Technical Leader - Digital Health Platform, Secure Cloud — Roche

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The Position Technical Leader - Digital Health Platform, Secure Cloud

Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week . The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

Roche’s expanding digital product portfolio demonstrates its commitment to provide healthcare professionals, laboratories, and patients with digital and digitally-enabled solutions that transform patient care. The existing product portfolio includes decision support systems, data management solutions, and workflow solutions. At the center of these diverse types of solutions is always patient data security and privacy as the highest priority for Roche.

In this context, Roche has built a global team that builds, secures, and operates infrastructure platforms (cloud and on-prem) for its digital products. This team is working with a high freedom to operate in a self-organized setup and is responsible for tackling the cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure challenges of the healthcare industry while enabling high-velocity product development.

The opportunity

The Technical Leader will join the Secure Account Management (SAM) team — responsible for cloud infrastructure, account provisioning, security, and governance across Roche's digital product portfolio. The team manages 650+ AWS accounts and enables application teams to build and operate healthcare solutions by providing secure, standardised infrastructure while maintaining development and deployment autonomy.

You will own the technical direction and architecture decisions for SAM's cloud platform. This means designing the systems that provision, secures, and governs hundreds of AWS accounts globally — and ensuring the engineering team builds them to a high standard. Your domain is the how: architecture, implementation quality, technical standards, and engineering growth.

What you will do

• Own technical architecture and design decisions for SAM — landing zone design, account vending, IAM governance, and identity management (AWS Identity Center).
• Translate the Security Architect's guardrail requirements and security standards into implementable engineering work — Terraform modules, automation pipelines, and detection/remediation patterns.
• Design for platform consumers, not just infrastructure: build reusable, self-service modules and APIs that over 200+ product teams can adopt without needing to contact SAM for every change.
• Drive automation-first engineering: replace manual, ticket-driven workflows with programmatic access, IaC-managed configuration, and self-service tooling.
• Set and enforce technical standards: code review expectations, Terraform module stru