Platform Data Engineer

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

In Roche’s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED ), we make transformative medicines for patients in order to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs. At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicines. Together, we create a culture defined by curiosity, responsibility and humility, where our talented people are empowered and inspired to bring forward extraordinary life-changing innovation at speed.

360 Labs Initiative at a Glance

The 360 Labs are a new capability that is currently being built up within the Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED ). The primary mission of this effort is to provide greater access and support for the use of cutting-edge biomedical research technologies by scientists across our discovery portfolio.

The 360 Labs will deliver core scientific technologies, expertise and enabling activities, as well as facilitate knowledge sharing in close collaboration with our therapeutic areas and functions. Our ambition is to bring to life a thriving workplace environment, where your collaborative mindset is as valued as your professional expertise. Our goal is to act as a highly integrated ecosystem, supporting research and development, working collaboratively, and focused on fostering excellence and sustainability. Together, these efforts will serve to increase the speed, enhance the robustness and improve the sustainability of our exploratory research and early discovery activities.

Job Mission and Impact

The 360 Labs Initiative is seeking a Platform Data Engineer. You will have a strong background in life sciences and data engineering, specifically in the domain of building and integrating with data APIs as part of a larger data landscape. You will be the central engineer tasked with implementing key components of the 360 Labs data strategy. You will operate as a part of a matrix team and serve as a key thought and implementation partner to the Data Management Matrix Lead in the 360 Labs, collaborating closely with each of the 360 Labs Technology Platforms, as well as key stakeholders from our Therapeutic Areas and Global Functions to build and maintain a solid data foundation upon which all of 360 Labs will operate.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• You serve as a key contributor to the 360 Labs Initiative, delivering tools to orchestrate the scientific request lifecycle across 360 Labs, focussing on organizing disparate APIs and data into a coherent data flow.

• You will own the 360 Labs internal data model as well as taking responsibility for the logic around metadata validation and mapping to various partner systems (eg. LIMS, queuing systems, web front ends). Experience with spatial data modalities is a strong plus.

• You promote a healthy engineering culture in 360 Labs, ensuring a progressive approach to software and data engineering, including a preference for “Everything as Code”, SCM, CI/CD, and systematic testing strategies.

Your Profile

• You have a MS degree in Computer Science with at least 10 years of combined professional experience in software & data engineering, a significant portion of which should be in early drug discovery & development environments within the pharmaceutical industry, including a track record of delivering well engineered solutions.

• You have excellent data engineering skills with experience in document and relational models, data pipelines, and object stores (S3).

• You are detail-oriented, possess a methodical approach to organizing your work and have a preference for small, frequent releases.

In addition to your professional expertise and critical technical skills we are looking for candidates who:

• Are resourceful and flexible in problem solving, have excellent organizational skills, and are able to work as agile matrix leads with a sense of urgency in a fair, open and collaborative manner, ensuring that everyone has the required information at all times;

• Can think outside the box and work in diverse, multicultural, global teams, with a demonstrated ability to implement new ideas in fast-paced research environments

• Bring excellent written communication and presentation skills with a high fluency in English.

Your Location

This position is based in Basel.

Our commitment

Roche commits to recognizing talent and aptitude. We prioritize encouraging and supporting our employees on their personal journeys by providing a safe, creative space to help them reflect, make decisions and grow in their career.

We are confident that we find the most innovative solutions by gaining different perspectives, asking and answering hard questions, and challenging the status quo. Roche embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious yet enthusiastic way; we are devoted to building a team that represents a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.