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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.
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Skills Required
- Design business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a specific solution context
- Maintain vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions and assess initiative impacts on risk and application landscape
- Hands-on experience creating Proofs of Concept (PoCs)
- Modern architecture practices including use of non-functional requirements and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Proficiency creating Conceptual and Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies
- Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions
- Experience conducting vendor assessments and evaluating external technology trends
- Previous experience collaborating with R&D users
- Strong collaboration, influencing, communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-resolution skills and a proactive mindset to identify opportunities and manage technical debt
Genentech Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Genentech and has not been reviewed or approved by Genentech.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, vision, mental health, and prescriptions, supported by HSAs/FSAs and broad wellness resources. On‑site fitness and health centers, mental‑health clinicians, and specialized programs like fully covered preventive cancer screenings and menopause support deepen the offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) with up to a 4% company match plus an additional annual 6% company contribution to eligible pay. Additional financial protections such as life and accident insurance complement salary, bonuses, and stock options.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes about 20 paid vacation days, paid holidays, personal days, and a year‑end shutdown. A paid six‑week sabbatical every six years notably expands long‑term time‑off flexibility.
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What We Do
Considered the founder of the industry, Genentech, now a member of the Roche Group, has been delivering on the promise of biotechnology for more than 40 years. Genentech is a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Our transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis. We're passionate about finding solutions for people facing the world's most difficult-to-treat conditions. That is why we use cutting-edge science to create and deliver innovative medicines around the globe. To us, science is personal. Making a difference in the lives of millions starts when you make a change in yours.
