Roche's Innovation Accelerator (IA) team needs to scale high-performing technical teams across data science, software engineering, and solution development to translate long-term PDD vision into actionable strategy, shaping and prioritizing innovative cross-functional use cases and productizing solutions to deliver impact.
Requirements
- You have 12+ years of experience in project, study, or technical solution delivery across data science, software engineering, or digital product development
- You have 3+ years of experience in people leadership, including managing technical teams in matrixed or agile environments
- You have a proven track record of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing technical teams
- You are familiar with innovation processes and prototyping-to-productization pipelines
- You have demonstrated ability to align team execution with strategic and cross-functional goals
- You have knowledge of and experience with four or more of the following: Epidemiology, including causal inference methods for observational real world data (RWD) or real world evidence (RWE); Bayesian statistics; Decision theory, including multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), utility elicitation, decision simulation models, or Value of Information; Clinical outcomes research using data from electronic health records (EHR); Discovery mechanisms and evidence generation pathways for novel biomarkers and risk scores; Interpretable machine learning; Methods to incorporate knowledge graphs, ontologies, or other forms of structured information; Probabilistic programming languages; Complex or innovative clinical trial designs, including adaptive stopping, seamless Phase 2/Phase 3 designs
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, agile tooling, and collaborative development workflows
Responsibilities
- You support delivery teams across the solution lifecycle, from early-stage prototyping through productization and integration
- You oversee consistent implementation of best practices in data science, software engineering, and solution delivery within assigned teams
- You drive continuous improvement of internal processes to increase team efficiency, quality, and cross-functional alignment
- You partner with program and product leads to ensure appropriate technical staffing, risk management, and delivery velocity
- You serve as escalation point for delivery issues and coordinate technical resolution in collaboration with the Technical Lead
- You ensure high standards for documentation, reproducibility, and compliance across teams
- You lead a team of technical specialists (e.g., data scientists, engineers) across multiple workstreams and capability areas
Other
- You collaborate with the IA Data Science Head and function leadership to operationalize the innovation roadmap and scale high-impact solutions
- You translate innovation priorities into team-level resourcing, planning, and development strategies
- You manage workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, and succession planning in alignment with Innovation Initiatives strategic priorities
- You set team goals and development plans, guide performance reviews, and support career progression
- You cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture with a focus on learning, ownership, and delivery excellence
