Business Digital & Data Solution Architect - Principal

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The Position

At Roche, we thrive to deliver more benefits to our patients as part of our 10-year Pharma vision.

An integral part of achieving this vision is to deliver new and innovative data analytics solutions to our scientists across Pharma Technical Operations (PT). PTE is the organization that catalyzes the global development and execution of PT’s Digital and Operational Excellence strategy to enable PT to realize our performance promises.  We strive to activate data citizenship and digital mind, revolutionize our FAIR data ecosystem and systems landscape, re-design excellent processes, and generate transformative insights.

As a Business Digital & Data Solution Architect - Principal at Roche PT, you will play a pivotal role in standardizing and optimizing the digital & data infrastructure that powers our pharmaceutical operations and data insights. In this role you will own the design, implementation, and maintenance of sophisticated digital & data architectures within our organization, translating business needs into scalable, secure, and efficient digital solutions. This role will leverage sophisticated digital & data technologies, and identify new industry trends within PT in close collaboration with our informatics organization.

The Opportunity:

• Guided by Roche Enterprise Architecture framework, select appropriate data management technologies, tools, and cloud platforms based on business requirements, performance and solution sustainability needs. Collaborate with IT and the available architecture teams aligning principles and strategies with PT requirements

• Develop and promote the adoption of the overarching data modeling methodology. Drive the modeling of entities and relationships ensuring accurate representation and integration within the data ecosystem of the domain

• Design, develop, and maintain data streaming architecture and processes to enable real-time data processing and analytics

• Improve existing systems, identify gaps, and work with the team and stakeholders to scope and prioritize solutions.  Ensure continuous data infrastructure performance monitoring to identify bottlenecks and implement optimization strategies

• Work with use case teams to map business requirements to technological solutions (leveraging existing Roche solutions and recommending new solutions when necessary)

• Collaborate with engineers and other development teams to craft and build cutting edge data ingestion, enrichment, and accessibility capabilities

• Build and maintain the Solution Architecture Documents required for the Qualification of Data Products

Who you are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.  5+ in a leading role as data solution architect

• Experience working with a large scale enterprise data warehouse / lake comprising data pipelines and ETL processes leveraging Snowflake and enterprise cloud solutions

• Experience developing conceptual, logical and physical data solution architecture. Proven experience in optimization and fine-tuning of data pipelines for performance and scalability

• Working experience in Python development, SQL, DevOps Tools, CI/CD, Data Ingestion & Systems Integration 

• Broad knowledge in Manufacturing (Clinical or Commercial experience) , or experience with Supply Chain or Regulatory

This role calls for a collaborative, open-minded individual who values learning from colleagues, thoughtfully challenges ideas, and prioritizes impactful work. We seek someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, has a passion for continuous learning, and can be relied upon to work in the best interest of the team.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.