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The Solution Architect focuses on designing business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready solutions within a specific solution context. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, translating complex technical concepts into successful solutions addressing problems across R&D laboratories. Your responsibilities will span the entire solution lifecycle, from design to implementation, ensuring solutions meet high-performance standards and security requirements. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of enterprise IT landscapes, driving digital transformation and operational efficiency for organizations across various industries.
The Opportunity
Scope / (Content Leadership): Designs solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards within a specific Solution Context. Manages Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and fitness functions. Documents and evolves the architecture throughout the product life cycle and aligns with the architecture community for governance.
Solution Design: Architect scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions tailored to business needs.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves complex problems by taking a new perspective on existing solutions and exercising judgment based on the analysis of multiple information sources. Maintains the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for the solution. Assesses and consults on the impacts and dependencies of initiatives on capabilities, risk, and the application landscape. Creates Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for the solution and its interfaces. Defines and drives reference architectures, patterns, and ensures Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are appropriately recorded.
Stakeholder Management: Explains difficult or sensitive information clearly and actively works to build consensus among stakeholders. Drives information sharing and exchange about the solution.
Impact/Strategy: Understand technical opportunities to improve business value. Provides technical oversight, guidance, and consultation on specific technologies for product teams. Improves existing solutions, manages technical debt, and researches, evaluates, pilots, and drives the adoption of new technologies. Identifies opportunities to enhance value.
Who you are
Education / Experience
Demonstrated experience designing business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a specific solution context.
Experience maintaining the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions, and assessing the impacts of initiatives on risk and application landscapes.
Hands on experience in creating PoCs
Previous experience collaborating with R&D users preferred
Technical Skills
Modern architecture practices, including effective use of non functional requirements and architecture decision records
Proficiency in creating Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for solutions and interfaces.
Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions.
Strong capability to drive external technology trends and assess feasibility for the solution, including conducting vendor assessments.
Additional Qualifications
Solid collaboration and influencing skills with a proven ability to lead and inspire
Strong analytical, logical problem-resolution skills
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and successfully build consensus.
Proactive mindset to identify opportunities to enhance value and business processes, improve existing solutions, and manage technical debt.
This position also offers an attractive benefits package.
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Who we areA 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
- Design business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a solution context
- Maintain vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions and assess initiative impacts
- Hands-on experience creating Proofs of Concept (PoCs)
- Experience collaborating with R&D users
- Modern architecture practices, including use of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Create Conceptual and Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies
- Define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions
- Conduct vendor assessments and evaluate new technologies for feasibility and adoption
- Strong collaboration, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-resolution skills
- Proactive mindset to identify process/value improvements and manage technical debt
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).
