Technical Product Owner - Cloud

Roche’s expanding digital product portfolio demonstrates its commitment to provide healthcare professionals, laboratories, and patients with digital and digitally-enabled solutions that transform patient care. The existing product portfolio includes decision support systems, data management solutions, and workflow solutions. At the center of these diverse types of solutions is always patient data security and privacy as the highest priority for Roche.

In this context, Roche has built a global team that builds, secures, and operates infrastructure platforms (cloud and on-prem) for its digital products. This team is working with a high freedom to operate in a self-organized setup and is responsible for tackling the cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure challenges of the healthcare industry while enabling high-velocity product development.

**The opportunity:**

• Support and promote a culture of product excellence and a healthy product development lifecycle within the Roche Engineering Community.
• Collaborate with product management on strategic roadmapping and alignment; help define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Work closely with architects, compliance, quality, engineering, operations, and cybersecurity teams to enable delivery of product features and services.
• Act as a customer proxy with engineering teams to define and prioritize features and user stories; participate in agile ceremonies and draft iteration objectives to optimize workflow.
• Facilitate clear communication with stakeholders, ensure transparency, manage expectations, coordinate escalations, and liaise with horizontal functions like SRE, Quality, Security, and PMO.
• Continuously inspect and adapt processes to improve program quality, assess metrics, evaluate business value, and balance operations, bug fixes, and new features.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships, prioritize user-centric design, collect and analyze feedback, manage risks and budgets, ensure documentation, and support product adoption through training.

Who you are:

You’re someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for an opportunity where you are able to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where your passion for technology, delivery, reliability, and operational excellence will impact the lives of patients fighting cancer and many other disease areas in the future.

You are an accomplished Engineer or Senior Engineer in Cloud or platform technologies with hands-on experience as DevOps, Cloud, System Reliability, Technical Leader, Architect who can be a thought partner with technical experts in the current engineering team.

You are highly motivated and curiosity is what drives you and are looking for other ways to contribute on a bigger scale and lead the technical team as a Technical Product Owner. You embrace and value lean and agile principles to achieve positive outcomes. You are a humble and trusted leader, a team player with common sense, and a good communicator that gets to the point.

• 5+ years of combined experience in software architecture, engineering, operations, and product ownership/management in SaaS, cloud-native, or internet-scale environments, with education in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of AWS and its ecosystem (e.g., IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS), with hands-on experience in CI/CD practices, GitOps workflows, and tools like GitLab, ArgoCD, and Terraform.
• Skilled in leading technical discussions around DevOps, platform engineering, and software delivery; knowledgeable in DevSecOps and integrating security into the development pipeline.
• Experience working with complex toolchains and environments using Grafana, Splunk, Vault, and container orchestration solutions.
• Fluent in English, familiar with Agile (Scrum or SAFe), experienced in backlog management and iterative delivery; able to manage product delivery in regulated environments and understands compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST); healthcare domain experience is a strong plus