Data & Insights Enablement - Senior Analyst

1312 Roche Services and Solutions (India) Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche India – Roche Services & Solutions in Hyderabad/Chennai is seeking a Senior Analyst for Data Governance Product Management. You will own the technical product roadmap for enterprise governance assets, elicit business requirements, and translate them into PRDs and data mappings.

Lead the data catalog efforts (Collibra) and collaborate with US partners to shape data strategy and governance across global platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance or product management.
• Expert SQL for data querying, profiling, lineage, and validation.
• Experience with Collibra or similar data catalog platforms.
• Ability to translate business rules into technical specifications and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation and define governance product capabilities.
• Document PRDs, SSTMs, data dictionaries, and diagrams.
• Manage feature prioritization and agile delivery.
• Oversee data catalog adoption and metadata management (Collibra).
• Map end-to-end data lineage across source systems and data lakes.
• Collaborate with US stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python scripting

Data governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Structured thinking

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/IS/Analytics

Tools

Collibra

Confluence

Jira

Job description

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.

The Position Data & Insights Enablement - Senior Analyst (Data Governance Product Management) Roche India - Roche Services & Solutions Hyderabad / Chennai A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche. Roche has established Global Analytics and Technology Center of Excellence (GATE) to drive analytics & technology driven solutions by partnering with Roche affiliates across the globe.

The Opportunity:

The Senior Analyst – Data Governance Product Management acts as a Technical Product Manager and Senior Data Business Analyst bridging business stakeholders, data governance leads, and data engineering teams. In this role, you will take ownership of defining, documenting, and executing the technical product roadmap for enterprise data governance assets and platforms. You will lead business-facing requirements elicitation, maintain enterprise data catalogs (e.g., Collibra), and translate complex pharmaceutical business rules into structured technical specifications, source-to-target mappings, and data quality validation logic. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build deep expertise in the external healthcare data ecosystem and contribute to decisions that shape how Roche uses data to support commercial and strategic business needs in the U.S. market. You will work closely with U.S. stakeholders, external data vendors, and cross-functional Roche teams. The role provides a strong platform to develop skills in data strategy, vendor evaluation, stakeholder consultation, business problem-solving, and structured communication.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Management & Technical Requirements Elicitation

   • Requirements Gathering: Lead discovery and elicitation sessions with business stakeholders, data owners, and technical teams to define data governance product capabilities, workflows, and integrations
   • Technical Documentation: Author detailed Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), Source-to-Target Mappings (SSTMs), user stories, data dictionary definitions, and architecture flowcharts using Confluence and Jira
   • Product Backlog & Delivery: Manage feature prioritization, sprint backlogs, acceptance criteria, and user acceptance testing (UAT) in an Agile data product delivery environment

2. Data Catalog & Governance Platform Management

   • Catalog Administration & Adoption: Drive enterprise-wide adoption, configuration, and maintenance of Data Catalog platforms (e.g., Collibra), ensuring comprehensive business glossaries, asset definitions, and critical data elements (CDEs)
   • Metadata & Lineage: Map end-to-end data lineage, relationships, and metadata attributes across source transactional systems, data lakes, and downstream analytics marts
   • Governance Frameworks: Partner with governance leads to establish data classification, taxonomy standards, schema validation, and access policies

3. Domain Data Governance & Stewardship Enablement

   • Pharma Domain Alignment: Act as the technical governance liaison for core pharmaceutical data domains, including Sales, Prescription/Claims, Healthcare Professionals (HCP), Healthcare Organizations (HCO), and Payer/Market Access datasets
   • Data Harmonization: Guide cross-functional teams on standardizing master data attributes and cross-referencing domain-specific data definitions across global and regional commercial platforms

4. Data Quality Specification & Rule Design

   • Rule Translation: Translate functional business requirements and governance policies into explicit Data Quality (DQ) validation criteria and SQL-based logic
   • Quality Framework Support: Define thresholds and metrics for data completeness, accuracy, consistency, integrity, and freshness to support automated data quality pipelines

5. Business Interfacing & Stakeholder Collaboration

   • Stakeholder Facilitation: Serve as the primary point of contact for US commercial and analytics business users, conducting working sessions and resolving requirements ambiguities
   • Time Zone Alignment: Maintain daily working hours overlap with North American business partners operating on US Pacific Standard Time (PST)

Who you are:

You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Management, Engineering, or a related discipline and 5+ years of experience. Advanced SQL Proficiency: Expert-level SQL capabilities for complex data querying, data profiling, lineage tracing, and data validation across relational and distributed data warehouse environments. (Python scripting experience is preferred but not mandatory). Technical & Data Requirements Elicitation : Proven track record interfacing directly with business teams to elicit, structure, and document technical data requirements (PRDs, SSTMs, data flow diagrams, Confluence/Jira documentation). Data Catalog Platforms: Hands‑on operational experience with enterprise Data Catalog solutions, with a strong preference for Collibra (or equivalent enterprise catalog platforms such as Alation). Pharmaceutical Commercial Data Domains: Working knowledge of life sciences and pharma commercial data structures, including Sales, Claims/Prescription, HCP, and HCO data domains. Data Quality & Rule Definition: Practical experience translating complex business requirements into verifiable Data Quality rules and SQL validation logic (preferred; high-level requirements and advanced SQL depth satisfy the core requirement). Structured Thinking & Organization: Exceptional ability to distill complex, ambiguous business problems into structured, methodical, and well-organized documentation. Interpersonal & Verbal Communication: Clear, articulate verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to comfortably interact with director-level business stakeholders and software engineers. Schedule Alignment: Willingness and availability to align working hours overlapping with US Pacific Standard Time (PST) first half to ensure real-time collaboration with cross‑functional teams. Note: Work Hours: Flexible with required core overlap with US Pacific Standard Time (PST).

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. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.