Director of Cloud Engineering

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The Position

Who We Are

A healthier future. That’s what drives us.  And as the world evolves, so do we.  For over 125 years, we have taken on some of the most complex challenges in healthcare. Listening and responding to the ever-changing needs of people around  the world. We focus on the long-term, leading investment in research and development, aspiring to improve lives today and for generations to come.  

We’re advancing science to ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need. Always innovating, we bring together dedicated people and different perspectives from across our global network, empowering each other to  keep breaking new ground. But we can’t do it alone. To succeed we collaborate – with each other,  with our partners, with governments, with patients. 

Proud of what we do, we’re here because we care. Our work creates a future where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us who we are. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Director of Cloud Engineering, internally referred to as Cloud sub-chapter lead, to spearhead our efforts to build the next generation of cloud-based, scalable and highly interoperable remote patient monitoring solutions.

If you are a strong people leader, empathic communicator and tech maniac at the same time, this is for you!

As a people leader you will be responsible to lead and inspire engineering managers as well as to hire, compose and grow multiple high performing software teams.

As a communicator you are able to collaborate with stakeholders inside and outside of the engineering organization working closely with customers to translate user needs into healthcare solutions at scale.

As a technical leader you breathe software engineering excellence. You evangelize architectural patterns, system thinking and a state of the art development lifecycle within your teams.

Experience in the domain of healthcare software is a bonus but most importantly we are looking for a passionate and energetic leader.

Your Responsibilities:

• People Leadership: as a people manager, you’ll be responsible for hiring, growing and motivating engineers on your team, ensuring you recruit and retain top talent. You’ll handle managers as well as senior technical leaders.

• Technology Leadership: You support teams to make educated and reflected technical decisions. You are a well skilled moderator empowering your engineers to take the right turn and reflect on tradeoffs.*
   

• Process Leadership: drive and continuously improve ways of working allow your teams to ship high quality software solutions within a globally distributed organization.

• Business' partnership. Ensure proper collaboration between your  teams and business within a scaled agile organization. You balance technical excellence and team capacities to be a reliable business partner.

• Strategy: You foster the cloud strategy within the patient insights organization in close collaboration with architecture and product management.

Who you are:

[General requirements]

• Have successfully built, deployed, and supported multiple enterprise-scale solutions in a senior leadership role with proven expertise in delivering highly scalable, high-performing, and reliable cloud solutions with enterprise-grade cost optimization, coupled with a track record of leading globally distributed software engineering teams to on-time, on-budget delivery through metrics-driven processes, hands-on development experience, and the ability to quickly learn, evangelize best practices, and craft innovative solutions for complex challenges.

[Technical / Hands-on requirements]

• Proven experience in  designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions on AWS (preferred) and/or any other major cloud provider (e.g. Azure, GCP, etc.) with deep knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for commercial products - ideally in a regulated environment (healthcare preferred)

• Experience with cloud-native architectures, serverless computing, and microservices with expertise in software design patterns and enterprise architecture principles

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). Understanding of containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and working knowledge of APIs, middleware, and ETL pipelines.

• Experience integrating healthcare IT systems (e.g., HL7, FHIR) and knowledge of cyber security practices, e.g. authentication and authorization standards, data security, certificate management. 

[Management & Leadership requirements]

• Strong communication, with the ability to explain complex technical problems to non-technical audiences and the ability to translate customer requirements to technical designs with proven ability to influence executive collaborators and cross-functional enterprise partners with proven ability to hire, develop, and manage engineering teams, including senior-level managers and technical leaders and expertise in performance management and fostering a collaborative team culture with experience in managing timelines, budgets, and competing priorities for large-scale projects

[Education requirements]

• BS degree or equivalent experience in a directly related discipline (CS, Eng, etc.) with 10+ years of software development and leadership experience

Locations

You will be based in Sant Cugat (Spain), Vienna (Austria), Warsaw/Poznan (Poland) or Pune (India)

Leadership Skills

You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective leadership for a global team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead your team to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of the organization and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision.

Both Diagnostics and Diabetes Care Leadership teams use these skills when referring to leadership. Consider bringing them into the job description. 

The director of SW Engineering Cloud is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are: 

• Put patients first

• Follow the science

• Act as one team

• Embrace differences

• Accelerate learning

• Simplify radically

• Make impact now

• Think long term

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.