Staff Software Systems Design Engineer | Roche Dia Asia Pacific | Remote (Spain)
Job Description
Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.
The Position
Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of software systems design standards, practices, and implementation in complex systems and assignments. General responsibilities include providing servant leadership to a technical definition and acceptance team, accountability for the deliverables of design input within a software development program, design concept and design input generation, participating in design reviews, and acceptance of team deliverables by assessing performance against design specification and desired customer workflows and outcomes. Participates in a self-organizing team culture.
Your main responsibilities:
• Partners with business and software development team(s) to translate high-level business/customer requirements and user needs into clear and detailed software design specifications.
• Interacts with implementation team(s) to ensure that delivered software features and solutions are aligned with the design specifications and the overall architectural vision of the product and provides guidance to the team(s) as necessary.
• Manages and maintains the product backlog in collaboration with business stakeholders, ensuring that features are well-defined, estimated, and aligned with project goals. Facilitates backlog grooming sessions to maintain a clear and actionable backlog.
• Provides the development team(s) with detailed design specifications that create clear direction for implementation efforts, based on collaboration with Program Management and System Architect, empowering external teams to work independently and effectively.
• Demonstrates expertise in eliciting, evaluating, specifying, and validating the requirements of complex software systems. Ensures that requirements are well-documented, traceable, and aligned with business goals.
• Develops comprehensive use cases to capture functional requirements, user interactions, robust assessment of alternate flows and exception handling, and consideration of system complexities, integrations, and edge cases.
• Ensures that activity diagrams, user interactions, and acceptance criteria are clear, concise, and effectively communicate intended system behavior to all stakeholders and technical teams.
• Upholds the standards of modular design to create scalable, maintainable, and reusable software components.
• Assists and influences the team(s) to focus on customer centricity, built-in software quality and holistic system design thinking in addition to technical excellence.
• Guides the team through all phases of the software development lifecycle, leveraging agile ways of working and quality by design standards.
• Works with System Architects and team to introduce architectural enablers to maintain architectural runway.
• Reviews and critiques presentations for others; presents complex technical data to large and diverse groups.
• Presents design and backlog content both internally and externally to both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Consults on software development and software systems design-related concerns and makes significant contributions to strategic direction and alignment to overall software best practices and customer-centric approaches through knowledge of technology and its creative applications.
• Models our speak-up culture in a constructive and professional manner.
• Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.
• Other duties as assigned by management.
Who you are:
• You have demonstrated software systems subject matter expertise and systems thinking proficiency, creativity, collaboration with others, and critical thinking.
• Ability to understand business requirements and customer needs and translate them into software design.
• Ability to manage expectations when balancing design alternatives between business and technical constraints.
• Understands and uses expert practices for requirements management, systems design, user experience development, and usability.
• Mentors others in requirements management, systems design, user-experience development, and usability.
• Ability to influence others to get a consensus on the best solutions for Roche and the customer.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively document software systems design with UML.
• Develops and uses company design practices as applied to projects.
• Understands and applies industry best practices and benchmarks.
• Ability to question existing designs or practices and think outside the box to be innovative in problem solving. Possess a mindset of taking initiatives in not only tackling, but following through on hard problems.
• Ability to prioritize needed work based on empirical evidence and lean design practices.
• Ability to listen to concerns and issues attentively before providing a recommendation or judgment.
• Reputation as leader in field, or domain/subject matter expertise, demonstrated by sustained performance and accomplishments.
• Information Security and Data Privacy fundamentals
**What do we offer?
We offer competitive compensation and excellent social benefits like flexible work schedule and home office policies, medical insurance, pension plan, allowances for marriage and birth, training related to your career development, gym, meal allowance, flexible remuneration scheme with its fiscal advantages and other benefits
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Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.