Power Platform Architect
About this opportunity
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
Job description
As a Microsoft Power Platform Architect, you will demonstrate proven expertise in the platform’s foundation and component technologies. You will guide the platform team in making the platform available to the broader enterprise, so that citizen developers and federated application teams can create business value by leveraging the platform. You will effectively translate organizational goals into a robust technical roadmap, guiding the strategic direction for a secure, compliant, and scalable low-code ecosystem. You will create governance frameworks and provide best practices to empower developers. In addition, you will design the automated administration of the platform, leveraging AI, so that tasks like monitoring platform capacity and user licensing do not need to be done manually. You will act as a technical leader for the platform team, while at the same time collaborating with the global architect community and the technical experts responsible for other Microsoft components.
Job Responsibilities
Content Leadership: Treats platform services as internal products with clear documentation, lifecycle management, and stakeholder feedback loops. Designs and documents components of shared technology platforms (e.g., CI/CD, observability, DLP policies) while creating proof of concepts, reference implementations, automation scripts, and platform tooling. Closely follows Microsoft’s Power Platform roadmap and general developments in the low-code, no-code and AI space to identify opportunities and challenges within Roche.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Takes ownership of ambiguous tasks and topics in the "grey zone" and successfully drives small to medium (S/M) initiatives at the platform level. These initiatives may include the implementation of platform level initiatives, such as the deployment of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit or other automations to support platform administrations. Challenges the status quo, skillfully navigates group dynamics, and fosters good collaboration, knowledge sharing, coaching, and mentoring.
Stakeholder Management: Prioritizes and communicates with stakeholders effectively. Leads the platform team to ensure that platform is fit for use, socializes the platform to prospective internal customers, and represents the platform within architect communities. Maintains a bigger picture view informed by Microsoft’s roadmap and general low-code, no-code, and AI trends. Understands how various platform components fit into the overall organizational strategy and goals.
Impact/Strategy: Acts as a technical mentor and aligns development plans with the global strategy. Gives speeches and shares knowledge in internal events (e.g., DevOps Days, Tech Talk, Tech Live) and gets involved in initiatives or tasks reaching outside of the regular project scope.
Complexity: Operates at the platform level with a direct impact on the platform team’s technical decisions and an indirect impact on the decisions of citizen developers, professional developers, and business use case owners. Records decisions in architecture decision records and other formal documentation.
Business / Technical ability: Possesses a deep understanding of the broader technical landscape beyond the specific component being worked on. Formulates and implements technical strategies aligned with organizational objectives, investing time and energy in initiatives that boost automation and innovation while maintaining the highest engineering quality.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and managing Power Platform at a global enterprise scale.
Proven track record of treating platform services as internal products, actively contributing to their lifecycle, governance framework, and operational stability.
Experience evaluating and integrating third-party or cloud-native services while aligning solutions with strict security and architectural standards.
Expertise in implementing Zero Trust principles within the Power Platform, such as leveraging Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access and Managed Environments to secure data and governance.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Technical Skills
In-depth knowledge of Power Apps (Canvas/Model-driven), Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio.
Proficiency in Terraform, Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and automation scripting via PowerShell for Power Platform.
Solid foundational knowledge of Entra ID (Azure AD), Dataverse architecture, and API management.
Strong expertise in platform security (DLP, encryption, access controls), networking (on-premises data gateways), and performance monitoring/observability tools.
Additional Qualifications
Strong collaborative and mentorship skills, with an ability to navigate complex group dynamics and act as a technical mentor to peers.
Experience in a regulated industry.
Experience leading or supporting a community of practice.
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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