Team Lead Engineering Platform Foundations

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The Position

Team Lead Engineering Platform Foundations

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

As an Engineering Manager you will focus on capabilities development of your team members that align with the function’s vision. You will encourage your team to self-define their career journey and seek ways to enable development opportunities in the direction of the journey. You will support them in removing roadblocks and by setting focus in their performance management. You make sure to develop your team with the right skills, healthy dynamics and a sustainable pace. You support the software and/or service delivery as a leader setting focus, removing impediments, managing stakeholders and creating efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible.

Description of the area

The Engineering Excellence & Experience (E3) organization builds the robust engineering bedrock that powers the future of medicine. We deliver foundational application lifecycle platforms, core developer platforms and AI tools required to build software seamlessly. By embedding application security and testing solutions directly into the engineering workflow, democratizing software delivery via low-code tools for non-technical creators, and surfacing data-driven insights, E3 accelerates secure, high-quality software delivery enterprise-wide.

As part of the E3 organization, the Developer Platform team champions the provisioning of foundational, AI-enhanced tools and capabilities that empower developers across Roche. The Platform Foundations team, which is part of the Developer platform area, will offer solutions as per Roche enterprise standard in 3 main areas - Source Code Management, Artifact Management, and CI/CD Solutions.

The team will provide a range of continuously evolving platforms fit for emerging technical complexities and accelerated development workflows, evaluation of market trends to efficiently incorporate new capabilities to support developers, full end-to-end lifecycle management of the platforms from new feature requests to delivery and maintenance, with on-going support through and after implementation to rapidly resolve user issues.

Job responsibilities

Team Member Capability and Career Development 🚀

Focuses on developing engineering team capabilities that align with the immediate project needs and goals and function's overall vision.

Encourages team members to self-define their career journey and actively enables development opportunities that align with it.

Removes roadblocks and sets clear, achievable performance goals.

Ensures the team develops the right skills and healthy internal dynamics to meet current and future challenges.

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Team Health and Sustainability 🌱

Maintains a sustainable pace of work for the team, balancing delivery goals with team well-being.

Cultivates healthy team dynamics and collaboration, ensuring psychological safety and open communication.

Removes impediments that hinder flow or morale, acting as an escalation point for the team.

Ensures team members are equipped with the necessary, relevant skills and that roles are clearly defined.

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Product and Service Delivery Leadership ⚙️

Responsible for co-creating the Product / Service Roadmap from a technical perspective, partnering with the Product Manager who is overall responsible.

Accountable for the team's end-to-end delivery of features as part of the product development, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and quality standards.

Sets clear focus and priorities for the team's delivery work, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps.

Actively removes impediments and roadblocks to progress, escalating when necessary to protect the team's focus.

Manages and aligns stakeholders' expectations and needs, providing regular updates on progress and risks.

Creates efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible across teams and functions.

Performance & Optimization ⏫

Defines success metrics, analyzes workforce capability trends, and identifies opportunities for optimization to achieve business goals.

Translates data into actionable insights and regularly communicates delivery performance to stakeholders and the wider team.

Identifies and implements process improvements within the team and in its interactions with other teams to boost efficiency and quality.

Financial & Resource Mgmt. 📈

Supports the development of detailed business cases for new products or significant features.

Makes data-driven decisions on how to allocate engineering, design, and other resources to maximize impact and achieve product goals.

Manages the team's budget, including headcount, operational costs, and vendor contracts, ensuring financial responsibility.

Qualifications

Experience

5+ years of experience in people leadership, product/service management, program management, or a similar role, with a proven track record of building high performing teams

2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry

Education

Bachelor or advanced degree

Business or IT specification

Technical & business skills

Strong understanding of software development platforms, modern platform engineering practices, and robust software build/release management processes

Deep familiarity with enterprise-grade Source Code Management (SCM), Artifact Management, and advanced CI/CD solutions

Ability to evaluate emerging market trends and efficiently incorporate AI capabilities to drive developer efficiencies and accelerate time-to-market

Proven ability to guide tools from scratch (POCs) and scale them to thousands of global users, managing the entire lifecycle from new feature requests to maintenance, support, and eventual decommissioning

Experience managing platform reliability and meeting the SLAs of heterogeneous customers and globally distributed teams

Strong understanding of software and product development methodologies, with a track record of translating user feedback into scalable platform features

A fierce advocate for reducing developer friction, continuously evolving platforms to meet changing engineering demands, and directly boosting internal user productivity

Proven ability to effectively engage with a diverse, globally distributed network of stakeholders ensuring continuous alignment on product vision and roadmap

Exhibits a lean & agile mindset

Leadership skills (where applicable)

Exhibits servant and creative leadership (VACC) behavior

Demonstrated experience building high performing teams

Have a keen IT market focus: you are passionate about major trends for the specific discipline

Demonstrates an executive presence, strong business acumen, ability to navigate ambiguity, and manages complexity

Manages risks progressively and in a way that leads to opportunity

Enterprise mindset that can break down silos. Focus on delivery through collaboration, and bringing people together to work towards the same purpose across organizational boundaries.

Ability to empower teams and individuals to act autonomously and hold them accountable.

Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has a strong passion for innovation

 

 

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.