Partner – Data Management, Architecture

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Data Architecture and Technology (Advanced Skills):

• Build and maintain a unified view of the affiliate's data architecture – leveraging strong data engineering expertise to map data tables, understand underlying schemas, and oversee data flow across systems, from source to warehouse, ensuring clarity, reliability, and alignment with business needs while maintaining and upgrading ETL processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams – partner with data governance, data engineering, analytics teams to ensure data pipelines, definitions, and reports align with data definitions to maintain consistency.
• Comply with data governance practices, flag gaps or redundancies in sources or processes or models , and ensure the right stakeholders have timely, accurate information to data gaps or weaknesses.
• Stay informed on emerging trends in AI, including Agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) evolution, and identify opportunities to apply them on underlying data models to solve business challenges.
• Evaluate and champion tools, technologies, and cloud principles (storage, compute, cost optimization) that advance the affiliate's data and AI maturity.
• Identify learnings from global digital journeys and share India's data-driven achievements across the organization.

Strategic Platform & Product Management (Foundational Skills):

• Can conceptualize and execute a roadmap for digital, data, and AI platforms to align with commercial decision-making needs.
• Can connect and partner with business stakeholders and end-users to identify critical problems which can be solved using data, and gather feedback to build a pipeline of high-impact data and AI use cases.
• Can translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements for data engineers , solution architects and IT vendors.
• Oversee the entire lifecycle of AI data products, from initial concept and requirements gathering to rollout, adoption, and impact measurement.

Functional Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Strong ability to connect data capabilities directly to business outcomes and strategic priorities.
• Bridging & Translation: Proven expertise in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions, translating requirements effectively for different audiences.
• Technical Acumen: Strong working knowledge of data engineering concepts (ETL, data warehousing), cloud ecosystems, and AI/LLM applications in a business context.
• Stakeholder Management: Established credentials in managing diverse stakeholders, from senior leadership to end-users and technical experts.
• Problem Solving & Analytical Skills: Excellent ability to frame complex problems, perform critical analysis, and drive towards a solution.
• Project & Product Management: Prior product management exposure is highly preferred with demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Interpersonal skills & Integrity: Highly resourceful team-player, who builds relationships with co-workers and external stakeholders with proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response

The role is location agnostic.

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.