Team Lead Engineering ERP Product Architecture — Roche

Full description

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. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position As an Engineering Manager you will focus on capabilities development of your team members that align with the function’s vision. You will encourage your team to self-define their career journey and seek ways to enable development opportunities in the direction of the journey. You will support them in removing roadblocks and by setting focus in their performance management. You make sure to develop your team with the right skills, healthy dynamics and a sustainable pace. You support the software and/or service delivery as a leader setting focus, removing impediments, managing stakeholders and creating efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible.

Description of the area The primary focus of this role is to ensure a sustainable ERP digital core, essential for sustaining the ASPIRE program by connecting architectural decisions under Product Area Architecture. The focus is to establish and maintain a centralized, standardized, and sustainable ASPIRE SAP solution that ensures design integrity, clean-core alignment, and optimal future evolution from deployment into steady-state operations. This role has significant content responsibilities related to architectural accountabilities in ERP Cross Value stream and in the ASPIRE Product Architecture.

The Opportunity

• Team Member Capability and Career Development 
• Focuses on developing engineering team capabilities that align with the immediate project needs and goals and function's overall vision.
• Encourages team members to self-define their career journey and actively enables development opportunities that align with it.
• Removes roadblocks and sets clear, achievable performance goals.
• Ensures the team develops the right skills and healthy internal dynamics to meet current and future challenges.
• Team Health and Sustainability 
• Maintains a sustainable pace of work for the team, balancing delivery goals with team well-being.
• Cultivates healthy team dynamics and collaboration, ensuring psychological safety and open communication.
• Removes impediments that hinder flow or morale, acting as an escalation point for the team.
• Ensures team members are equipped with the necessary, relevant skills and that roles are clearly defined.
• Product and Service Delivery Leadership ⚙️
• Responsible for co-creating the Product / Service Roadmap from a technical perspective, partnering with the Product Manager who is overall responsible.
• Accountable for the team's end-to-end delivery of features as part of the product development, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and quality standards.
• Sets clear focus and priorities for the team's delivery work, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps.
• Actively removes impediments and roadblocks to progress, escalating when necessary to protect the team's focus.
• Manages and aligns stakeholders' expectations and needs, providing regular updates on progress and risks.
• Creates efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible across teams and functions.
• Performance & Optimization ⏫
• Defines success metrics, analyzes workforce capability trends, and identifies opportunities for optimization to achieve business goals.
• Translates data into actionable insights and regularly communicates delivery performance to stakeholders and the wider team.
• Identifies and implements process improvements within the team and in its interactions with other teams to boost efficiency and quality.
• Financial & Resource Mgmt. 
• Support