Domain Architect - Pharma R&D — Roche
NewCHF 49'500 - 75'000
Roche · Basel (BS)
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 2 days ago
SalaryCHF 49'500 - 75'000
Role overview
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.
- 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.
Application process
- Description of the Area The Enterprise Architecture Business Partnering Functions area serves as the strategic architectural point of contact for business domain leaders, fostering collaboration to align applications, business capabilities, and information assets with technology solutions.
- For the Pharma R&D domain, this involves deeply integrating with teams such as Clinical Trial Execution & Quality, Patient Safety & Medical Affairs, Biometrics and Clinical Evidence, Regulatory Affairs & China Clinical Development, Discovery & Preclinical and R&D Portfolio Management and Operational Excellence to drive efficiency and innovation with end-to-end accountability.
- This role ensures that the bridge between SPG’s enterprise vision and Pharma R&D’s operational execution is seamless, collaborative, and highly effective. The Opportunity:
- You will act as the strategic liaison between SPG EA and Pharma R&D, partnering with leadership to align business priorities with multi-year roadmaps.
- You lead the Pharma R&D architecture network, shaping shared strategic priorities and enabling architects to execute while maintaining enterprise alignment.
- You provide leadership for architecture governance activities, overseeing deliverables and technology guardrails to ensure security and resilience.
- You drive the success of large, critical technology programs by translating strategy into actionable, transformative initiatives that deliver business value.
- You develop and maintain core architecture artifacts, including Capability Maps and Target-State Architectures, using the standard RDT toolchain.
Company and context
- This position plays a critical role between the Strategy, Portfolio & Governance (SPG) organization and the Pharma R&D function.
- Reporting directly to the Head of Enterprise Architecture Business Partnering Functions with a dotted line to the Global Head of Digital Technology
- Pharma R&D, you will champion our enterprise architecture practices while deeply understanding the unique complexities of the Pharma R&D environment.
- Crucially, in our federated Roche Digital Technology (RDT) model, you will act as the principal orchestrator of the Pharma R&D architecture network.
- By leading this network—which includes yourself alongside all domain and solution architects embedded directly within the Pharma R&D organization—you will drive architecture governance and strategy formulation, ensure enterprise coherence, and translate business goals into adaptable, future-ready roadmaps.
- You hold a Master’s degree and bring previous experience in IT and enterprise architecture, specifically within complex, matrixed, or federated global organizations.
- You possess deep domain experience in Pharma R&D, with a comprehensive understanding of scientific and clinical processes (e.g., Clinical Trial Execution, Discovery & Preclinical, Biometrics, and Reg
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters. The Position Domain Architect
- This role ensures that the bridge between SPG’s enterprise vision and Pharma R&D’s operational execution is seamless, collaborative, and highly effective.
- You influence a complex, federated RDT model, balancing enterprise coherence with the agility required for local operational execution.
Notes and original content
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- The Position Domain Architect
- The Opportunity:
- Who you are:
