Solution Architect - People & Culture

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The Position

Solution Architect - People & Culture

The Solution Architect is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision across a Solution / Release Train in accordance with the overall Informatics technology strategy and principles to help ensure the system or Solution under development is fit for its intended purpose. Solution Architect ensures that the system is designed to run as expected, has built-in observability, balances emergent design, and takes a system view across the full value stream. 

You will work with product managers, product line leads and the business stakeholders to enable and guide the design and development of an integrated view of the business processes and associated business landscape to identify current and future opportunities for synergy, integration, and knowledge sharing. You will align with the enterprise architects and other solution architects to realize the vision of the domain and promote platform thinking, reusability, and interoperability.

You will lead and control cross-solution architecture design questions with vendors, internal and external partners, and design authorities. Therefore experiences with ownership of cross-solution designs and leadership skills to lead a diverse team to get to a common design solution proposal is essential.

Your key responsibilities:

• Providing strategic consultation to assigned line-of-business (LOB) customers in defining or designing business processes, functions, and organizational structures, as well as using customer requirements in researching, identifying, and internally marketing enabling technologies

• Assessing current state of solutions, defines future state needs, identifies gaps, and recommends new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements

• Business process engineering/re-engineering

• Facilitating stakeholder sessions with personnel across all disciplines in the company to identify and define requirements, assess business processes, and evaluate technology solutions

• Conducting solution architecture research, PoCs, PoVs, and feasibility assessment, and facilitate solution application selections 

• Formulating business and logical data and solution architectures comprised of software, network, hardware, and integration designs

• Conducting impact assessments and mitigation plans

• Working closely with Enterprise Architects on defining long-term architecture vision, integration patterns, and review of a technical portfolio

• Creating and owning the Solution Architecture documentation

• Developing IT Strategy & Roadmap consistent with the overall strategic needs of the business division.

Your qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related study, or equivalent experience

• 7-10 years of professional IT experience. The person must have demonstrated an ability to think strategically and translate plans into operational excellence

• Deep expertise & business knowledge in HR and Learning Management Solutions

• Implementation expertise in major platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, Cornerstone

• Expertise in multiple technology domains (e.g. Cloud, Automation, Data, AI)

• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies

• Remains “evergreen” and keeps up-to-date with technology trends and emerging technologies

• Demonstrated ability to develop and articulate a vision for one or more technology domains 

• Proven experience in creating architecture designs using a formal architecture framework methodology – TOGAF, Zachman

• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations

• Demonstrated ability to frame complex issues and persuade a wide and diverse audience

What you get:

• Good and stable working environment with attractive compensation and rewards package (according to local regulations);

• Full time employment contract;

• Annual bonus payment based on performance;

• A dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences);

• Access to various internal and external training platforms (e.g. Linkedin Learning);

• Experienced and professional colleagues and workplace that supports innovation;

• Multiple Savings Plans with Employer Match 

• Company’s emphasis on employees’ wellness and work-life balance ( (e.g. generous vacation days and OneRoche Wellness Days ),

• Workplace flexibility policy;

• State of art working environment and facilities;

• And many more that the Talent Acquisition Partner will be happy to talk about!

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

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