Switzerland, Aargau, Kaiseraugst FHLR
Spain, Madrid, Madrid Valcarcel
United States of America, California, South San Francisco
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Your main responsibilities are:
Deliver clear value-driven technology strategies and roadmaps to support our IT Business Partners to proactively respond to digital transformation and disruption.
Provide insights and input for better decision making to help build the capabilities required by our IT Partners and consumers of our services.
Lead and inspire the technology transformation from roadmap to realization by conducting assessments, innovation and prioritizing standards.
Assess technologies and trends in a methodical way to ensure insights based recommendations that fit the Roche environment. Analyze current technology environment to identify deficiencies and recommending solutions, as well as staying abreast of emerging security technologies and trends and apply them where appropriate
Facilitate engagement and foster collaboration with stakeholders and architecture partners to ensure consistency in direction and decision-making.
Create compelling presentations to articulate the technical strategies, architecture and roadmaps to various levels in the organization
Work with Roche Science Infrastructure group to define the strategies and principles that guide technology decisions for the enterprise for scientific computing and analysis
Support Contract and vendor negotiation for external cloud services (hosting and sourcing), including negotiation, relationship management, tracking, troubleshooting and reporting
Consult on technical architecture implementation activities with all stakeholders and Solution Owners to ensure alignment. Oversee and work with Engineering on the evaluation and selection of Cloud related technologies and products.
Identify the organizational, operational sustainability and financial impacts of defined strategies; analyze gaps to create a risk profile for the proposed strategy.
Skills and Experience:
You have a Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience and certified in multiple Cloud areas (desired). Ideally, you have strong business knowledge in the Pharma/Biotech industry and associated processes and you bring the following qualifications:
10 to 15 years of experience in Compute and Cloud infrastructure with medium to large global enterprises with global geographical topologies
Deep expertise in scalable and hybrid compute infrastructure design and delivery (including compute, storage, network), hybrid-cloud infrastructures, Cloud Security, Cloud Management Platforms, Data Protection, automation and orchestration frameworks, service-oriented architecture, network development and monitoring, containers
Practical experience in cloud adoption, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring across public, private and hybrid cloud deployments. Use business knowledge and financial skills to create the business case for cloud deployments, including ROI and efficiency measures
Expert communication and consulting skills; able to build strong relationships with customers, partners, and infrastructure teams.
Strong experience with Application architecture, integration tools and services, open source languages and tools, open standards
Excellent understanding of security and compliance as related to Cloud, especially data protection and governance
Accomplished in framing an enterprise IT architecture, proven to deliver robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive global business objectives
Ability to review proposed solution architectures, identify risks and provide remediation recommendations in line with established standards and overall Cloud strategies
Effectively engage stakeholders at all levels and promote candid communication in the creation of strategies and roadmaps; able to influence and negotiate with business and IT Partners.
Be active and influencing in your area of expertise; able to act fast and make quick decisions while taking smart risks. You enjoy challenges, think in opportunities and solutions, not only in threats.
Constantly looking for innovative ways to do things and opportunities for improvement. Able to live in ambiguity and react positively in constantly changing business environments
Understand the critical importance of diversity and take advantage to build stronger strategies. Be a great collaborator.
Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
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