About the role

The Solution Architect focuses on designing business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready solutions within a specific solution context. In this role, you will need to listen to end user needs and consider the user experience (UX) to design solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards.

We are seeking a visionary and user-centric Solution Architect to take ownership of the transversal digital experience across our employee platforms. In this role, you will not be managing isolated tools; instead, you will act as the architect of a unified system, bridging the gap between business needs and technical execution.

You will collaborate closely with a mature, high-performing engineering teams (including Product Owners, System administrators, and Developers) to transform fragmented portals into a synchronized, single-solution ecosystem. This is a strategic and tactical role perfect for someone passionate about the human impact of technology, data-driven design, and scalable architecture.

You will also enable AI solutions in existing systems, improving their current functionality and finding the most productive environment for the platform ecosystem.

Workforce Enablement (WE) is the home for employee-facing products, services and experiences within RDT. We deliver digital tools, drive adoption and provide the support necessary to enable the entire workforce, wherever they are, every single day.

As the Platforms Experience team inside WE, we believe that the digital experience of our employees should be just as seamless, intuitive, and modern as the experience we deliver to our external customers. We are a newly established team dedicated to tearing down technological silos and orchestrating a cohesive, unified digital ecosystem. Our ultimate mission is to drive digital maturity, ensure platform integration, implement AI and foster workplace wellbeing by eliminating friction from the daily digital lives of our global workforce. We design the future of work, ensuring our platforms scale sustainably and are ready for the next generation of intelligent corporate services.

What you'll do

Designs solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards within a specific Solution Context. Manages Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and fitness functions. Documents and evolves the architecture throughout the product life cycle and aligns with the architecture community for governance.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves complex problems by taking a new perspective on existing solutions and exercising judgment based on the analysis of multiple information sources. Maintains the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for the solution. Assesses and consults on the impacts and dependencies of initiatives on capabilities, risk, and the application landscape. Creates Conceptual & Logical Data Models for the solution and its interfaces. Defines and drives reference architectures, patterns, and ensures Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are appropriately recorded.
Stakeholder Management: Explains difficult or sensitive information clearly and actively works to build consensus among stakeholders. Drives information sharing and exchange about the solution.
Employee-Centric Mindset & Empathy: A genuine passion for improving the daily work-life of employees, combined with user-research skills to identify and eliminate digital adoption friction.
Information Architecture & UX/UI Frameworks: Strong ability to map complex employee journeys, define intuitive navigation paths, and unify disparate visual and functional experiences into a clean, frictionless interface.
Ecosystem Integration Vision: Clear understanding of how digital platforms connect operationally (basic APIs, data flows, and unified portal layouts) to ensure scalable and sustainable architecture.

About the company & team

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.

Experience

3 years experience in designing business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a specific solution context
Experience maintaining the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for technical solutions, and assessing the impacts of initiatives on risk and application landscapes

Technical Skills

General and in-depth knowledge in one or two technology areas.
Proficiency in creating Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, and Ontologies for solutions and interfaces.
Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions.
Strong capability to drive external technology trends and assess feasibility for the solution, including conducting vendor assessments.
Experience working with APIs, Data Flows and UI Frameworks

Additional Qualifications

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and successfully build consensus.
Proactive mindset to identify opportunities to enhance value and business processes, improve existing solutions, and manage technical debt.
Data-Driven UX Design: Experience utilizing advanced digital analytics and behavioral tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Nexthink) to measure real platform adoption, drop-off rates, and user friction.
Change Management
Digital Adoption Platforms (DAP)
AI Foundations & Data Structure

Additional information

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.

Solution Architect - RDT Workforce Enablement

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