Data & Information Architect

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Data & Information Architect

As part of IPPS (Integrated Product & Partnering Strategy Informatics), the position “Data & Information Architect” holds accountability and responsibility for data & information architecture and integration of IT solutions in all the domains of sales & marketing, medical affairs, compliance.

The focus of this position is the definition of the Master Data, Data Flow, Data Ownership and Governance as well as the information generation. This will be done in collaboration with the solution architects of the specific domains, the business analysts and the portfolio architect as well as the business owners of the respective data objects. Beside the definition and maintenance of the data objects, the legal and compliance impacts must be taken into account. One of the aspects is to ensure that the Data Privacy law is enforced and implemented across all solutions.

The second task is to make sure that any chosen solution architecture fulfills known and understood business requirements from the perspective of data and information handling, fitting into the IT roadmap definitions, fitting into the technology stack and continuously providing business value over its lifecycle. So Data Stewardship needs to be established while on the other side the data objects need to be ready for a multi-purpose Data Warehouse.

What you'll be working on:

·  Partnering with business and through the rationalization of the information value chain, providing strategic recommendations to maximize the value of information assets via their creation, access and use
·  Developing and maintaining a strategic cross-solution and cross-functional information landscape and flows for all enterprise solutions
·  Identifying areas for improvement in terms of information flows and structure, automation, information representation and advising project teams in best practice and implementation
·  Improving the overall quality of the enterprise data assets through the effective application of best practice in information architecture
·  Recognizing and resolving conflicts between models, ensuring that information and data models are consistent with the enterprise model (e.g., entity names, relationships and definitions)
·  Reviewing and approving information and data model designs with a focus on those areas influencing interoperability, analytics including compliance with the enterprise information model
·  Ensuring integration of project logical data models into the enterprise information model
·  Maintaining repositories for representing the data elements including the entities, relationships and attributes, the information flows, business glossary
·  Participating in the development of a usable information architecture, which will include a data model and a common business vocabulary, which will then be used to guide solution development and achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio.

Who we are

Bei Roche leisten 94,000 Menschen in 100 Ländern Pionierarbeit im Gesundheitswesen. Gemeinsam haben wir uns zu einem weltweit führenden, forschungsorientierten Healthcare-Konzern entwickelt. Unser Erfolg baut auf Innovation, Neugier und Vielfalt.

Roche ist ein Arbeitgeber, der die Chancengleichheit fördert.

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Who you are

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

As the ideal candidate, you are:

·  Recognized as an expert for the domains of Global Product Strategy, Medical Affairs and Pharma Partnering
·  Principally focused on enterprise information solutions, such as master data management, metadata management, business intelligence, data interoperability, analytics, data integration.
·  Encouraging a data citizenship mindset ensuring we all collectively take responsibility and accountability for the data we create, consume, manage and share.
·  Exhibiting an Agile mindset, i.e. good enough instead of perfection and focus on “Reuse before Buy before Make” when providing direction on future solutions
·  Exhibiting strong soft skills typically required as an architect (i.e. presentation and public speaking, negotiation, challenging the status quo)
·  Driving the increase in maturity and knowledge of information related topics across the organisation through education and mentoring

Please apply until: 10 November, 2019.

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