Lead AI Technology Consultant

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The Position

Job description

As a Lead AI Technology Consultant, you will serve as a go-to expert for different stakeholders, combining AI technical leadership, business consulting and end-to-end delivery. You will lead cross-functional AI teams on high-impact, complex products, anticipating changing business conditions and recommending strategic directions with enterprise-wide implications. By engaging with senior executives and scaling Agile frameworks, you will align priorities across product squads and resolve unprecedented problems. You will shape product roadmaps, influence domain strategy using extensive industry knowledge, and masterfully mentor colleagues to foster a highly collaborative, safe, and innovative team environment.

Description of the area

Join Roche Digital Technology's global Data, Analytics & AI organisation supporting Legal & Compliance and Group Communications. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the AI transformation of a large enterprise, working across Legal, Compliance, Group Communications, Internal Audit and Transparency / Transfer of Value reporting.

The Opportunity:

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Leads cross-functional AI delivery teams in a matrix organization to deliver high-impact, complex solutions. Sets clear technical and delivery expectations, mentors specialists, and coordinates architects, engineers, data scientists and analysts across initiatives. 
• Accountability/Problem Solving: Takes end-to-end accountability for technical delivery, from discovery and solution design through development, deployment and ongoing operations. Removes roadblocks, resolves dependencies and delivery risks, and coordinates maintenance, monitoring, incident resolution and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Engages senior stakeholders and executives as a trusted AI advisor. Evaluates use cases and develops business cases covering expected value, feasibility, effort, cost and risk. Communicates options and trade-offs clearly, constructively challenges assumptions, and supports adoption and measurement of realised benefits. 
• Impact/Strategy: Acts as the AI go-to person for leadership, determining the best course of action in new/innovative capabilities. Provides consistent leadership and significant impact on complex and/or high-impact programs. Influences strategy at the domain level by using extensive industry knowledge to shape product roadmaps and workforce strategies toward strategic trends. Masters coaching and mentoring to develop others' expertise and creates a safe environment that empowers participants and enables great teamwork.
• Complexity/ (Product Size): Leads complex, high-visibility AI initiatives with enterprise-wide implications. Coordinates system risk assessments, data classification and required approvals; personally contributes architecture descriptions, data flows and risk documentation with security, privacy and compliance specialists.
• Business/Technical ability: Combines business-process understanding with deep enterprise AI expertise to translate ambiguous requirements into secure, scalable and maintainable solutions. Guides generative AI, agent orchestration, workflow automation and system integration, including evaluation, monitoring and human oversight, without acting as the team's primary developer or code reviewer.

Who you are:

Education / Experience

• 8+ years of Consultancy experience, including 5+ years in life sciences/pharma or the assigned business function being supported.
• Proven track record of personally leading enterprise AI solution architecture and delivery from business concept through production deployment and ongoing operation, with demonstrable business outcomes. Experience combining technical direction, business consulting and multidisciplinary team leadership is essential.

Technical Skills

• Practical experience designing generative AI applications including strong cloud architecture and API integration expertise.
• Ability to lead Agile technical delivery, translate agreed priorities into executable plans and technical backlogs, assess architectural alternatives and make sound technical decisions. Experience with AI evaluation, quality assurance, observability, production monitoring, security, privacy and responsible AI.

Additional Qualifications

• Exceptional executive stakeholder management, business consulting and facilitation skills; confidently presents and defends evidence-based recommendations when challenged. Excellent written communication and fluent professional English.
• Strong ownership, self-direction and coaching skills; leads through influence, resolves conflicts and develops colleagues within a safe, collaborative environment.

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Kaiseraugst. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

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.