Custom Software Developer (Lead IT Expert) - RDT Artificial Intelligence

Roche Holding AG; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche Holding AG in Warsaw is seeking a Custom Software Developer (Lead IT Expert) within the RDT Artificial Intelligence group. You will shape developer experience, lead official reference architectures, and mentor engineering communities to enable enterprise-wide AI adoption.

The role emphasizes strategic leadership, hands-on delivery of blueprints, and collaboration with security, quality, and product teams to deliver scalable AI-enabled platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in hands-on software engineering in enterprise environments.
• Proven track record in developer enablement and platform leadership.
• Experience bridging AI platforms with real-world business adoption.
• Degree in CS, SWE, AI, or related field.
• Senior architecture leadership with mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic technical direction for user experience, enablement platforms, and adoption journeys across AI offerings.
• Author production-ready blueprints, starter kits, and unified platform components.
• Lead technical consultancy sessions, evaluate use cases, and guide architecture choices.
• Translate field insights into roadmap inputs for platform engineering.
• Embed security, compliance, and responsible AI guardrails into accelerators.
• Partner with Product, Security, Quality, and Business to foster collaboration and engagement.

Skills

Software engineering

Developer platforms

Technical leadership

AI/ML platforms

Mentoring

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / AI

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

Custom Software Developer (Lead IT Expert) - RDT Artificial Intelligence

Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow's digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we're building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

The AI Platforms Experience team is responsible for orchestrating seamless adoption journeys and optimizing the end-to-end user experience across Roche's AI Tech Offering, including agentic platforms. We focus on bridging the gap between platform capabilities and business impact through user research, an intuitive unified AI interface, production-ready blueprints, and hands-on consultancy services. Working closely with product owners, enterprise architects, security, compliance, and enterprise-wide business and developer communities, our mission is to make underlying AI infrastructure invisible, human-centered, and easy to adopt at scale.

The opportunity

Joining the AI Platforms Experience team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping developer experience and driving the enterprise-wide adoption of our AI offerings. You will drive our platform's experience and lead the delivery of official reference architectures and reusable blueprints. Your role bridges complex underlying AI/ML and agentic technologies with real-world business value - leading technical consultancies, mentoring engineering communities, and establishing high standards for software delivery, quality, and compliance across Roche.

What You'll Do

• Scope & Content Leadership: Set the strategic technical direction for our user experience, enablement platforms, and user adoption journeys for AI offerings across the enterprise.
• Blueprints & Reference Architectures: Author production-ready blueprints, starter kits, and unified platform interface components that abstract infrastructure complexity and accelerate AI solution delivery.
• Technical Consultancies & Enablement: Lead technical consultancy sessions, evaluate complex use cases, guide architecture selection, and mentor engineering and power-user communities.
• Impact & Adoption Strategy: Translate real-world field insights and developer feedback into structured inputs for the core platform engineering roadmap to drive active value creation and adoption.
• Quality, Compliance & Security: Embed responsible AI guardrails, security best practices, and GxP validation compliance into reusable platform accelerators and developer workflows.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Community Evangelism: Partner with cross-functional leaders across Product, Security, Quality, and Business domains to foster collaboration and technical community engagement.
• Developer Community of Practice & Excellence: Drive developer community engagement, establish best practices, standardize software delivery frameworks, and cultivate technical leadership across teams.
• Asset Creation & Modularity: Identify opportunities for modular enablement frameworks and the creation of reusable assets.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Promote the AI Tech Offering (aITO) actively to drive adoption and alignment across enterprise teams.

Who you are:

Education & Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership in developer platforms, enterprise environment, and building reusable software assets.
• Proven track record of driving developer enablement, leading technical consultancies, and bridging complex AI platform technologies with real-world business adoption.
• AI expertise with a proven track record of driving innovation, spearheading the adoption of emerging AI technologies
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
• Demonstrated success in senior architecture roles, cross-functional team leadership, and mentoring engineering talent to elevate