Solution Architect - ERP D2P Data & Analytics

Role overview

Solution Architect - ERP D2P Data & Analytics at Roche

The Position

Responsibilities

• You will develop and maintain the product's technology roadmap, provide technical oversight to product teams, and evaluate new technologies to continuously improve existing solutions and manage technical debt.
• Design how D2P data is collected, integrated, and consumed
• Implement Decentralized, or Hybrid models
• Support business team in data governance (data risk, data privacy, retention policy, anonymization obligation, etc.)
• Support Data Mesh based data Management framework.
• Design scalable AI data & analytics solutions across structured/unstructured data, including NLP pipelines, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, Generative AI, and Agentic AI systems
• Build cloud-native (AWS/Azure) AI pipelines and integrate seamlessly with enterprise APIs and external systems

Required qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline is required.
• Professional certifications such as TOGAF Practitioner, CDMP (Associate), or Zachman Associate are considered a plus.
• Education / Experience
• 5+ years of experience in Data Architecture, or a similar role, with a proven track record of architecting and designing enterprise grade analytical and AI products
• 2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry
• 1+ years of experience in AI Architecture and emerging technology.
• Experience maintaining the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions, and assessing the impacts of initiatives on risk and application landscapes .

Required skills

• in-depth knowledge in Snowflake (mandatory), DBT, Talend, Cortex AI, NLP pipelines, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, Generative AI, and Agentic AI systems
• 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 Qualities
• 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.
• 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.

Employment details

• Establish platform strategy (cloud / on-prem / hybrid)
• Location: Pune [India]

Application details

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About the employer

• At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.

Benefits

• This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.

Additional role details

• Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
• Join Roche, where every voice matters.
• The Solution Architect focuses on designing business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready solutions within a specific solution context.
• In this role, you will design a scalable, business-aligned data architecture for ERP Demand-to-Pay (D2P) analytics that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards while managing non-functional requirements (NFRs) and fitness functions.
• Description of the area
• The Demand to Pay (D2P) Data & Analytics area is responsible for driving the end-to-end Procurement, Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense Management Data & AI strategies, by translating Functional strategies into measurable business outcomes.
• This includes supporting data product management and providing comprehensive analytics for our key stakeholders - Global Procurement, Diagnostics Direct Procurement and RSS Operations.
• This work is based on the foundation of the Roche Group Data & AI strategies leveraging various global platforms.
• Job Responsibilities
• Define End-to-End Data Solution Architecture
• Own Data Platforms & Components
• Architect data pipelines, DataProducts, and catalogs
• Define ownership, governance, and lifecycle management
• Drive Architecture Strategy
• Balance consistency, scalability, and domain ownership
• Establish reusable patterns for data integration, sharing, and governance
• Support Information Architecture:
• Support other data domains in connecting D2P to other domains (Both ways, reused and sharing)
• Lead Data Modeling
• Define Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data models and semantic layer for AI
• Align business processes (Demand → Procurement → Payment) with data structures
• Enable Analytics & AI