About the Role
Lead Data Solutions Architect — 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.
At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.
This role is embedded within our core Diagnostics division, where we bridge scientific curiosity with technical excellence to build a decentralized, enterprise-wide data ecosystem. As a technical cornerstone, you will act as the bridge between global technology and local business, working side-by-side with Data Domain Leads and Product Owners to transform raw data into trustworthy data products.
Responsibilities
•Architectural Leadership: Drive the overarching design of Data Mesh architectures and integrated data solutions from source identification to the final data product, ensuring full lifecycle alignment with business needs.
•Data Product Delivery & Governance: Lead the definition and implementation of reusable, discoverable, and well-governed Data Products while ensuring strict compliance with access management, data classification, audit traceability, and regulatory standards (e.g., GxP, GDPR).
•Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner dynamically with Data Domain Leads, Sub-Domain Leads, and Data Product Owners to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable data architecture proposals.
•Team Leadership & Technical Mentorship: Direct and mentor a dedicated delivery team of external data engineers, elevating technical standards and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
•Technology & Pipeline Optimization: Innovate and optimize domain data processes, focusing on pipeline design and enterprise data modeling strategies to meet system and user requirements.
•Modern Data Stack Execution: Oversee end-to-end data pipeline buildout and cloud performance optimization using Python, dbt, GitLab CI/CD, Talend, and API consumption.
Requirements
•Data Architecture & Mesh Mastery (Required): Proven track record of designing and implementing Data Mesh architectures, managing cloud platforms like Snowflake (AWS is an advantage), and managing Data Products in complex enterprise environments.
•Advanced Data Modeling & Ingestion (Required): Deep hands-on experience designing scalable enterprise data models utilizing Data Vault 2.0 methodology and dimensional modeling, paired with expertise in Python, dbt, GitLab CI/CD, Talend, and API ingestion.
•Data Quality & Observability Focus (Required): Extensive experience applying data quality standards across entire data pipelines, with strong familiarity with observability principles to ensure system health.
•Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory (Required): Ability to act as a courageous, trusted advisor to business stakeholders, navigating complex data conversations with clarity and data-driven insights.
•Technical Leadership (Required): Demonstrated ability to guide, influence, and elevate the technical standards of data engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
Conditions & Benefits
•Salary range: 19,075.00 – 35,425.00 PLN gross / month (equivalent to 228,900.00 – 425,100.00 PLN gross / year), based on the employment contract (UoP).
•Annual bonus target: up to 20% payment based on your performance and company targets.
•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 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.
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 skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
