The PositionYou are joining a dynamic Enterprise Architecture environment - including an ongoing transformation and you are going to have the opportunity to shape and elevate your contribution to the organization and ultimately to the customer and patient.Roche aims to have a solid foundation for achieving operational excellence and high level of customer experience throughout their commercial End-to-end value streams - Marketing Plan to Cash', Plan to deliver customer service' and Subscribe to retire digital products'.This vision requires Roche to develop a well thought-out architecture comprising a digital core (envisioned to be in SAP S / 4HANA) and state-of-the-art solutions integrated with this digital core.As a thought leader and Enterprise Architect with focus on ERP - commercial excellence, you will support Roche's transformation in partnership with system & solution architects to make decisions and architect composable, scalable and cloud-ready solutions.PurposeIn your role you will become a member of the Architecture Chapter. The Architecture Chapter provides the capabilities required to plan and develop Informatics solutions and build roadmaps and strategies to set the direction for the future.As an Enterprise Architect you will partner with relevant stakeholders in business and foundational domains, product lines, product management and lean portfolio management, and provide the expertise needed to bring together the different requirements and dimensions needed to support the development of the current and future direction;translating the overall business strategy(s) into an informatics strategic direction.Additionally you will bring an understanding of the external market, drive the research and examination of new technologies to innovate and evaluate the next generation of fit-for-purpose solutions.Career OpportunitiesPlay a key role in the strategic planning on domain, product line and product level by establishing a technology and information strategy and roadmap that enables a portfolio to support current and future business capabilities connecting the business and IT strategyYou are a Lean Portfolio Governance member and provide inputs to portfolio prioritization decisionsYou drive the design, engineering, reuse of applications or patterns, which includes the creation of Enabler Epics for the architectures that comprise the solutions in a portfolio;ensuring a continuous flow of value and improving the time to marketYou have a focus on reusable technology and information to maintain the architectural runway leveraging a composable architecture creating reliable easy to compose and consume components)You drive the continuous improvement of the quality of products within your domain by applying Quality Attributes (NFRs) on relevant levels (portfolio, product lines and products)You drive the research and examination of new technologies including the feasibility assessment that provide insights on the scalability and cross domain usageYou support the development of lean business cases and monitor the domain, product line and products for new demands; specifically with a focus on skills and capabilities that the chapter needs to provide nextPut a strong focus on the enabling the flow and access on information and manage the information security in the domain, product line and products you are supporting in order to optimize the information and data sharing across the enterpriseYou follow a lean-agile governance approach in support of agile teams, enabling decentralized decision making to balance between intentional architecture and emergent design, promoting architecture practices such as recording architectural decisions and architectural assessments.You manage the evolution of the domain IT Landscape and ensure it enables the business document and maintain the current and future / desired IT landscape in collaboration with solution architects of the domain, product line, products you are supportingYou guide and coach implementation teams and solution architects on the technical architecture implementation activities, particularly for new and / or shared solutionsYou continuously collaborate across and among all architecture groups (chapter & catalyst) and product teams to adjust and evolve architecture guardrails (including architecture principles, reference models;patterns, decision frameworks), architecture practices and metrics enabling flow and business outcome).Perform the leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required to ensure that information systems are designed and evolve appropriatelyQualifications and ExperienceBachelor's / Master's Degree in Information Technology or equivalentA certification or detailed knowledge of the TOGAF architecture framework or comparable architecture methodologies is a plusA certification or detailed knowledge of the SAFe framework or comparable agile delivery methodologies is a plus such as the Open Agile Architecture standardA certification or detailed knowledge in the area of Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is a plusProfound hands-on experience in architecting / implementing software solutions and managing architecture on portfolio levelAbility to build / create proof of concept / pilot applications to showcase platform functionality to business partners / stakeholders.Functional expertise in SAP ERP modules, in S / 4HANA, and SAP Cloud Solutions Business Technology Platform)Broad and strong experience in SAP ERP architecture with solid technical & architectural skills in different domains (business, application, information, but ideally also middleware, integration, databases, cloud, analytics)Experience in commercial process areas (Order-to-cash, customer service, subscription & billing management, contract management)You exhibit a Lean-Agile mindset, seeks for existing reusable building blocks that will shorten the design and increase the speed of delivery.Focus on Reuse before Buy before Make when providing direction on future solutions. The best solution may not need significant software developmentGood enough instead of perfectionYou have a strong passion to bring value-adding technology to the business.You have a strong understanding, embraces and actively acts in the VACC roles depending on the situation givenYou have the ability to apply systems thinking and consider both dimensions : within and across portfolios (domains)You exhibit strong soft skills typically required as an Architect presentation and public speaking, negotiation, challenging the status quo, explaining complex matters in a simple way)#J-18808-Ljbffr
