Principal Advanced Analytics Architect, Personalized Healthcare IT (PHC-IT)
South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

The power of data at scale has transformed almost every industry, personalizing experiences in many aspects of our lives. Yet in healthcare we've only scratched the surface. At Genentech and Roche we are accelerating the use of data insights and digital technologies to make significant strides to reach the full potential of personalized healthcare. We are seeking mission-driven, ardent, self-starting, creative individuals to join us in this effort.

The Principal Advanced Analytics Architect will work closely with key stakeholders in the PHC Center of Excellence and serve as trusted IT strategist to coordinate advanced analytics technology strategy with the PHC COE strategy and portfolio. Responsible for driving the development of an IT strategic plan and works with senior stakeholders to identify technologies which enables the business to achieve its PHC 2.0 vision and strategy. The goals is to architect the PHC Advanced Analytics Platform for Roche/Genentech's current and future PHC needs. The PHC Advanced Analytics Platform will provide data science users the capability to analyze large scale Global Scientific Datasets including Omics, Imaging, Digital and EHR modalities. The Principal Advanced Analytics Architect Provides the business stakeholders a window to key innovative technology trends and evolution of technology within the healthcare industry, which has the potential to accelerate the fulfillment of the strategic vision. Through use of dashboards and governance boards, provides continuing communication to provide the business an overview of the progress of current IT innovation(s).

We expect the Principal Advanced Analytics Architect to be a passionate business and product advocate within IT, with proven analytical capabilities. The Principal Advanced Analytics Architect must be an effective negotiator, leader and communicator in working with Roche/Genentech's multiple business units as well as with internal IT cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a passion for transforming healthcare, a high level of flexibility, and commitment. The Principal Advanced Analytics Architect will join our diverse community of smart, fun, wholehearted, and engaged informatics professionals from various functional areas. This person will share our community values of passion, courage, integrity, and gratitude -- all in service of our mission, "doing now what patients need next."

Responsibilities:

As Principal Advanced Analytics Architect on the PHC Pharma IT/Technology team, you will:

* Partner closely with key stakeholders from PHC Center of Excellence, Research and Early Development teams (REDs), Product Development (PD) and Commercial business groups, and corresponding Pharma IT Groups and Global Infrastructure and Solutions (GIS)


* Influence senior leaders across Roche and communicate PHC IT/Technology vision, strategy, goals, status, and impact


* Develops the technology strategy, architecture, and detailed executable designs critical investment plan in strategic technologies.


* Ensures that the technology architecture and technical strategies remain current with the business goals, and directs the development of architecture activities and projects, while aligning with current and long-term business and technology goals.


* Promotes best practices to support scalability, skills transfer and organizational change management across the enterprise and architecture community.


* Highlights short-term trade-offs vs long-term commitments and where those are worth implementing or not. Ensures that the Solutions are scalable (technology), efficient (process), effective (cost), and supportable


* Mentor technical leads/software engineers to enable the individuals and the organization to develop a scalable and stable solution landscape


* Have a broad knowledge and leverage the technical capabilities of the internal teams and external technology providers and vendors.


* Conduct market assessments and to identify new capabilities for existing and future business needs.


* Collaborate with other Strategy and Architecture groups across Roche



Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or related field; Master/PHD in Business, Mathematics, Science, or Computer Science preferred


* Overall 10+ years experience in Delivery and/or Analytics Architecture and/or Engineering, of which at least 5-10 years as an Advanced Analytics Architect.


* Strong Experience in designing and implementing multi-cloud Advanced Analytics Applications using multiple type of tools e.g. R, R Studio, Python, Deep Machine Learning Frameworks, TensorFlow, Keras, etc;


* 3+ years of experience in leading implementation of Advanced Analytics and Data Science platform is required


* Define and develop technical requirements and design specifications for the core platform enhancements and analytics solution starters


* Experience with NoSQL databases and tools i.e. Spark, Hadoop and Hive ecosystem and supporting tools i.e. Tableau and Qlickview etc.


* Strong hands-on experience with at least two of the public Cloud providers(AWS, GCP and Azure), different ML services and tools i.e. Sagemaker, AutoML, containers and lambda functions.


* Strong awareness and market knowledge of Advance Analytics & Data Science Services, platforms and tools e.g. datascience.com, h2o.ai, Nvidia DGX and NGC Cloud, HPC landscape, container orchestration etc.


* Hands-on knowledge of Machine Learning algorithms, model training and production deployments


* Experience in application development, RESTful APIs, Agile development, Full-stack web development, creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines..


* Experience in designing and implementing enterprise scale EMR/EHR systems, Omics/Imaging/Digital systems, HL7/FHIR data standards, HIPAA, ISO, GDPR and other healthcare compliance/regulatory requirements preferred.


* Proven ability to upwardly influence the strategic direction of business solutions


* Ability to work in environment of competing and alternating priorities with constant focus on delivery


* Proven ability to relate and adapt vision and strategy to the external environment that affects the organization in terms of economic climate, customer market demand, regulation and other legalities, geography, culture, technology


* Excellent communication (written and oral) and presentation skills; solid business acumen; well-honed influencing skills are essential.


* Self-motivated and team-oriented; able to work both autonomously and effectively as part of a geographically dispersed team


* Ability to travel up to 25% time



Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

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