to focus on maintaining and enhancing all pillars of health with a robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage with the option of a Health Savings Account with company contributions. In addition, we offer an industry leading 401(k)savings plan, insurance coverage, employee assistance programs and various wellness incentives. We support life-work balance with paid vacation time, sick time, and company holidays. Explore a supportive environment that enriches both your personal and professional growth!

This is a global position that will support all FUJIFILM Biotechnologies sites. This position can be based at any of our locations around the globe. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site.?

As part of any recruitment process, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organisation is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process with hiring managers in Europe and the United States.?

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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EEO Information

Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

ADA Information

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department ([email protected]).

Job Locations US-Remote

Posted Date 15 hours ago (3/17/2026 11:10 AM)

Requisition ID 2026-37124

Category Information Technology

Company (Portal Searching) FUJIFILM Biotechnologies

Posted 2026-04-09

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