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The PositionThe Senior IT Data Scientist is responsible for leading, developing, and implementing data-driven solutions to complex business problems. This role involves independently identifying analytical opportunities, conducting in-depth data exploration and analysis, and building, testing, and deploying predictive models using various machine learning techniques. You will own projects from inception to deployment, leveraging strong programming, statistical modeling, and data visualization skills, while clearly communicating findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Description of the area
Job Responsibilities
Scope / (Content Leadership): Leads the development and deployment of models. Works independently on specific data science projects from start to finish.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Identifies and solves intermediate to complex data problems. Validates models and ensures their accuracy with minimal supervision.
Stakeholder Management: Engages with broader business units to clearly understand and meet their data needs. Presents analytical findings and insights to various stakeholders, including non-technical audiences.
Impact/Strategy: Drives medium-sized projects that directly influence business decisions. Ensures that projects are closely aligned with broader business objectives and strategies.
Complexity / (Product Size): Handles larger, more complex datasets. Develops new predictive models from scratch and optimizes existing ones to improve performance.
Business / Technical ability: Applies proficiency in multiple programming languages and advanced data manipulation techniques. Leverages a strong knowledge of advanced statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to address business questions.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Demonstrated experience in independently identifying analytical opportunities, conducting in-depth data exploration, and owning projects from inception to deployment.
Proven track record of driving medium-sized projects that influence business decisions and align with strategic objectives.
Technical Skills
Proficient in multiple programming languages and advanced data manipulation.
Strong, in-depth knowledge of advanced statistical methods and machine learning algorithms.
Strong data visualization and statistical modeling skills to support comprehensive data analysis.
Additional Qualifications
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly to various stakeholders, including non-technical audiences.
Strong collaborative capabilities to effectively engage with broader business units to understand and meet data needs.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Experience independently identifying analytical opportunities and conducting in-depth data exploration.
- Experience owning data science projects from inception through deployment.
- Experience driving medium-sized projects that influence business decisions and align with strategic objectives.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages and advanced data manipulation.
- Strong knowledge of advanced statistical methods and machine learning algorithms.
- Strong data visualization and statistical modeling skills.
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to present complex findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration skills for engaging with broader business units and understanding their data needs.
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
