Enterprise Architect — Roche

Full description

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The Position

Enterprise Architect

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides essential architectural oversight, visionary leadership, and strategic guidance across a broad Cross-Domain context. In this highly impactful role, you will take on the most complex, cross-functional topics that span multiple business and technology areas. A significant focus of your mandate will be architecting "RDT as a Business" (Informatics Domain), treating our internal Roche Digital Technology organization as a critical business line. Your scope will also encompass other overarching enterprise initiatives across and beyond RDT. You will guide others in resolving highly complex issues and problems that have widespread implications on cross-functional organizational processes and outcomes.

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 operational leaders, the Transformation Office, RDT Excellence, and Portfolio Management to establish a modern, integrated operating model. This area ensures that operations are built on insight generation and adhere to industry standards (e.g., IT4IT, ITIL), establishing robust architecture support for strategic internal and cross-functional initiatives.

Job Responsibilities

• Architecting the North Star for "RDT as a Business": Define target-state architectures and capability models for RDT's internal operations. Take ownership of defining and evolving the RDT Application and Technology Landscape and Data Model, ensuring robust architecture support for strategic internal initiatives.
• Operating Model optimization: Actively support the evolution of the Operating Model and integrating its elements (eg. Strategy, Portfolio, Delivery, Operations). Shift the organization toward Data-Driven Portfolio Management and Agile, AI enabled Delivery and Operations, ensuring connection to our existing IT landscape assets and providing traceability.
• Architecture Governance & Standards ("Enable & Govern"): Lead architecture governance for Informatics Domain and drive cross-domain alignment across Information, Technology, Business, and Application Architecture. Provide clarity, "paved roads," and guardrails that enable speed and effectiveness in delivery rather than creating bureaucratic friction.
• Tackling Complex Cross-Functional Topics: Guide matrixed teams in resolving the most complex cross-functional issues with broad implications on organizational processes and outcomes. Act as the architectural lead for major cross-domain initiatives that span beyond a single function, ensuring cohesive target architectures across the enterprise.
• Cross-Domain Coherence & Technical Debt Management: Conduct rigorous architectural impact assessments for cross-domain initiatives. Actively manage technical debt and support Future State Architecture by systematically simplifying the application landscape, decommissioning redundant systems, and establishing governance to prevent future complexity.
• Data-Driven Transparency: Promote the philosophy that the value of architecture is measured by better decisions and delivery outcomes. Leverage our integrated architecture toolchain (ArchiMEDES) to provide critical architectural i