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The PositionThe Data Management & Governance Specialist implements data governance policies and data quality initiatives. In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring data reliability and independently resolving compliance challenges. This position involves direct communication with data owners and advising data consumers on proper data usage. You will enhance data governance frameworks and translate business and regulatory requirements into actionable policies, ensuring trusted data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Job Responsibilities
Scope / (Content Leadership): Implements specific data governance policies or standards. Contributes to developing data models, data management best practices for data quality or lineage with minimum supervision.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Takes full accountability for data quality initiatives within assigned data domains. Resolves data governance issues or policy compliance challenges independently or with minimum guidance.
Stakeholder Management: Communicates directly with data owners and stewards regarding data policies. Advises data consumers on data availability, quality, and usage guidelines.
Impact/Strategy: Ensures data assets are reliable and compliant, enabling trusted data decisions. Identifies opportunities to enhance data governance frameworks or processes.
Complexity / (Product Size): Manages moderately complex data governance initiatives involving multiple data sets. Works with data management components within specific data domains or platforms.
Business / Technical ability: Demonstrates strong knowledge of data governance principles and data lifecycle management. Translates regulatory requirements or business needs into actionable data management policies.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Demonstrated experience in implementing data governance policies and data quality initiatives.
Regulated environment experience will be an asset
Proven track record of taking full accountability for data quality within assigned domains and resolving policy compliance challenges with minimal guidance.
Experience managing moderately complex data governance initiatives involving multiple data sets and platforms.
Technical / Business Skills
Strong knowledge of data models, data governance principles and data lifecycle management.
Proven ability to translate regulatory requirements or business needs into actionable data management policies.
Familiarity working with data management components within specific data domains or platforms.
Additional Qualifications
Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate directly with data owners and stewards regarding data policies.
Capability to effectively advise data consumers on data availability, quality, and usage guidelines.
Proactive mindset to identify opportunities to enhance data governance frameworks or processes.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Madrid. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.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 implementing data governance policies and data quality initiatives
- Experience taking accountability for data quality within assigned domains and resolving policy compliance challenges with minimal guidance
- Experience managing moderately complex data governance initiatives involving multiple datasets and platforms
- Strong knowledge of data models, data governance principles, and data lifecycle management
- Ability to translate regulatory requirements or business needs into actionable data management policies
- Familiarity with data management components within specific data domains or platforms
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills with data owners, stewards, and consumers
- Experience working in a regulated environment
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).
