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The PositionRole OverviewAs a Full Stack Developer (SE7), you will serve as a technical leader, innovator, and backlog accountable within Roche’s RDT Engineering Excellence & Experience organization. You will drive large-scale (Medium to Large) technical initiatives and optimize the developer experience for thousands of engineers worldwide.
In this role, you will take ownership of Roche’s core integration portfolio and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem (spanning RETINA/Codebeamer, Jira and Confluence among other similar solutions). You will design integration layers among the toolchain, pioneer applied AI/MCP solutions, drive legacy platform migrations, and lead high-performing engineering teams all while enforcing GxP compliance, high code quality, and cybersecurity standards.
Key ResponsibilitiesLeading Integration layer among different solutions within EEx (Engineering Experience Product)
- Portfolio Ownership: Manage and scale a business-critical portfolio of internal integration products (e.g., OpsHub, MCP Synapse, T-REX, Allure Importer, TDG Importer, Reports4Diait, RAO).
- Ecosystem Interoperability: Design seamless, secure, and resilient interoperability across Roche’s engineering toolchain (RETINA, Jira, Tosca, ADO, Aha!, GitLab, GitHub) using platforms like OpsHub and OpenPDM to deliver unified developer experiences for 6,000+ concurrent users globally.
- Engineering Productivity: Continuously evaluate, recommend, and integrate market-leading integration tooling to streamline developer workflows and enhance the end-to-end Roche developer experience.
- Backlog management: Contribute to the creation and prioritization of the integrations backlog as a technical product owner and take accountability for the backlog execution.
Technical solutions, Systemic Migration & Roadblock Removal
- Platform Decommissioning & Modernization: Design and execute platform-wide decommissioning of legacy ecosystems (e.g., WebIT) and transition workloads to modern architectures without business disruption.
- Enterprise Integration Layers: Design robust integration layers (e.g. between RETINA and CIDM), negotiating alignment across IT & Business stakeholders to execute massive migrations affecting 30,000+ users and thousands of active projects.
- Obstacle Removal: Identify and resolve systemic technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and operational blockers across technical teams to accelerate digital product delivery.
Intelligent Automation & AI Innovation
- Applied AI Architecture: Conceptualize, build, and maintain enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) layers (e.g., MCP Synapse) across ALM systems and other tools, collaborating closely with central enterprise AI and integration teams (such as MuleSoft and LUMIN).
- Test & Workflow Automation: Design high-impact, scalable and easy to maintain automation engines (e.g., T-REX) to automate test imports, data management, and operational workflows, drastically reducing manual engineering overhead.
Vendor Strategy, Procurement & Financial Optimization
- Commercial Alignment: Whenever required, partner directly with Global Procurement and Legal teams to run formal vendor RFPs, evaluate external vendor ecosystems, and align software integration strategies with vendor optimization.
- Software Asset Optimization: Optimize enterprise software licensing structures across the integration ecosystem to drive cost efficiency.
Regulatory, GxP & Cultural Leadership
- GxP Validation & Quality: Set and enforce Roche-wide best practices for code quality, cybersecurity, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and software validation within strictly regulated GxP environments.
- Culture Championship: Foster cultural awareness and support the establishment of high-performance engineering cultures and collaborative practices across global tech hubs.
Required Qualifications & ExpertiseExperience & Leadership
- Large-Scale Initiative Delivery: Proven track record of driving Medium to Large (M/L) cross-functional technical initiatives at a Product level.
- Migration & Integration Expertise: Demonstrated experience managing complex enterprise integrations across diverse tools (preferably on GxP environments) and leading multi-thousand-user legacy migrations.
- Backlog management: Experience contributing to the creation and prioritization of the integrations backlog and taking accountability for the backlog execution.
- Vendor & Procurement Management: Experience participating with procurement and legal teams on enterprise RFPs, contract negotiations, and cost-optimization strategies.
Technical & Engineering Skills
- Core Languages & Full-Stack Development: Deep, hands-on programming expertise in Python, Java, and JavaScript, along with modern full-stack application frameworks.
- ALM & Integration Ecosystems: Familiarity with tools like Jira, Codebeamer (RETINA), OpsHub, Tosca, Azure DevOps, Aha!, GitLab, and GitHub.
- AI & Agentic Operations: Practical experience creating and validating Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agent workflows, or agentic automation frameworks.
- Infrastructure, Containers & GxP: Solid understanding of the Infrastructure Delivery Lifecycle, container orchestrations (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD automation, and software validation under a strict GxP regulatory framework.
- Software Operations: Proven ability in performance tuning, load management, and maintaining high availability for multi-tenant enterprise platforms.
Behavioral & Leadership Capabilities
- Stakeholder Negotiation: Exceptional ability to navigate complex organizational ecosystems, align engineering efforts and negotiate win-win outcomes.
- Horizon Scanning: Capability to anticipate future technical trends, proactively mitigate risks, and shape the long-term technical direction of the organization.
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
- Proven experience driving medium-to-large cross-functional technical initiatives at a product level
- Experience managing complex enterprise integrations across diverse tools, preferably in GxP environments
- Experience leading legacy migrations affecting thousands of users
- Experience creating and prioritizing integration backlogs and owning backlog execution
- Experience participating in enterprise RFPs, contract negotiations, procurement, legal, and cost-optimization activities
- Deep hands-on programming expertise in Python, Java, and JavaScript
- Experience with modern full-stack application frameworks
- Familiarity with Jira, Codebeamer, OpsHub, Tosca, Azure DevOps, Aha!, GitLab, and GitHub
- Practical experience creating and validating Model Context Protocol layers, AI agent workflows, or agentic automation frameworks
- Understanding of infrastructure delivery lifecycles, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and software validation under GxP regulations
- Ability to tune performance, manage load, and maintain high availability for multi-tenant enterprise platforms
- Exceptional stakeholder negotiation and organizational alignment skills
- Ability to anticipate technical trends, mitigate risks, and shape long-term technical direction
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).
