Senior Data Scientist Full-time

Senior Data Scientist

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be expected to:

• Collaborate globally with business and cross-functional teams to identify data-driven pain points and opportunities; build strong stakeholder relationships; align closely with business and IT; and work with fast iterations, lean documentation, and close communication to deliver impactful solutions for Roche peers and patients.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and solutions, acting as the bridge between business and technical teams; independently plan tasks and run projects end-to-end.
• Oversee and mentor less experienced data scientists and data engineers; perform demos, project reviews, and retrospectives; share ideas for Analytics & Automation and actively incorporate feedback for self-improvement.
• Apply fit-for-purpose methods and implement analytics and data processing algorithms.
• Onboard data into database systems; implement data loads and analysis; perform backend development in SQL.
• Operationalize models using AWS microservices and design optimal AWS architectures for data science projects.
• Create and manage documentation for data science and data engineering projects, and participate in exploratory initiatives to evaluate new technologies and establish new services.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree (Master's a plus) in mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or information science.
• 5+ years of relevant experience, ideally in a multicultural environment working with global processes across Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and IT.
• Professional experience designing and developing data flows and ETL using modern storage solutions (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Redshift, GCP BigQuery).
• Professional experience applying advanced statistical methods and machine/deep learning algorithms to real-world data.
• Professional experience in at least one of: Python, SQL, JavaScript, or dbt.
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal, communication, and networking skills; collaborative, solution-focused mindset; enjoys working with others; extensive stakeholder management; motivated to solve business problems and take on tasks needed to deliver valuable solutions.
• English fluency required; additional languages are a plus.

In exchange we provide you with:

• Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career.
• Excellent benefits & flexibility: Roche Annual Bonus, Monthly transportation allowance, Home Office set – up equipment, Health Insurance, Life/Accident insurance, Full salary when on sick leave for the first 9 days, Eyeglasses settlement, One-time payment options for various events in the life e.g. wedding, childbirth, Service Awards: We value loyalty with additional holidays and bonus payment, Work in a hybrid model (2 days/week from the office)
• A global diverse community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.

Salary starts from 3000 EUR gross/monthly. Final salary depends on the successful candidate's level of experience, skills and qualifications.

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.