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At Roche, 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, we believe that good business means a better world.

Roche Diagnostics has built a new strategic area charged with creating a modern portfolio of decision support software products that change the way patients are cared for. Our challenge is to bring-together complex diagnostic and treatment data from medical devices and IT systems within a hospital and intelligently process and present this data to clinicians, researchers, and caregivers to improve research outcomes and patient care.

As part of Data Science & Services (DSS) team at DIS, you are responsible for conceptualizing, planning and executing advanced analytics projects to discover key insights improving NAVIFY product portfolio leading to better and more efficient patient care. The data you will be working with is varied in type including - but not limited to – clinical patient-level data, supplemented with data such as omics, imaging, digital health, etc. You will collaborate with peers within the function and across the organization to develop and improve existing CDS and workflow solutions, improve product support strategies, identify evidence gaps and data sources, design and execute studies, and implement analyses to support improvement of existing products and drive discovery and early development of new features or apps to drive the NAVIFY portfolio. You will also ensure that the design, execution, and presentation of analytical results are adhering to industry standards and potentially improve and redefine current industry standards.

In addition, your key responsibilities will include:

• Drive data science and analytical software development teams. Carry out analytics to support multiple product development projects and find solutions to new quantitative problems


• Maintain and expand knowledge and access to available and meaningful data sources within/outside Roche, and their application to NAVIFY customer needs


• Perform high quality, timely and accurate analyses using most relevant state-of-the-art methodologies, tools and resources


• Stay committed to offering innovation, finding opportunities to improve ways of working (including processes, methods, technology etc.) and sharing new techniques and lessons learned actively with peers


• Use and continue to foster strong working relationships with global colleagues and customers and build a strong network in order to jointly explore vendor relationships, data assets, analytical methodologies and toolsets


• Build and maintain partnerships with other analysts, biostatistics, medical and business leaders, and other key functional guides

Who you are:

• Equipped with hands-on experience in data science and a passion to make a difference in healthcare


• Data savvy, creative thinker and problem solver, eager to learn and expand your scientific expertise


• Reliable phenomenal teammate, strong collaborator with ability to influence and become a thought partner/leader


• Strong solution finding, resiliency and a sense of ownership with effective prioritization skills, attention to detail and accuracy


• Adaptable, embrace and endorse challenges and changes

In order to be successful in this position, you have:

• At least a Master’s Degree in a data science related field (e.g. Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Bioinformatics) required, PhD preferred


• At least 4 years (8 if no PhD) of relevant experience. Industry experience is a big plus


• Background in biology or medicine, either through education or professional experience.  Oncology desired


• Strong programming experience with R, Python, and/or other quantitative software


• Strong experience in applying statistical modelling, machine learning, exploratory, and confirmatory data analysis in mid to large volume biomedical data sets and patient-level data analyses (e.g., real world data, clinical trials, registries, claims, genomic or imaging data)


• Experience with digital product development as well as familiarity with regulatory framework and guidelines for pharma/diagnostics products is a plus for Senior level and a requirement for Principal level


• Experience using High Performance Computing (HPC) environments and big data platforms such as Hadoop or Spark. In-depth knowledge of relational database principles and corresponding query language skills (e.g. SQL) is of interest

Are you ready to apply? We are looking for someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be a rare springboard to many other opportunities at Roche. When applying for this position, already project yourself in the future. Think about what could come next and how you wish to build your future.