Position

As a Business Architect, you will define and maintain the architectural vision and strategy for the Roche organization, ensuring alignment with business goals and supporting the adoption and implementation of Roche’s Reference Architecture. Acting as the authority and guardian of the Reference Architecture, you will create comprehensive solutions, promote best practices, and ensure architecture components and building blocks are reusable, scalable, and align with established standards. Through collaboration across the organization, you will lead efforts to integrate applications and systems effectively, drive innovation, and uphold the architectural integrity of Roche's customer‑facing products.

Furthermore, you will play a key role in advancing Roche’s common platform strategy by contributing to its scalability, reliability, interoperability, and alignment with the needs of digital medical products and engineering teams. Responsibilities

Architectural Guardianship: Define and maintain the Architecture roadmap and Reference Architecture, ensuring all solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with the Roche Ecosystem strategy. Strategy & Integration: Lead the delivery of actionable technology strategies and blueprints, guiding the integration of applications using standard building blocks and reusable components.

Platform Leadership: Drive "platform-first" approaches, identifying technical gaps and developing innovative solutions for data interoperability and event‑driven frameworks.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Engineers, Product Managers, and Sales/Medical teams to support strategic outcomes and ensure consistent technological implementation across customer‑facing products. Quality & Risk Management: Analyze non‑functional requirements (security, performance, scalability) and establish governance to reduce duplication and improve system robustness. Qualifications

Education & Experience:





A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, with at least 10+ years of experience in business/reference architecture and shared platform strategies. Technical Expertise:

Deep knowledge of platform strategies, architectural governance, APIs, and shared services models. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and frameworks like TOGAF or SAFe is highly valued. Sector Knowledge:

Familiarity with healthcare standards such as FHIR and HL7, along with expertise in compliance‑based design and industry regulations. Soft Skills:

Advanced consulting and communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate in cross‑functional, general environments and translate business goals into technical roadmaps.

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives.

We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all.

We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.

📌 Business Architect – Platform Strategy and Transformation (Madrid)
🏢 F. Hoffmann-La Roche
📍 Madrid