Responsibilities
- Jointly develop IT product roadmaps with engineering teams and product heads and advise on technology choices.
- Design and own end-to-end solution architectures aligned with product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards.
- Assess functional and non-functional requirements, define architecture runway and design decisions, and maintain architecture documentation throughout the product lifecycle.
- Provide technical oversight and collaborate with development teams to resolve system-development and support challenges.
- Research emerging technologies, including agentic AI and ML, and lead proof-of-concept initiatives.
- Optimize IT investments, identify cost-saving opportunities, and mitigate security, compliance, technical debt, and obsolescence risks.
- Develop and maintain data models, taxonomies, ontologies, integration pathways, reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions.
- Collaborate with solution, information, and enterprise architects across products and help develop architecture practices and mentor others.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Lead, including at least 4 years in the life sciences or pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience designing business-driven, standards-based solutions across complex or multiple product and solution contexts.
- Experience maintaining architecture visions, roadmaps, and landscapes while assessing impacts on capabilities, risks, and applications.
- Experience with pharma or biotech systems, particularly clinical trial data systems such as EDC, non-CRF data systems, digital health technologies, and clinical data warehouses.
- Experience with ETL/ELT, data warehouses, data lakes or lakehouses, enterprise data integration patterns, relational and object databases, and AWS or other cloud technologies.
- Expert-level knowledge across multiple technology areas and proficiency in conceptual and logical data modeling, taxonomies, ontologies, and integration pathways.
- Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, non-functional requirements, and fitness functions.
- Ability to evaluate technology trends, assess feasibility, conduct vendor assessments, communicate complex concepts, negotiate, and influence stakeholders.
- Preferred knowledge of pharma regulations, including GxP and computer validation.
- Fluent English, flexibility with shifting priorities, and willingness to collaborate during Roche Golden Hours from 4:00 to 7:00 PM CET.
Benefits
- Expected base salary is 228,900.00 PLN to 425,100.00 PLN for the primary Warsaw Grafit location.
- Potential discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20%, subject to individual and company performance.
- Attractive benefits package.
- Work location is Warsaw or Poznan, with collaboration required during Roche Golden Hours from 4:00 to 7:00 PM CET.
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About Roche
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). For more information, please visit https://careers.roche.com Read our community guidelines here: https://www.roche.com/some-guidelines.htm #Roche #Biotechnology #Pharmaceuticals #Diagnostics #Healthcare #PersonalisedHealthcare #GreatPlaceToWork #Innovation