Job Abstract

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Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED) Computational Sciences (gCS) is on a mission to partner across the organization to realize the potential of data, technology and computational approaches that will revolutionize how targets and therapeutics are discovered and developed, ultimately enabling novel treatments for patients across the world.  We stand at the beginning of an exciting journey.The Computational Catalysts group within gCS is a diverse, curious and action-driven team at the intersection of computation, engineering and science with ambition to advance our technical excellence. The focus of the team is on partnering with the informatics and scientific communities to create a computational and data ecosystem that powers scientific discovery and accelerates decision making.  We aim to modernize our ability to acquire, store, link, share, find and analyze data across the organization through scalable and integrated solutions that truly make every data point count.  Reporting directly to the Executive Director, Data Solutions and Engineering this Function Tech Lead will play a key role in defining and executing the strategy for the Data Fabric for this newly created group.  

The Data Solutions and Engineering group within Computational Catalyst is accountable for establishing a common Data Fabric which connects our Systems, specifically our Data Pipelines and Applications for data acquisition, collection, storage, transformation, linkage and sharing. This team strives to build delightful applications and systems for our stakeholders with a strategic mindset. The team is responsible for the end to end product lifecycle management and the work done is leveraged downstream for building key scientific insights and enabling our ML/AI workflows and models. The Function Tech Lead for Solutions Engineering will closely work with Software Engineers, Product and Tech/ML Ops in their role.

The Function Tech Lead for Solutions Engineering is an experienced and highly credible visionary and technical leader with the proven ability to deliver, form collaborative partnerships and foster an engaging team culture built on trust.  You will be responsible and accountable for designing and helping implement the data solutions and applications within the Computational Catalysts function. You will deeply contribute towards building common data solutions and frameworks which can be leveraged across multiple initiatives. You will be responsible for setting standards that will be adopted across Catalysts and the broader organization. The Function Tech Lead will have influence over a number of outstanding data and software engineers, product managers, DevOps and MLOps who are building data solutions. You will have deep expertise and hands-on experience building data centric applications and develop software with user interfaces and be familiar with modern and cutting-edge approaches. You will have an understanding of how to build robust, extensible and modular applications that exemplify industry best practices, minimizing manual interventions, ensuring robustness and scalability, and avoiding technical debt. You will be responsible for driving solutions and building applications that ensure FAIR Principles. The solutions and applications you develop will be leveraged by key stakeholders from lab scientists to Bench Scientists and ML/AI engineers. You will collaborate with leaders in other parts of the Roche Group (e.g. pRED and Product Development) to identify enterprise wide opportunities and best practices. You will help break down silos between efforts and foster collaborative efforts to accelerate common and modular applications. The function Tech Lead will have familiarity with building modular applications which are scalable, reliable, performant and robust. You are passionate about learning in general and newer technologies in specific. You have been a full stack developer in the past and specially have a deep understanding of front end development technologies. You are skilled and passionate about mentoring and coaching on diverse topics but specially on technical topics. You will make decisions related to technical roadmaps, solutions and capability development and will be expected to make key contributions to the overall success of gCS. 

The Opportunity:

• Provide technical leadership around Application and Solutions Engineering for Data and Solution Engineering group and more broadly as appropriate

• Build the Application ecosystem strategy for Catalysts Organization in close collaboration with partners and stakeholders

• Drive alignment and own completion of a UI component library which can be leveraged to create delightful user interfaces and experiences for our stakeholders and drive consolidation and deprecation of legacy applications and systems and reduction of tech Debt

• Identifying key trends, technologies, methodologies and influence there adoption by taking an Open Source focussed, Cloud first, API first and AI first approach

• Learn, deeply understand and ultimately improve our Application Architecture and ecosystem by leveraging standard patterns like layered architecture, microservices, event-driven, multi-tenancy etc

• Responsible for ensuring our technical choices are innovative, best-in-class and are inter-operable and consistent across gCS, Research Biology, Drug Discovery, Translational Medicine, Development Sciences and beyond

• Understand and influence technical decisions around application development , application ecosystem while working collaboratively with our key partners 

• Deliver on the goal of bringing diverse sets of data together through Applications to support a wide range of activities such as AI/ML, search, reporting, and analytics

• Building a strong and collaborative community of Full Stack Engineers with a strong focus on mentoring, standardization and best practices (CI/CD, coding standards, code reviews, testing and more)

• Facilitate the implementation of large-scale models that take advantage of advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence

• Establish and foster strong internal and external partnerships and relationships with leaders and stakeholders in Computational Catalysts, gCS and beyond

• Lead by example to establish and demonstrate the culture and working environment of this new organization aligned with our gCS values: impact, collaboration, diversity, scientific excellence and curiosity

Who You Are: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field. Master’s degree or higher preferable and 12 years of experience in software engineering

• Experience in Application architecture leveraging patterns and with building complex data centric solutions 

• Familiarity with industry leading OLTP and/or OLAP systems

• Full Stack Experience with many of these technologies:  Frontend technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript Libraries), Backend Technologies (Node.Js, Python, Java), Databases and Data Analytics (SQL/NoSQL, ETL, ELT), APIs (REST, GraphQL)   

• Hands on with programming languages such as Python or Java

• Experience with building Designs for Applications which are highly reliable, scalable, performant, secure and robust and ideally on a public cloud platform

• Takes an Open Source, Cloud First, API First, AI First approach towards problem solving 

• Experience technically leading large and complex projects, involving multiple teams and stakeholders and achieving outstanding results in a timely and efficient manner and experience influencing, motivating and aligning others towards common technical decisions and leverages shared ownership as appropriate.

• Highly collaborative and ability to build trusted partnerships with internal and external stakeholders 

• Ability to think strategically and optimize for the long term while acting with a sense of urgency

• Cares about product excellence and building highly usable solutions

• Experience building Software Standards and best practices which can be leveraged by broader organization and experience reducing Tech Debt and consolidating and deprecating legacy solutions

• Acts as a mentor and coach for other and posesses strong oral and written communication skills

Relocation benefits are available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $181,900 - $337,700 of hiring range.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

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