The Position

Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

The Solution Architect focuses on designing business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready solutions within a specific solution context. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, translating complex technical concepts into successful solutions addressing problems across R&D laboratories. Your responsibilities will span the entire solution lifecycle, from design to implementation, ensuring solutions meet high-performance standards and security requirements. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of enterprise IT landscapes, driving digital transformation and operational efficiency for organizations across various industries.

The Opportunity

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Designs solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards within a specific Solution Context. Manages Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and fitness functions. Documents and evolves the architecture throughout the product life cycle and aligns with the architecture community for governance.

• Solution Design: Architect scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions tailored to business needs.

• Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves complex problems by taking a new perspective on existing solutions and exercising judgment based on the analysis of multiple information sources. Maintains the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for the solution. Assesses and consults on the impacts and dependencies of initiatives on capabilities, risk, and the application landscape. Creates Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for the solution and its interfaces. Defines and drives reference architectures, patterns, and ensures Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are appropriately recorded.

• Stakeholder Management: Explains difficult or sensitive information clearly and actively works to build consensus among stakeholders. Drives information sharing and exchange about the solution.

• Impact/Strategy: Understand technical opportunities to improve business value. Provides technical oversight, guidance, and consultation on specific technologies for product teams. Improves existing solutions, manages technical debt, and researches, evaluates, pilots, and drives the adoption of new technologies. Identifies opportunities to enhance value.

Who you are

Education / Experience

• Demonstrated experience designing business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a specific solution context.

• Experience maintaining the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions, and assessing the impacts of initiatives on risk and application landscapes.

• Hands on experience in creating PoCs

• Previous experience collaborating with R&D users preferred

Technical Skills

• Modern architecture practices, including effective use of non functional requirements and architecture decision records

• Proficiency in creating Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for solutions and interfaces.

• Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions.

• Strong capability to drive external technology trends and assess feasibility for the solution, including conducting vendor assessments.

Additional Qualifications

• Solid collaboration and influencing skills with a proven ability to lead and inspire

• Strong analytical, logical problem-resolution skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and successfully build consensus.

• Proactive mindset to identify opportunities to enhance value and business processes, improve existing solutions, and manage technical debt.

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