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The Position
Who We Are
At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and
access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche isstrongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive t o build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.
Role Purpose
The Lead Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping the overall architecture of the healthcare data platform, applying extensive knowledge of design principles and practices to create a scalable, secure, and efficient enterprise-scale system. This role will lead the conceptualization, design, and implementation of the platform's architecture, ensuring it aligns with business
requirements and industry best practices. Responsibilities include leading design reviews, driving technical decisions, and mentoring engineers on architectural considerations. The Lead Architect will also be responsible for working with stakeholders to determine current and future needs to drive the technology roadmap of the platform and guiding its evolution to support emerging technologies and healthcare data management trends.Your values align with ours:Customer Empathy, Respect/Earn Trust, Extreme Ownership, Bias for action, Entrepreneurship,Open sharing of information, Data-driven, Effectiveness, Resiliency, Grit, Radical Candor, Curiosity, Optimism, Disagree yet commit, Collaboration
You will be responsible:
- Architecture Design and Development:
○ Develop high-level and low-level design components, ensuring scalability,
supportability, and extensibility of software products.○ Drive software architecture that can be adaptable to support healthcare software products in the cloud across several clinical domains.○ Define the technology roadmap, focusing on data aspects such as data ingestion pipelines (batch, streaming), data storage solutions (SQL, NoSQL, Data Lakes),data transformation and processing frameworks, data quality and governance tools, data cataloging and metadata management, and data visualization and reporting tools.
○ Lead other architects and senior engineers to design, plan, deliver, and operate thedata platform.
○ Provide leadership in project execution by defining incremental designimprovements that can continuously evolve the platform, mitigate project risks, andcontinuously deliver additional stakeholder value.○ Scope and define proof-of-concepts, including identifying technology options and assessments.○ Provide technical leadership to the product teams to help their products withthe data platform.
○ Collaborate with various groups like Product Management, UX, Customer Success,
Sales, Compliance, Legal, and more to understand and meet customer needs.○ Communicate with stakeholders including customers to explain solutions andtechnology, obtain customer insights, and translate them into technical deliverables.
○ Ensure high quality software that is highly scalable, available, reliable, supportable, and extensible and integrates with other Roche products and platforms.
Your profile
- Educational Background: BS in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline. Master’s degree preferred
- Experience:Proven expertise in leading and mentoring principal software engineers and other junior software engineers
○ 15+ years of hands-on coding experience (or equivalent).
○ Proven expertise in leading and mentoring principal software engineers and other junior software engineers.○ Deep understanding of data warehousing, ETL processes, and data lakeconcepts○ Experience in real-time data streaming and processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Spark)○ Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security best practices○ Experience in Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and generative AI.○ Proficiency in Cloud distribution/computing (AWS), API Design, Data Modeling,Capacity Planning, and Engineering best practices such as TDD, CI/CD.○ Extensive experience in architecting and developing large-scale designs.○ Solid experience in Agile methodologies for both delivery and operations.○ Skilled in SQS, No-SQL technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB,MongoDB.○ Experience in Client-Service architecture, design patterns, and buildingcloud/enterprise-grade solutions.Nice to Have:
- Master in CS, Engineering (preferred)
- Experience in Healthcare tech, standards, and workflows (e.g. HL7, FHIR)
- Experience with QMS for FDA-regulated products
Location
You will be based in Sant Cugat/ Barcelona. At the Companys discretion, an exception to the location requirementcould be made under extraordinary circumstances.As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to be a great place to work and to innovate for patients.Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
Leadership Skills:
You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective technical leadership for a global
team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities.You will seek to inspire and lead the project teams to create transformative solutions, and toinfluence uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at theforefront of Data Platform & Insights Services and deliver its optimal contribution to the RocheDiagnostics Vision.The Lead Architect is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to theRoche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are:
- Put patients first
- Follow the science
- Act as one team
- Embrace differences
- Accelerate learning
- Simplify radically
- Make impact now
- Think long term
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
