Solution Architect for Analytics

Roche; Sant Cugat del Vallès; Presencial; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global healthcare company in Sant Cugat del Vallès is seeking a Software Architect for Analytics to lead the design and development of complex software systems. The ideal candidate will have 10-15 years of coding experience, a strong understanding of data pipelines, and proficiency in cloud technologies. You will be responsible for high-level architecture and collaborating with various teams. This role provides an opportunity to influence healthcare analytics and contribute to impactful solutions.

Formación

• 10-15+ years of hands-on coding experience or equivalent.
• Proven expertise in leading and mentoring teams of engineers.
• Strong understanding of data cleaning and ETL processes.

Responsabilidades

• Develop high-level and low-level design components for analytics products.
• Drive software architecture and roadmap for analytics modules.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to meet customer needs.

Conocimientos

Distributed computing principles

Data pipeline architecture

Data Modeling

Capacity Planning

Agile methodologies

AWS Cloud technologies

Proficiency in Python

Experience in mentoring engineering teams

Educación

BS in computer science, engineering, or related

Master's degree (preferred)

Herramientas

Jupyter

MLflow

Kubeflow

Descripción del empleo

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

Role Purpose

The Software Architect for Analytics will be a key team leader applying extensive knowledge of design principles and practices in the creation of complex, enterprise‑scale software systems for analytics. General responsibilities include design concept generation, leading design reviews, development and testing of the product stack. This role is hands‑on and entails leading the architecture and roadmap for the data analytics modules of the data platform. You will also collaborate with the wider Roche digital product community to influence innovative solutions that enable the products to work together to better impact patient outcomes.

Your values align with ours

Customer Empathy, Respect/Earn Trust, Extreme Ownership, Bias for action, Entrepreneurship, Open sharing of information, Data‑driven, Effectiveness, Resiliency, Grit, Radical Candor, Curiosity, Optimism, Disagree yet commit, Collaboration

Responsibilities

Architecture Design and Development

• Develop high‑level and low‑level design components, ensuring scalability, supportability, and extensibility of analytics products.
• Drive software architecture and roadmap, full‑stack product planning, delivery, and support for the data analytics modules of the data platform.
• Define the technology roadmap and stack, engineering best practices such as continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, modular design, and more.

Leadership

• Allocate work effectively, mentor, and guide engineers at various levels including principal engineers.
• Lead the design, development, delivery, and support of the core product software stack using technologies such as Java, Python, SQL and NoSQL databases, and Cloud services.
• Develop and deliver Proof‑of‑Concepts, including identifying technology options and assessments.
• Provide technical leadership for several teams, mentoring and guiding engineers.

Collaboration

• Collaborate with various groups like Product Management, UX, Customer Success, Sales, Security, Compliance, Legal, and more to understand and meet customer needs.
• Communicate with stakeholders including customers to explain solutions and technology, obtain customer insights, and translate them into technical deliverables.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure high quality software that is highly scalable, available, reliable, supportable, and extensible and integrates with other Roche products and platforms.

Your profile

• Educational Background: BS in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience: Proven expertise in leading and mentoring principal software/data engineers and other junior engineers.
• 10/15+ years of hands‑on coding experience (or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of distributed computing principles and data pipeline architecture.
• Extensive experience in architecting and developing large‑scale designs.
• Extensive experience Understanding of key analytics workflows, including data cleaning, ETL (extract‑transform‑load) processes, and processing large‑scale datasets.
• Proficiency in Data Modeling, Capacity Planning, and Engineering best practices such as TDD, CI/CD.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security best practices
• Familiarity with tools used by data scientists (e.g., Jupyter, Python, or R) and machine learning pipelines (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow).
• Expertise in enabling LLMs to work seamlessly with existing healthcare analytics infrastructure (e.g., integration with ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes).
• Solid experience in Agile methodologies for both delivery and operations
• Skilled in AWS Cloud technologies for data and analytics.

Nice to Have

• Master in CS, Engineering (preferred)
• Experience in Healthcare tech, standards, and workflows (e.g., HL7, FHIR)
• Experience with QMS for FDA‑regulated products

Locations

You will be based in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain. At the Company's discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances.

As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending on the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

Leadership Skills

You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective technical leadership for a global team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead the project teams to create transformative solutions, and to influence uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of Data Platform & Insights Services and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision. The Principle Architect is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group.

Roche Operating Principles

• Put patients first
• Follow the science
• Act as one team
• Embrace differences
• Accelerate learning
• Simplify radically
• Make impact now
• Think long term

Equal Opportunity Employer

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.