AI Architect - RDT Artificial Intelligence

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private healthcare (LuxMed)

Group life insurance (UNUM)

Multisport card

Stock purchase options

Job summary

Roche seeks a senior AI Architect to own the engineering vision of our enterprise AI platform, bridging advanced agentic workflows with conventional AI and ML systems. You will define standards, oversee multi-cloud and hardware vendor ecosystems, and drive architecture alignment across AI modules, data architectures and security.

Your role leads the technical design, proofs-of-concept, and production implementation for developer enablement tools, pipelines, and safe, cost-efficient AI delivery

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software architecture and engineering experience, with enterprise AI leadership.
• Experience architecting cores middleware, gateways, and back-end systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML platforms, data architectures, and security.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise AI platform taxonomy and multi-cloud hardware vendor landscapes.
• Lead technical standards for AI platform governance, safety, and compliance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate strategy into blueprints.

Education

B.Sc., M.Sc., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

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 AI Architect - RDT Artificial Intelligence

We are seeking a highly experienced AI Architect to take full engineering accountability and strategic ownership of our evolving enterprise AI technology stack. Evolving out of the foundational AI Platform initiative into an embedded enterprise RDT capability, this role serves as the central technical visionary bridging advanced agentic workflows with traditional AI and ML platforms and with core infrastructure. You will architect a secure, robust, and highly scalable enterprise platform ecosystem that enables diverse teams across the company to deploy cutting-edge AI capabilities safely and cost-effectively. As AI Architect you will establish the technical standards for our AI platform taxonomy, manage complex multi-cloud and hardware vendor landscapes, and drive structural alignment across agent frameworks, MLOps, and enterprise data architectures. Your main mission will be to influence our strategic vision and to translate it into blueprints that will bring it into reality.

The Opportunity

1. Enterprise Tech Stack Architecture & Taxonomy Capability-Based Core Design: Architect and evolve the enterprise reference architecture based on logical capabilities and flows, maintaining vendor neutrality and allowing multi-platform setups rather than forcing monolithic alignment. Platform & App Positioning: Govern the enterprise AI taxonomy, clearly demarcating developer platforms (e.g., Galileo, ADP, ML Studio, RAG-as-a-Service) from ready-to-use business applications (e.g., ChatGPT Enterprise, LangSmith). Advanced Technology Integration: Lead the technical design, proof of concepts, and production implementation for core developer enablement modules, including the AI Gateway, PI/PII detection pipelines, and advanced content safety layers.

2. Infrastructure Engineering & Hardware Operationalization AI Factory Software Layer: Take technical ownership of designing, validating, and establishing the POC-ready software framework (orchestration, monitoring, job scheduling, and cost tracking) required to operationalize high-compute hardware environments like the upcoming NVIDIA AI Factory. Hyperscaler Strategy: Architect cloud-native multi-region endpoints across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring optimal workload placement for model serving and training. Multi-Engine Vector Strategy: Define the structural standards for data and context layer integration, utilizing optimal specialized databases (e.g., Qdrant Cloud for long-term memory, PostgreSQL PGVector, MongoDB Atlas) linked natively into agent frameworks. Agentic Strategy: Bring the strategy of a workforce enhanced through AI agents to reality with the right balance between speed and stability to guarantee delivery while ensuring compliance of our platforms and solutions.

3. Traceability, Governance & Security E2E Traceability Framework: Enforce enterprise invocation standards utilizing strict Correlation IDs (business journey mapping), Trace IDs (independent agent execution), and Span IDs (sub-flows or tool calls) across the AI Gateway. Agent Governance Architecture: Author and execute the technical pre-deployment sign-offs, agent identity propagation, and lifecycle control mechanisms for autonomous, semi-autonomous, and vendor-embedded agents. Risk & Compliance Liaison: Partner closely with the AI Risks & Ethics team to implement auditable intake processes (via ServiceNow and AI Registry) and ensure compliance with security and privacy frameworks.

4. Technical Leadership & Ecosystem Management AI Architecture Network: Serve as a foundational leader on the newly established formal AI Architecture Network, chairing capability reviews, architecture discussions, and exception boards. Act as a technical reference for the rest of architects in the Network. Vendor Roadmap Alignment: Provide strict technical validation for high-stakes platform partners (e.g., AWS, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, Portkey, LangSmith, n8n), ensuring license optimization and data residency compliance at a global scale.

Who You Are

Experience 7+ years of comprehensive experience in software architecture and engineering, with a dedicated 3+ years leading enterprise-scale AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI platform initiatives. Demonstrated experience architecting core middleware, gateways, and backend systems handling complex data routing, access control, and observability protocols at scale. Track record of building high-performance technical environments within regulated structures (such as Biotech, Pharma, or Healthcare Technologies).

Domain Expertise

AI/ML Engine Design: Deep understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and traditional ML model lifecycle architectures.

Cloud & Platform Infrastructure

Advanced expertise in cloud-native paradigms, container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and hardware orchestration frameworks (e.g., NVIDIA stack).

Data Architecture

Strong proficiency across vector similarity search engines (e.g., Qdrant, AWS OpenSearch), cloud data warehouses (Snowflake), and event-driven data pipeline architectures.

Engineering Standards

Advanced Python capability combined with enterprise DevOps mastery, including robust CI/CD, containerized malware monitoring (e.g., GuardDuty), and API security.

Leadership & Mindset

Executive Presence & Collaboration: Proven ability to present technical strategies to senior leadership, influence cross-functional investments, and seamlessly navigate matrixed organizational environments. VACC Leadership Principles: Ability to work cleanly under a Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach approach, empowering technical teams to execute autonomously.

Education

B.Sc., M.Sc., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a highly quantitative field.

Languages

C1+ English language proficiency.

What You'll Get

Competitive salary range 23,300 - 43,300 gross based on the employment contract. Annual bonus payment based on your performance (target 20%).

• Car or Car Allowance.
• Hybrid Work Model: 2 days per week in office (Poznań or Warsaw)
• Comprehensive benefits: Private healthcare (LuxMed), group life insurance (UNUM), Multisport card
• Generous leave programs: Recharge Fridays (2 extra Fridays off per quarter), Take Time Program (up to 3 months), Take Time for Charity (up to 2 weeks)
• Global work options: Flex Location for extended periods anywhere in the world
• Additional perks: Stock share purchase options, company equipment sales, and more!

Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 280,000.00 PLN - 520,000.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to both individual and company performance. This position also offers an attractive benefits package. Learn more about how we reward our employees at Roche.

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.

Data Protection

The controller of your personal data is Roche Polska Sp. z o.o., ul. Domaniewska 28, 02-672 Warsaw. The data is processed for the purpose of recruitment. You have the right to access your data, rectify it, delete it, limit processing, transfer it and - if processing is based on your consent - withdraw this consent at any time. Contact the Data Protection Officer at: [e-mail]. More information on the principles of processing your personal data by Roche at the link: https://www.roche.pl/pl/content/klauzula-informacyjna-rekrutacja-en.html

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