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In this role, you will design software architectures for digital health products, lead technical decisions across app and cloud integration, and integrate AI-augmented tools into the software development lifecycle.
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Your role in the team
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Architect to join the Architecture sub-chapter within Patient Insights Software Applications (PIxSW), where we design digital health and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products spanning mobile apps, connected devices and cloud services, all built on Roche's shared mobile and digital platforms.
- You will own software architecture end to end, across mobile, backend and cloud: the systems, the integration boundaries and the decisions that tie them together.
- The role is roughly 80% architecture, design and technical leadership and 20% prototyping, and you are expected to stay hands-on as needed.
- You lead through the clarity of your designs, not through a reporting line, in a small, senior group that relies on each other to reason from a mobile screen to a cloud data platform.
- We are also changing how software gets built.
- RIS is one of the first teams at Roche to make AI a real part of engineering, and we are building out an AI-augmented software development lifecycle (aSDLC).
- We want an architect who already works this way: someone who uses agentic coding tools like Claude Code as part of their normal workflow, can distinguish a solid result from one that seems plausible but is wrong, and can raise the team's game in how we apply AI to design, build, and review.
- Travel: around 10%, mostly between our Vienna and Sant Cugat sites and for the Roche architecture community.
- Architecture and design:
- Own architecture designs across native mobile, backend and the navify cloud, treating the app-to-cloud integration as a first-class part of the design.
- Write technical designs, architecture decision records, and C4 models that a team can build from.
- Make trade-offs explicit (cost, risk, time to value, reuse), and keep regulated and non-regulated parts of a product cleanly separated so it can cross into medical device territory.
- AI-augmented engineering (aSDLC):
- Help shape our aSDLC: bring agentic tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) into how we design, prototype, document, and review, and show the team what good use looks like.
- Set the standards and guardrails that keep AI-assisted work reliable and accountable in a regulated setting, with a human owning the result.
- Cloud, backend and platform:
- Design backend services on our Java and Spring foundation, modular and well bounded.
- Design data and integration flows across the navify Platform (identity, consent, notifications, AI, FHIR) and the cloud beneath it.
- Reuse first: contribute to the reusable blueprint every new product starts from, extend our shared mobile foundation and navify rather than rebuild, and promote proven pieces back.
- Technical leadership and direction:
- Guide squads towards a clear technical direction, and help them decide when they are stuck between options.
- Partner with our mobile experts and the Cloud and DevOps sub-chapter, adding cross-domain breadth rather than competing with their depth.
- Raise the bar through design reviews, pairing, and mentoring, and produce documentation that keeps products audit-ready.
- Help shape the team's technical direction as one voice in a shared architecture capability.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Bonus skills: FHIR and healthcare data standards, identity and consent platforms, reference architecture or platform teams, deeper SaMD experience.
Qualifications
- A strong track record as a Software Architect designing systems across mobile, backend, and cloud rather than focusing on a single layer, with enough native mobile expertise to collaborate effectively with specialists without being one yourself.
- You already build with agentic AI tools like Claude Code, get real leverage from them, know where they break down, and want to push our aSDLC work forward.
- The ability to turn architecture into actionable artifacts for a team (technical designs, decision records, C4 models) and help the team reach a decision.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to bring people along, as you lead through expertise rather than authority.
- Comfortable making trade-offs and being challenged on them, and happy to get hands-on with prototypes when it takes the risk out of a design.
Experience
- Depth in cloud and backend architecture: Java and Spring, modular and domain-driven design, APIs and integration, cloud-native patterns and DevOps, including CI/CD (experience with a major cloud provider is a plus).
- Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments; SaMD or other medical device software is a strong plus.
What we offer
- Ambitious and passionate people building meaningful products for a global audience.
- An innovative agile working environment that enables collaboration with exceptionally smart people and knowledge sharing in cross-functional teams.
- Loads of benefits (brand-new Apple hardware, fitness, public transport, lunch allowance, language classes, professional development budget, the opportunity to attend global conferences...).
- Flexible working hours and a work-from-home policy, 5 weeks of vacation.
- An amazing office with a rooftop terrace, a fully stocked kitchen, and fantastic barista coffee machines in the heart of Vienna… oh, and did we mention the best team in the world!
- In Austria, we are legally required to disclose the minimum salary under our collective agreement, which for this position is EUR 3,843 gross per month.
- Rest assured, we offer highly competitive compensation packages that take current market trends into account, so you can expect an offer that reflects your level of experience.
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
Higher take-home pay
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About your employer
As the world's largest biotech company, Roche develops groundbreaking medications that improve therapy standards in oncology, immuno-oncology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and neurology. Roche is also the world's leading provider of in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer tests as well as a pioneer in diabetes management.
- German
- Established Company
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Pharmaceutical Sector, Chemical Industry, Biotech
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- Engineering
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- Career growth
- 3.6
- Team culture
- 4.3
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