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The PositionBusiness Intelligence (BI) Lead
Roche India – Roche Services & Solutions
Hyderabad or Chennai
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
That’s what makes us Roche.
Roche has established the Global Analytics and Technology Center of Excellence (GATE) at Chennai to drive analytics & technology-driven solutions by partnering with Roche affiliates across the globe.
The Opportunity
As a Business Intelligence (BI) Lead, you will drive the end to end delivery of Business Intelligence solutions while serving as the go-to person in conversations with our partners. This is a true leadership role. The ideal candidate brings the right blend of technical depth and business understanding to navigate conversations around feasibility, data challenges, tool selection, and delivery timelines with confidence, keeping discussions productive and moving forward. Beyond responding to what is asked, you will be a thought partner to our stakeholders, proactively suggesting better approaches to visualizing data, identifying more meaningful KPIs, and recommending data sources or methods that stakeholders may not have considered.
All Roche employees are expected to effectively contribute to cross-functional collaboration and coordination and comply with all laws, regulations, policies & procedures that govern our business.
As a Business Intelligence (BI) Lead, you will:
Serve as the primary point of contact for business leaders to gather requirements, manage expectations, and provide transparent project timelines across multiple workstreams
Assess and recommend the right BI approach for a given problem, considering data availability, platform capabilities, and business context, and communicate trade-offs clearly to non-technical audiences
Drive the design and delivery of enterprise-grade BI applications (Tableau), ensuring scalability, performance, security and data governance
Lead data discovery sessions to identify new data sources and ensure the underlying data warehouse architecture supports long-term BI reporting needs
Guide the translation of business requirements into analytics prototypes that provide meaningful business and data insights
Oversee data and BI analysis efforts, including review of source systems, KPI definitions and aggregations, ensuring quality and consistency
Review and guide the development of Tableau applications, ensuring reporting components from multiple data sources are integrated effectively
Create and understand Figma-based prototypes to understand the "user journey" of data. Translate these designs into functional KPIs for BI developers
Provide oversight of the end to end BI ecosystem (Desktop, Server, and Cloud), ensuring best practices in dashboard performance, security and scalability
Mentor and guide team members, fostering a collaborative environment and contributing to overall team growth
Who you are
You hold a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering or other technical disciplines) and 7+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, with a progressive shift from hands-on development to leading delivery and stakeholder engagement
Strong foundation in Tableau development, dashboarding, data modeling and reporting techniques, with the ability to guide and review the work of others
A consultative mindset, with the ability to assess feasibility, identify data challenges, and proactively suggest improvements in how data is used, visualized, or measured
Experience in developing and overseeing BI solutions supporting sales performance reporting
Experience in optimizing dashboards with a focus on usability, performance, flexibility and standardization
Experience in data modeling, data cleansing and data transformation activities.
Experience in end to end implementation of BI projects for developing a portfolio of scorecards, KPIs, reports & dashboards
Experience in writing and debugging SQL queries
Strong communication skills with the confidence to lead discussions and articulate technical constraints to business audiences
Experience guiding or mentoring a team of BI developers
Prior experience or knowledge of pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry landscape is an added advantage
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
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical discipline
- 7+ years experience in Business Intelligence with progression from hands-on to leading delivery and stakeholder engagement
- Strong foundation in Tableau development, dashboarding, data modeling and reporting techniques
- Experience creating and understanding Figma-based prototypes and translating them into functional KPIs
- Experience in sales performance reporting
- Experience optimizing dashboards for usability, performance, flexibility and standardization
- Experience in data modeling, data cleansing and data transformation activities
- Experience in end-to-end implementation of BI projects for scorecards, KPIs, reports and dashboards
- Experience writing and debugging SQL queries
- Experience guiding or mentoring a team of BI developers
- Strong communication skills; ability to lead discussions and articulate technical constraints to business audiences
- Prior experience or knowledge of pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry landscape
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).
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