Data Engineer

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. 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. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

In Roche Informatics, we build on Roches 125-year history as one of the worlds largest biotech companies, globally recognized for providing transformative innovative solutions across major disease areas. We combine human capabilities with cutting-edge technological innovations to do now what our patients need next. Our commitment to our patients needs motivates us to deliver technology that evolves the practice of medicine.

Be part of our inclusive team at Roche Informatics, where were driven by a shared passion for technological novelties and optimal IT solutions.

About The Position
Data Engineer, who will work closely with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams to build structured, high-quality data solutions. The person may be leading technical squads. These solutions will be leveraged across Enterprise , Pharma and Diagnostics solutions to help our teams fulfill our mission: to do now what patients need next.

In this position, you will require hands-on expertise in ETL pipeline development, data engineering. You should also be able to provide direction and guidance to developers, oversee the development and unit testing, as well as document the developed solution. Building strong customer relationships for ongoing business is also a key aspect of this role.

To succeed in this position, you should have experience with Cloud-based Data Solution Architectures, the Software Development Life Cycle (including both Agile and waterfall methodologies), Data Engineering and ETL tools/platforms, and data modeling practices.

Your key responsibilities:

• Building and optimizing data ETL pipelines to support data analytics
• Developing and implementing data integrations with other systems and platforms
• Maintaining documentation for data pipelines and related processes
• Logical and physical modeling of datasets and applications
• Making Roche data assets accessible and findable across the organization
• Explore new ways of building, processing, and analyzing data in order to deliver insights to our business partners
• Continuously refine data quality with testing, tooling and performance evaluation
• Work with business and functional stakeholders to understand data requirements and downstream analytics needs
• Partner with business to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Foster a data-driven culture throughout the team and lead data engineering projects that will have an impact throughout the organization
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems and products; and help to grow our data team with exceptional engineers
  
  

Your qualifications and experience:

• Education in related fields (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematical Engineering, Information Systems) or job experience preferably within multiple Data Engineering technologies
• 4+ years experience with ETL development, data engineering and data quality assurance
• Hands on experience as Data Engineering in Cloud Data Solutions using Snowflake
• Experienced working with Cloud Platform Services (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experienced in ETL/ETL technologies like Talend/DBT or other ETL platforms
• Experience in preparing and reviewing new data flows patterns
• Excellent Python Skills
• Strong RDBMS concepts and SQL development skills
• Strong focus on data pipelines automation
• Exposure in quality assurance and data quality activities are an added advantage.
• DevOps/ DataOps experience (especially Data operations preferred)
• Readiness to work with multiple tech domains and streams
• Passionate about new technologies and experimentation
• Experience with Inmuta and Montecarlo is a plus
• Exposure to AI, GenAI, LLM, Machine Learning is a good to have,
  
  

What you get:

• Good and stable working environment with attractive compensation and rewards package (according to local regulations);
• Annual bonus payment based on performance;
• Access to various internal and external training platforms (e.g. Linkedin Learning);
• Experienced and professional colleagues and workplace that supports innovation;
• Multiple Savings Plans with Employer Match
• Company’s emphasis on employees’ wellness and work-life balance ( (e.g. generous vacation days and OneRoche Wellness Days ),
• Workplace flexibility policy;
• State of art working environment and facilities;
• And many more that the Talent Acquisition Partner will be happy to talk about!
  
  

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.

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