Solution Architect - DIA R&D
Roche · Warsaw, Masovian ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Architecture
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- PLN 228,900 – 425,100 / year
Designs scalable, secure IT solutions for Roche’s R&D labs, translating business needs into standards-based architectures and guiding teams on tech adoption and governance.
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The Position
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.
The Solution Architect focuses on designing business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready solutions within a specific solution context. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, translating complex technical concepts into successful solutions addressing problems across R&D laboratories. Your responsibilities will span the entire solution lifecycle, from design to implementation, ensuring solutions meet high-performance standards and security requirements. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of enterprise IT landscapes, driving digital transformation and operational efficiency for organizations across various industries.
The Opportunity
Scope / (Content Leadership): Designs solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards within a specific Solution Context. Manages Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and fitness functions. Documents and evolves the architecture throughout the product life cycle and aligns with the architecture community for governance.
Solution Design: Architect scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions tailored to business needs.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves complex problems by taking a new perspective on existing solutions and exercising judgment based on the analysis of multiple information sources. Maintains the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for the solution. Assesses and consults on the impacts and dependencies of initiatives on capabilities, risk, and the application landscape. Creates Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for the solution and its interfaces. Defines and drives reference architectures, patterns, and ensures Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are appropriately recorded.
Stakeholder Management: Explains difficult or sensitive information clearly and actively works to build consensus among stakeholders. Drives information sharing and exchange about the solution.
Impact/Strategy: Understand technical opportunities to improve business value. Provides technical oversight, guidance, and consultation on specific technologies for product teams. Improves existing solutions, manages technical debt, and researches, evaluates, pilots, and drives the adoption of new technologies. Identifies opportunities to enhance value.
Who you are
Education / Experience
Demonstrated experience designing business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a specific solution context.
Experience maintaining the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions, and assessing the impacts of initiatives on risk and application landscapes.
Hands on experience in creating PoCs
Previous experience collaborating with R&D users preferred
Technical Skills
Modern architecture practices, including effective use of non functional requirements and architecture decision records
Proficiency in creating Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for solutions and interfaces.
Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions.
Strong capability to drive external technology trends and assess feasibility for the solution, including conducting vendor assessments.
Additional Qualifications
Solid collaboration and influencing skills with a proven ability to lead and inspire
Strong analytical, logical problem-resolution skills
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and successfully build consensus.
Proactive mindset to identify opportunities to enhance value and business processes, improve existing solutions, and manage technical debt.
What you get
- Salary range 19 075-35 425 PLN gross based on the employment contract.
- Annual bonus payment based on your performance.
- Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).
- Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).
- Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
- Vacation subsidy available.
- Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
- Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
- Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
- Stock share purchase additions.
- Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!
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Compensation & Benefits
The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 228’900.00 PLN - 425’100.00 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.