Enterprise Architect

The Position

Mission

You are joining a dynamic Enterprise Architecture environment - including an ongoing transformation and you are going to have the opportunity to shape and elevate your contribution to the organisation and ultimately to the customer and patient.

Join our team and bring our purpose to life by unlocking greatness in all our people and organisation and embrace the unique power of each person to transform the lives of patients and society. Collaborate with senior leadership and sustainability teams to understand and align the organisation's sustainability goals with enterprise architecture. Engage with key stakeholders across different business functions, including procurement, compliance, waste management, manufacturing, and others, to assess their sustainability needs and requirements.

In your role you will become a member of the Architecture Chapter. The Architecture Chapter provides the capabilities required to plan and develop Informatics solutions and build roadmaps and strategies to set the direction for the future.

As an Enterprise Architect you will partner with relevant stakeholders in business and foundational domains, product lines, product management and lean portfolio management, and provide the expertise needed to bring together the different requirements and dimensions needed to support the development of the current and future direction; translating the overall business strategy(s) into an informatics strategic direction.

Additionally you will bring an understanding of the external market, drive the research and examination of new technologies to innovate and evaluate the next generation of fit-for-purpose solutions.

Primary Responsibilities 

As Enterprise Architect you will: 

Play a key role in the strategic planning on domain, product line and product level by establishing a technology and information strategy and roadmap that enables a portfolio to support current and future business capabilities connecting the business and IT strategy

You are a Lean Portfolio Governance member and provide inputs to portfolio prioritisation decisions

You drive the design, engineering, reuse of applications or patterns, which includes the creation of Enabler Epics for the architectures that comprise the solutions in a portfolio; ensuring a continuous flow of value and improving the time to market 

You have a focus on reusable technology and information to maintain the architectural runway leveraging a composable architecture creating reliable easy to compose and consume components) 

You drive the continuous improvement of the quality of products within your domain by applying Quality Attributes (NFRs) on relevant levels (portfolio, product lines and products)

You drive the research and examination of new technologies including the feasibility assessment that provide insights on the scalability and cross domain usage

You support the development of lean business cases and monitor the domain, product line and products for new demands; specifically with a focus on skills and capabilities that the chapter needs to provide next

You put a strong focus on the enabling the flow and access on information and manage the information security in the domain, product line and products you are supporting in order to optimise the information and data sharing across the enterprise

You follow a lean-agile governance approach in support of agile teams, enabling decentralised decision making to balance between intentional architecture and emergent design, promoting architecture practices such as recording architectural decisions and architectural assessments.

You manage the evolution of the domain IT Landscape and ensure it enables the business document and maintain the current and future / desired IT landscape in collaboration with solution architects of the domain, product line, products you are supporting

You guide and coach implementation teams and solution architects on the technical architecture implementation activities, particularly for new and/or shared solutions

You continuously collaborate across and among all architecture groups (chapter & catalyst) and product teams to adjust and evolve architecture guardrails (including architecture principles, reference models; patterns, decision frameworks), architecture practices and metrics enabling flow and business outcome).

You perform the leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required to ensure that information systems are designed and evolve appropriately

You develop and maintain a comprehensive enterprise architecture framework that integrates sustainability principles into all aspects of the organisation, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

You identify and recommend sustainable technology solutions that enhance operations and contribute to Roche’s sustainability goals

Required Knowledge and Skills

Academic requirement

Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

A certification or detailed knowledge of the TOGAF architecture framework or comparable architecture methodologies is a plus

A certification or detailed knowledge of the SAFe framework or comparable agile delivery methodologies is a plus such as the Open Agile Architecture standard

A certification or detailed knowledge in the area of Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is a plus

Experience

7+ years hands-on experience in architecting/implementing software solutions

3+ years of experience of managing architecture on portfolio level

Ability to build/create proof of concept/pilot applications to showcase platform functionality to business partners/stakeholders.

Strong understanding of sustainability principles and practices.

Familiarity with sustainability frameworks, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ISO 14001.

Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Knowledge of relevant sustainability-related technologies and trends.

Experience in aligning cross-domain information concepts into insights, complying to sustainability reporting requirements

Key competencies/skills

You exhibit a Lean-Agile mindset, enough instead of perfection

Focus on “Reuse before Buy before Make” when providing direction on future solutions. The best solution may not need significant software development

Actively seeks for existing reusable building blocks that will shorten the design and increase the speed of delivery.

You have a strong passion to bring value-adding technology to the business. 

You have a strong understanding, embraces and actively acts in the VACC roles depending on the situation given 

You have the ability to apply systems thinking and consider both dimensions: within and across portfolios (domains)

You exhibit strong soft skills typically required as an Architect presentation and public speaking, negotiation, challenging the status quo, explaining complex matters in a simple way)

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.