Business Architect – Platform Strategy and Transformation — Roche
- Location
- Sant Cugat del Vallès
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 15 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.
- Your tasks and Responsibilities
- Architectural Guardianship: Define and maintain the Architecture roadmap and Reference Architecture, ensuring all solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with the Roche Ecosystem strategy.
Main responsibilities
- Your tasks and Responsibilities
- Architectural Guardianship: Define and maintain the Architecture roadmap and Reference Architecture, ensuring all solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with the Roche Ecosystem strategy.
Application process
- Through collaboration across the organization, you will lead efforts to integrate applications and systems effectively, drive innovation, and uphold the architectural integrity of Roche's customer-facing products.
- Furthermore, you will play a key role in advancing Roche’s common platform strategy by contributing to its scalability, reliability, interoperability, and alignment with the needs of digital medical products and engineering teams.
- Strategy & Integration: Lead the delivery of actionable technology strategies and blueprints, guiding the integration of applications using standard building blocks and reusable components.
- Platform Leadership: Drive "platform-first" approaches, identifying technical gaps and developing innovative solutions for data interoperability and event-driven frameworks.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Engineers, Product Managers, and Sales/Medical teams to support strategic outcomes and ensure consistent technological implementation across customer-facing products.
- Quality & Risk Management: Analyze non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability) and establish governance to reduce duplication and improve system robustness. Who you are
- Education & Experience: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, with at least 10+ years of experience in business/reference architecture and shared platform strategies.
- Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of platform strategies, architectural governance, APIs, and shared services models.
Company and context
- As a Business Architect, you will define and maintain the architectural vision and strategy for the Roche organization, ensuring alignment with business goals and supporting the adoption and implementation of Roche’s Reference Architecture.
- Acting as the authority and guardian of the Reference Architecture, you will create comprehensive solutions, promote best practices, and ensure architecture components and building blocks are reusable, scalable, and align with established standards.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- Quality & Risk Management: Analyze non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability) and establish governance to reduce duplication and improve system robustness.
- Soft Skills: Advanced consulting and communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate in cross-functional, global environments and translate business goals into technical roadmaps. A healthier future drives us to innovate.
Notes and original content
- The Position
- Who you are
- Soft Skills: Advanced consulting and communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate in cross-functional, global environments and translate business goals into technical roadmaps.
- Who we are
- A healthier future drives us to innovate.
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 62'000 - 94'000 gross per year for this position in Sant Cugat del Vallès. 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.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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