Platform Strategy Lead

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

Role Purpose :

As the Platform Strategy Sub Chapter Lead, you will be responsible for driving the strategy for Roche’s common platforms to support digital medical products and engineering excellence. You will have a key influencer role to help shape and enable the strategic Roche platforms and contribute to the overall Roche Software transformation and capabilities building. Through coaching, mentoring, and creating programs, you’ll be focused on improving the way we develop software across the different software organizations.

You will provide effective leadership for the team in a manner that is consistent with the Roche values and leadership commitments. You will seek to inspire and lead your team to create transformative roadmaps and solutions ensuring that Roche products are recognized as being the best in the industry and maintain our #1 ranking in the future.

You will be responsible :

• Lead a team of program managers and architects. This team will have technical expertise to guide cutting edge technologies and informatics solutions that have cross-functional impact
• Drive engineering team’s performance by providing leadership, guidance and coaching to staff members on core competencies, goal setting, career development, performance management, problem solving and daily operations issues to avoid critical delays that might have far reaching impact
• Deliver programs on time with quality. Guide direct cross-functional software development projects and / or initiatives and manage budget accordingly. Actively manage vendor relationship and consulting services
• Lead the portfolio management, roadmap, and design of the Roche strategic (Cloud / Edge) software platforms that support digital medical products
• Perform strategic planning and tactical implementation of cloud-native solutions. This role will require cross-functional interaction and partnership with key engineering and product partners including ensuring access security, accessibility, interoperability and reusability
• Engage and support internal platform customers across all of Roche teams and help drive fast and consistent adoption of Roche common platforms and toolings and associated custom tool development and development tools management

Who you are :

Professional experience / duration : this is a senior role that requires several years of proven experience :

Specialist knowledge :

Locations

You will be based in Sant Cugat, Spain.

As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

Leadership Skills :

You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective leadership for your team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead your team to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of the market and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Vision.

The Platform Strategy Sub Chapter Lead is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are :

Follow the science

Act as one team

Accelerate learning

Simplify radically

Make impact now

Think long term

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