Solution Architect for Analytics
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Job description
The Software Architect for Analytics will be a key team leader applying extensive knowledge of design principles and practices in the creation of complex, enterprise-scale software systems for analytics. General responsibilities include design concept generation, leading design reviews, development and testing of the product stack. This role is hands-on and entails leading the architecture and roadmap for the data analytics modules of the data platform. You will also collaborate with the wider Roche digital product community to influence innovative solutions that enable the products to work together to better impact patient outcomes.
Your values align with ours:
Customer Empathy, Respect/Earn Trust, Extreme Ownership, Bias for action, Entrepreneurship, Open sharing of information, Data-driven, Effectiveness, Resiliency, Grit, Radical Candor, Curiosity, Optimism, Disagree yet commit, Collaboration
You will be responsible for:
Architecture Design and Development:
- Develop high-level and low-level design components, ensuring scalability, supportability, and extensibility of analytics products.
- Drive software architecture and roadmap, full stack product planning, delivery, and support for the data analytics modules of the data platform.
- Define the technology roadmap and stack, engineering best practices such as continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, modular design, and more.
Leadership:
- Allocate work effectively, mentor, and guide engineers at various levels including principal engineers.
- Lead the design, development, delivery, and support of the core product software stack using technologies such as Java, Python, SQL and NoSQL dastores, and Cloud services.
- Develop and deliver Proof-of-Concepts, including identifying technology options and assessments.
- Provide technical leadership for several teams, mentoring and guiding engineers.
Collaboration:
- Collaborate with various groups like Product Management, UX, Customer Success, Sales, Security, Compliance, Legal, and more to understand and meet customer needs.
- Communicate with stakeholders including customers to explain solutions and technology, obtain customer insights, and translate them into technical deliverables.
Quality Assurance:
- Ensure high quality software that is highly scalable, available, reliable, supportable, and extensible and integrates with other Roche products and platforms.
Requirements
Do you have experience in UX?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Educational Background: BS in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline. Master's degree preferred.
- Experience: Proven expertise in leading and mentoring principal software/data engineers and other junior engineers.
- 10/15+ years of hands-on coding experience (or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of distributed computing principles and data pipeline architecture.
- Extensive experience in architecting and developing large-scale designs.
- Extensive experience Understanding of key analytics workflows, including data cleaning, ETL (extract-transform-load) processes, and processing large-scale datasets.
- Proficiency in Data Modeling, Capacity Planning, and Engineering best practices such as TDD, CI/CD.
- Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security best practices
- Familiarity with tools used by data scientists (e.g., Jupyter, Python, or R) and machine learning pipelines (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow).
- Expertise in enabling LLMs to work seamlessly with existing healthcare analytics infrastructure (e.g., integration with ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes).
- Solid experience in Agile methodologies for both delivery and operations
- Skilled in AWS Cloud technologies for data and analytics
Nice to Have:
- Master in CS, Engineering (preferred)
- Experience in Healthcare tech, standards, and workflows (e.g. HL7, FHIR)
- Experience with QMS for FDA-regulated products