Principal Software/Data Engineer

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The Position

This role is based in the Innovation Accelerator (IA) team, the innovation engine and connective tissue for Design, Data and Data Science innovation strategy within Product Development Data Sciences (PDD). We translate our long-term PDD vision into actionable strategy, shaping and prioritizing innovative cross-functional use cases that span PDD, PD, and Pharma. As both integrators and incubators, we explore, prototype, and help productize solutions to deliver impact in close partnership with internal Roche teams and external collaborators. With a mindset rooted in openness, value creation, and adaptability, we navigate the innovation ecosystem to drive transformative impact and future readiness across the organization.

The Opportunity

• You design and implement robust, secure, and scalable software architectures that support data- and ML-driven products
• You build front-end interfaces using modern frameworks (e.g., React, Vue) to enable intuitive user interactions with complex data outputs
• You develop and maintain back-end APIs and data pipelines that integrate models and data into production-grade environments
• You write simple, elegant, well-structured, and well-tested applications, software, and/or code that drive new features and improvements across all our products and services in adherence with regulatory compliance
• You collaborate with UX designers, data scientists, and product managers to align on user needs and translate them into technical solutions
• You monitor and optimize the performance, reliability, and maintainability of deployed software systems
• You enable reproducibility and development efficiency by implementing standardized logging, version control, and configuration management, while contributing to internal knowledge sharing and reusable code libraries
• You partner with IT teams to manage CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and security protocols
• You participate in agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and contribute to backlog refinement and prioritization
• You apply a product-thinking mindset to balance technical trade-offs with user impact and business value
• You develop tools and dashboards for monitoring data flows, system health, and model performance
• You keep up to date with emerging technologies in software, cloud, and data engineering to continuously improve practices
• You support early pilots, MVPs, and scaled implementations across therapeutic areas by ensuring smooth deployment of experiments and applications in cloud and custom PaaS environments
• You embrace a collaborative culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and feedback

Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field
• You have a minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering, including leading architecture or infrastructure efforts for data-centric or ML-powered applications; or an advanced degree with 6 years of equivalent work experience
• You have 4+ years of experience with relational and non-relational database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redshift, MongoDB, S3)
• You have 4+ years of experience building and optimizing data pipelines using tools such as DVC, Pandas, Airflow
• You have strong proficiency in front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) and back-end API development
• You have hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and inf