Enterprise Architect - Data & AI (Cross Domain) — Roche

Full description

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The Position

Enterprise Architect - Data & AI (Cross Domain) The Principal Enterprise Architect for Data & AI provides essential architectural oversight, visionary leadership, and strategic guidance across a Cross-Domain context. Reporting directly to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, this highly impactful role is specifically designed to architect and oversee Roche’s largest, most promising AI and Data use cases that span across multiple functions (Pharma R&D, Pharma Medicines, Diagnostics, Group Functions, Data, AI, EPIE, Information Security). In this role, you will act as a principal orchestrator across the broader global architecture community. Rather than focusing on a single sub-function, you will guide cross-domain alignment to balance enterprise coherence with functional autonomy. By architecting scalable Data & AI ecosystems and defining the "digital laws" that govern them, you will safely accelerate the adoption of high-value AI capabilities while actively preventing technological fragmentation and agentic chaos.

Description of the Area

The Strategy, Portfolio & Governance (SPG) Enterprise Architecture function shapes, aligns, and executes technology strategy by connecting business ambition to investment, architecture, and delivery. For this specific role, a primary domain is Informatics (RDT scope), alongside other complex cross-enterprise domains. You will partner closely with the RDT Artificial Intelligence and RDT Data functions to bridge overarching enterprise strategy with tangible technology execution. While you will support our vertical business facing functions to implement the most complex AI solutions you will ensure that foundational AI models, data products, and agentic workflows are built for enterprise-wide reuse, aligning closely with the ambitious RDT Excellence goals to simplify our landscape and drive value through digital synergy.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategic AI Program Leadership: Maintain the architectural vision and roadmap for the largest, most transformative cross-domain Data & AI initiatives. Define target architectures that align seamlessly with overarching enterprise strategy, ensuring that high-value AI use cases deliver measurable business impact.
• Cross-Domain Orchestration ("Federated by Design"): Act as the vital connective tissue between various business divisions. Partner with Domain Architects across Pharma and Diagnostics to ensure that AI solutions and data products developed in one area can be leveraged globally, optimizing the overarching application landscape.
• AI Governance & Assurance ("Everything-as-Code"): Lead architecture governance to drive alignment across functions. Establish a lightweight, principle-driven governance model underpinned by reference architectures and automated guardrails. You will author the digital guardrails that ensure AI compliance, security, and ethical use without creating bureaucratic bottlenecks.
• Strategic Advisory & Technology Innovation: Assess and drive the adoption of external technology trends (e.g., emerging LLMs, RAG patterns, Agentic AI), identifying opportunities to reuse, consolidate, and optimize the enterprise technology landscape. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, supporting informed trade-offs between speed, cost, risk, reuse, and sustainability.
• Portfolio & Investment Alignment: Collaborate with portfolio management to embed architectural insights into investment processes. Provide critical architectural insights to t