Migration & Integration Expert - Roche Cloud Platform AWS

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The Position

As a Migration-integration expert & Technical Product Owner you are responsible for:

• Leading technically Roche’s high-stakes AWS account migrations. Your primary mission is to facilitate the seamless integration of newly acquired entities (M&A) and the consolidation of legacy infrastructure into the Roche Cloud Platform (RCP) AWS.
  

• Advanced AWS engineering for complex networking, security and IAM environments and stakeholder management at all levels in the organization. When not leading active migrations, you will pivot to the platform team to engineer new features and ensure RCP remains at the cutting edge of enterprise cloud standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Establishes technical direction to the whole lifecycle of platforms and services—from inception and design through deployment, operation, and retirement. Applies software engineering principles to build and manage large-scale IT infrastructure products and services, abstracting away the complexity of infrastructure to provide self-service tools and APIs for developers. Designs complex CI/CD pipelines, designs and develops self-healing features, and leads Disaster Recovery design and execution plans.

• Accountability/Problem Solving: Strategically applies expert problem-solving and decision-making skills to address the most complex issues within a team. Leads the maintenance of live services by designing metrics to measure availability, latency, and system health, and is responsible for identifying critical metrics used to establish SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. Proactively plans for IT Infrastructure capacity, performance, and scalability, and leads large initiatives aimed at optimizing inter-related platforms. Accountable for availability, tuning, efficiency, change and configuration management, and emergency response.

• Stakeholder Management: Demonstrates exceptional customer and delivery focus by proactively leading partnership and collaboration with developers, Managed Services suppliers, and vendors to continuously improve application development velocity and optimize services reliability. Works closely with development teams to ensure new features are rolled out with a strategic understanding of reliability. Provides direction, guidance, and priority setting, acting as a senior analyst to transform customer and developer needs into specific requirements.

• Impact/Strategy: Ensures implemented solutions comply with Quality/Regulatory standards and is responsible for implementing and updating cost, compliance, and security best practices. Leads complex audit exercises, providing required evidence to audit teams, and leads audit remediation plans. Manages ITSM processes, challenges requirements to scale systems sustainably, and applies innovation to foster business strategy.

• Complexity/ (Product Size): Demonstrates proven ability to collaborate effectively with diverse virtual teams globally, driving success across multiple product lines within a domain. Leads geo-distributed teams through influence and mentorship, providing specialized guidance to optimize performance and innovation.

• Business/Technical ability: Utilizes wide experience applying Software Engineering principles, automated testing, and CI/CD tools to define technical computing infrastructure entirely under the control of software with no human intervention. Implements and maintains Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and CI/CD pipelines. Applies design thinking, lean, prioritization, and agile methodologies to evolve services.

Qualifications

Education / Experience

• Extensive experience leading the design and implementation of cloud-based solutions

• Demonstrated track record of solving complex, high-impact problems, through automation, architecture and cloud-native patterns.

• Proven ability to mentor junior/mid-level engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and technical curiosity.

• Expertise in collaborating effectively with diverse, cross-functional, and geo-distributed teams.

Technical Skills

• Expert proficiency in building and managing platforms or multi-tenant applications in AWS (account provisioning, landing zone deployment, customizations, exposure of functionality…)

• Expert in Terraform and AWS CDK, with a focus on building sophisticated modules or reusable components that ensure consistency in operations, while minimizing code duplication.

• Expert knowledge of cloud components like IAM (Permission sets, boundaries, identity center), Networking (VPC subnetting, TGW, DX, Route53 profiles, etc), Landing Zone development, security guardrails and capabilities.

• Expert in IaC development, testing and deployment using Terraform or CDK.

• Experience building a platform focusing on developer experience, self-service APIs and automated onboarding workflows.

• Strong knowledge in Gitlab/Github, SDLC practices and CI/CD.

• Expert knowledge on scripting languages such as Python or Bash and testing frameworks like Pytest.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (SAFe), principles, processes, and tools.

• Experience integrating and operationalizing AI agents or LLM-based tools to optimize DevOps workflows, automated documentation or incident analysis.

Additional Qualifications

• Strong ability to practice sustainable incident response, including managing ITSM processes and conducting blameless postmortems.

• Ability to design and build cloud solutions that adhere to the AWS Well Architected framework (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization and Sustainability).

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.