Custom Software Developer (Lead IT Expert) - RDT Artificial Intelligence

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The Position

Custom Software Developer (Lead IT Expert) - RDT Artificial Intelligence

Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world. 

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

The AI Platforms Experience team is responsible for orchestrating seamless adoption journeys and optimizing the end-to-end user experience across Roche's AI Tech Offering, including agentic platforms. We focus on bridging the gap between platform capabilities and business impact through user research, an intuitive unified AI interface, production-ready blueprints, and hands-on consultancy services. Working closely with product owners, enterprise architects, security, compliance, and enterprise-wide business and developer communities, our mission is to make underlying AI infrastructure invisible, human-centered, and easy to adopt at scale.

The opportunity

Joining the AI Platforms Experience team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping developer experience and driving the enterprise-wide adoption of our AI offerings. You will drive our platform’s experience and lead the delivery of official reference architectures and reusable blueprints. Your role bridges complex underlying AI/ML and agentic  technologies with real-world business value - leading technical consultancies, mentoring engineering communities, and establishing high standards for software delivery, quality, and compliance across Roche.

What You'll Do

• Scope & Content Leadership: Set the strategic technical direction for our user experience, enablement platforms, and user adoption journeys for AI offerings across the enterprise.
• Blueprints & Reference Architectures: Author production-ready blueprints, starter kits, and unified platform interface components that abstract infrastructure complexity and accelerate AI solution delivery.
• Technical Consultancies & Enablement: Lead technical consultancy sessions, evaluate complex use cases, guide architecture selection, and mentor engineering and power-user communities.
• Impact & Adoption Strategy: Translate real-world field insights and developer feedback into structured inputs for the core platform engineering roadmap to drive active value creation and adoption.
• Quality, Compliance & Security: Embed responsible AI guardrails, security best practices, and GxP validation compliance into reusable platform accelerators and developer workflows.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Community Evangelism: Partner with cross-functional leaders across Product, Security, Quality, and Business domains to foster collaboration and technical community engagement.
• Developer Community of Practice & Excellence: Drive developer community engagement, establish best practices, standardize software delivery frameworks, and cultivate technical leadership across teams.
• Asset Creation & Modularity: Identify opportunities for modular enablement frameworks and the creation of reusable assets.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Promote the AI Tech Offering (aITO) actively to drive adoption and alignment across enterprise teams.

Who you are:

Education & Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership in developer platforms, enterprise environment, and building reusable software assets.
• Proven track record of driving developer enablement, leading technical consultancies, and bridging complex AI platform technologies with real-world business adoption.
• AI expertise with a proven track record of driving innovation, spearheading the adoption of emerging AI technologies
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
• Demonstrated success in senior architecture roles, cross-functional team leadership, and mentoring engineering talent to elevate technical standards and execution.
• Strong technical background in software development or platform engineering, with proficiency in writing code and evaluating end-to-end architecture and CI/CD pipelines. Hands-on experience in modern software development processes leveraging AI coding assistants.

Communication & Mindset

• Strong English communication skills (C1/C2), both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Continuous learning posture adapted to rapid technical shifts, with a strong dedication to knowledge sharing and technical leadership.
• Platform-first mindset focused on understanding the technical teams building on platforms to design exceptional developer experiences, alongside the ability to comfortably educate and engage non-technical audiences across different management levels.
• Cross-organizational collaboration skills with the ability to influence and partner effectively across diverse functions and ownership boundaries.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Strong team player and highly collaborative partner, fostering a culture of shared success and mutual support.

• Process Improvement: Proven ability to continuously improve and simplify processes, standards and practices.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong capability in managing stakeholders across organization-wide technical learning programs, business teams, and senior leadership to evangelize Platform Experience best practices.
• Data-Driven Approach: A value-driven mindset with a track record of measuring operational impact and platform adoption through quantitative metrics.

What you get:

• Salary range 19,075 - 35,425 PLN gross based on the employment contract.
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance.
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
• Vacation subsidy available.
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Apply directly and join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

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Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 228,900.00 PLN - 425,100.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to both individual and company performance.

This position also offers an attractive benefits package.

Learn more about how we reward our employees at Roche.

Who we are

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.