Technical Lead - Informatics, Research and Lab Execution at Roche

The Position

This position is for a strong Technical resource who will be part of a development team assisting the Product Team in delivery and operations of products within the Research Labs Product Line. You will be joining a team that is in transition from a traditional waterfall to a product-centric, customer-centric delivery model working to incorporate a DevOps team. You have a strong foundation in Agile methodologies to support the team. In this position you will be part of a Release Train delivering critical products for lab experiment execution to a global customer base within the R&D DIA IT solutions portfolio.

Duties

• Support the local IT Infrastructure (virtual and local servers, NetAPP storage, databases, clients PC, local network, WiFi)
• Provide strong technical leadership for the development and operation of business critical products, and for the cloud operations (AWS)
• Strengthen the communication and collaboration between different IT entities within Roche, the business, and external service providers
• Guide the team in the transition to Agile and product centric approach

You offer the following competencies

Strong communication skills and good presentation

• Experience in collaborating with teams on complex projects or programs, with decisions across multiple areas. Good negotiation skills, fast integration in big teams
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and providing recommendations to senior executives
• Good communicator able to assist, together with business analysts, with the gathering of requirements, identifying gaps and meeting with various customers and partners to design innovative solutions and proposals to fill capability gaps

Hands-on technically sound profile

• Executes technical implementation efforts such as configuration laboratory instrumentation, lab connectivity, developing API integrations, supporting data flow and ingestion, and operational support for the R&D business teams

Strong technical leadership

• Provide technical thought leadership in day-to-day technical activities to support the product line, as well as for highly complex projects as needed. Drive resolution to the most technical and complex problems occurring within the supported systems. Provide mentoring, guidance, and training to other technical team members. Foster technical innovation within the team and leads by example when developing solutions

Collaboration

• Lead activities involving business customers to understand their requirements and ongoing strategy, represent the team and the product line’s business vision to the vendors, coordinate the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our products with vendors, Roche architects, SMEs, dev team members, as well as developing technical solutions and implementing R&D products for meeting the business goals

Agile

• Manage and optimize the flow of product value using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanbans, boards, trackers.
• Provide subject matter expertise, mentoring, guidance, and training and Agile best practices support to team members to lead the transition

For this position, you bring the following qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science/technology, or related field
• Five (5) years of experience with designing/implementing technology solutions for mission critical systems
• Systems integration experience with large complex business environments
• Strong working Linux knowledge, including file system manipulation and performance monitoring, scripting language skills (shell, Perl, sed, awk).
• Strong experience with deployment of AWS cloud and SaaS solutions, solid understanding of cloud-native products and microservices architecture
• Successfully led large-scale software projects (with multiple tracks of work and teams in multiple locations) from concept to delivery.
• Fluent English skills (written and spoken)
• Flexible working across timezones

Desired Experience

• Experience with software development, laboratory information systems
• Healthcare software background within a regulated environment, International teamwork or global functional experience is preferred
• Experience with GxP relevant systems
• Knowledge of Diagnostics business