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The PositionJob description
The Data Product Delivery Lead orchestrates the design and implementation of complex data engineering solutions, setting technical standards, and mentoring team members. Serving as the critical operational bridge between external technical consultants, this role translates strategic product roadmaps and architectural designs into tactical execution and requires deep expertise in distributed data systems, cloud data platforms, and advanced ETL/ELT patterns, enabling you to drive day-to-day agile delivery, troubleshoot intricate performance issues, and ensure the resilience, quality, and security of critical data infrastructure. You will drive technical excellence, oversee vendor delivery, and heavily influence the team's architectural decisions.
Description of the area
Job Responsibilities
Operational Bridge & Delivery Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison between external technical partners and internal Solution Architects and Product Owners, translating strategic product roadmaps and architectural designs into tactical execution plans.
Agile Team Leadership: Lead day-to-day delivery operations for the development squads, (including Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and backlog refinement to maintain high velocity, team predictability) and alignment with definition of done and business goals.
Vendor Delivery Oversight & Quality Control: Manage the daily activities and technical outputs of external consulting teams, ensuring their deliverables meet established architectural standards, data governance policies, and sprint commitments.
Scope / (Content Leadership): Leads the design and construction of large-scale data architectures. Oversees our implementation partners, and mentors junior engineers while driving technical excellence and setting standards across the team.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves highly complex data engineering problems and troubleshoots intricate performance issues. Ensures that critical data infrastructure and systems remain highly scalable, secure, resilient, and efficient.
Impact/Strategy: Leads projects that significantly shape the organization’s data infrastructure. Works with Enterprise and Solution Architects to contribute on the long-term strategies for data architecture and contributes to data governance initiatives.
Complexity / (Product Size): Manages enterprise-level data systems and infrastructure. Designs and implements advanced data processing frameworks, scalable data warehouses, and data lakes.
Business / Technical ability: Acts as an expert in multiple programming languages and Big Data technologies. Demonstrates a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud data platforms, advanced ETL/ELT patterns, and data architecture best practices.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Extensive experience leading the design, implementation, and construction of complex data engineering solutions and large-scale data architectures.
Proven track record of leading squads that shape enterprise-level data infrastructure and contribute to long-term data architecture strategies.
Demonstrated experience contributing significantly to data governance and ensuring the resilience and security of critical data infrastructure.
Technical Skills
Proficiency in multiple programming languages and Big Data technologies. (Snowflake, SQL, DBT, Python, Talend, AWS) and version control systems (GITLAB/GITHUB)
Expertise in distributed data systems, cloud data platforms, and advanced ETL/ELT patterns.
Proven capability to architect scalable data warehouses and data lakes, and to troubleshoot intricate system performance issues.
Additional Qualifications
Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to challenge the status quo and propose innovative process improvements..
Excellent capability to guide, direct, and mentor team members and various technical teams.
Strong strategic mindset with the ability to influence cross-functional architectural decisions and drive technical excellence.
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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
- Extensive experience designing and implementing complex data engineering solutions and large-scale data architectures
- Proven track record leading squads that deliver enterprise-level data infrastructure
- Experience contributing to data governance and ensuring resilience and security of data infrastructure
- Proficiency with Snowflake, SQL, DBT, Python, Talend, and AWS
- Experience with version control using GitLab or GitHub
- Expertise in distributed data systems, cloud data platforms, and advanced ETL/ELT patterns
- Ability to architect scalable data warehouses and data lakes and troubleshoot intricate system performance issues
- Strong mentoring, leadership, and stakeholder management 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).
