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The PositionIntroduction
The ERP Solution Architect designs business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready E2E solutions that involve, but go beyond ERP. In this role, you will design solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards while managing non-functional requirements and evolving the architecture throughout the product life cycle. By solving complex technical problems, defining reference architectures, and aligning with the broader architecture community for governance, you will ensure robust implementations that deliver enhanced value to the organization.
The Opportunity:
Design E2E Solutions: Serve as the primary point of contact for mediation and digital product provisioning, designing robust solutions that align product requirements with enterprise architecture and RDT governance standards.
Drive Technical Roadmap & Strategy: Own, develop, and maintain the product's technology roadmap while assessing impacts, managing technical debt, and piloting new technologies to maximize business value.
Manage Commercial Backoffice Standards: Own all technical matters related to usage mediation and provisioning of digital products, driving discussions with digital product teams to ensure full adoption of commercial backoffice standards.
Architectural Governance & Documentation: Document and continuously evolve the architecture throughout the product lifecycle, managing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), fitness functions, and reference patterns.
Lead Stakeholder Collaboration: Explain complex or sensitive technical information to diverse audiences, working collaboratively to build consensus among product teams, business stakeholders, and technical peers.
Bridge Business & Technology: Bring together deep technical expertise with a strong business understanding to seamlessly integrate digital product teams with commercial backoffice ecosystems.
Provide Technical Oversight: Deliver high-level technical guidance, mentorship, and consultation for digital product teams, identifying clear opportunities to improve existing applications.
Support Global Operations: Drive operational excellence by analyzing end-to-end production issues and ensuring accurate, timely corrective actions across the integrated application landscape.
Who you are:
Education: Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field (Required).
Architectural & ERP Experience: Demonstrated extensive experience designing, documenting, and implementing business-driven, standards-based solutions within an ERP landscape (SAP ECC and SAP S/4 environments preferred).
Integration & Mediation Expertise: Proven track record with System Integration Technologies, common Integration Design Patterns (MuleSoft, CPI, Solace, Event mesh preferred), and knowledge of Convergent mediation via DigitalRoute.
API & Development Skills: Proficient in using API tools like Postman/Bruno, combined with developer experience in languages such as JavaScript and Python.
Agile Frameworks: Experienced working in Agile methodologies (like SAFe and Scrum) with a proven ability to collaborate seamlessly with local, nearshore, and offshore cross-functional teams.
Analytical Problem Solver: Strong analytical skills with the ability to take a new perspective on existing solutions, owning complex technical issues end-to-end to ensure permanent resolution.
PDF (Google Drive)Communication & Influencing: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of explaining sensitive technical details and driving consensus across diverse organizational stakeholders.
Ready to bring your unique qualities to Roche and make an impact? Apply now and join us in our mission to shape the future of healthcare.
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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 degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar
- Experience designing, documenting, and implementing solutions in ERP landscapes
- Expertise with System Integration Technologies and Design Patterns
- Proficiency in API tools and development languages like JavaScript and Python
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
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.
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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).
