Principal Data Engineer — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 16 days ago
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.
- Key Responsibilities
- Drive data integration and data fabric adoption across the domains, bringing together data, business and development domains.
Main responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities
- Drive data integration and data fabric adoption across the domains, bringing together data, business and development domains.
Company and context
- Ensure best practices and support organization-wide standards for data quality, governance, security, and observability.
- Act as a technical subject matter expert, mentoring Senior and Staff Engineers and collaborating closely with engineering leadership, data scientists, and business stakeholders.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to shape data strategy, translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, and influence decision-making at both domain and enterprise levels.
- Spearhead the evaluation and integration of new technologies to continuously improve the performance and reliability of the data ecosystem.
- Troubleshoot and resolve the most complex performance and architectural challenges across the data ecosystem.
- You will be accountable for defining and ensuring timely delivery of all data-related requirements, including data integration, migration, storage, structure, legal compliance, privacy, quality, and insights generation.
- You will orchestrate DA&R engagement and delivery for digital products, activating the right DA&R capabilities.
- You will act as a key liaison, building and maintaining strong working relationships with cross-functional experts (other data experts, product owners, software engineers, clinicians) to jointly explore business opportunities and data assets. Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience in a Data Engineering role, with significant experience operating at a Principal or Staff-level capacity .
- Expert proficiency in SQL and Python.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- You will act as a key liaison, building and maintaining strong working relationships with cross-functional experts (other data experts, product owners, software engineers, clinicians) to jointly explore business opportunities and data assets.
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences.
- Experience with NoSQL and graph databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j).
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What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Basel. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
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