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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Representation: Act as the primary cyber security and digital liaison between manufacturing site operations and global PTE teams.
• Architecture & Advisory: Design, define, and enable future manufacturing needs through expert consulting on technologies such as IIoT, Open Source, Unified Namespace (UNS), Asset Administration Shell (AAS), and cloud-based manufacturing systems.
• Site Compliance & Governance: Ensure site-level adherence to corporate cyber security standards, policies, risk frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
• Controls & Infrastructure: Support the implementation and continuous monitoring of cyber security controls across manufacturing equipment, automation systems, and digital infrastructure.
• Bridge & Translation: Adapt global PT and IT cyber security strategies to fit operational realities at the local site level.
• Culture & Empowerment: Facilitate communication, training, and capability building on cyber security practices for cross-functional site teams.
• Incident Response & Resilience: Coordinate site-level incident responses, managing escalations to global teams when required.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with IT, Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to embed security into digital initiatives (e.G., Industry 4.0, IoT, MES).

Qualifications & Skills

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field (Master's preferred), or equivalent practical experience.
• Industry Experience: Proven experience (typically 3-5+ years) in pharmaceutical, biotech, or regulated manufacturing environments.
• Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of cyber security frameworks, compliance standards, GxP regulations, Purdue Model, OT architectural design, Enterprise Service Bus, and UNS implementations.
• Systems Familiarity: Working knowledge of manufacturing systems and digital technologies (e.G., SCADA, DCS, MES, IIoT).
• Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to translate global requirements into practical site action, build trust across global/local teams, and manage diverse stakeholders effectively.
• Problem-Solving & Governance: Experience in risk assessment, KPI governance, audit preparation, and technical documentation.
• Certifications (Bonus): Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISA/IEC 62443, GICSP, or SANS ICS are considered a strong asset.

Job Responsibilities

• + Content Leadership: Treats platform services as internal products with clear documentation, lifecycle management, and stakeholder feedback loops. Designs and documents components of shared technology platforms (e.G., CI/CD, observability, DLP policies) while creating proof of concepts, reference implementations, automation scripts, and platform tooling. Closely follows Microsoft's Power Platform roadmap and general developments in the low-code, no-code and AI space to identify opportunities and challenges within Roche.
• + Accountability/Problem Solving: Takes ownership of ambiguous tasks and topics in the "grey zone" and successfully drives small to medium (S/M) initiatives at the platform level. These initiatives may include the implementation of platform level initiatives, such as the deployment of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit or other automations to support platform administrations. Challenges the status quo, skillfully navigates group dynamics, and fosters good collaboration, knowledge sharing, coaching, and mentoring.
• + Stakeholder Management: Prioritizes and communicates with stakeholders effectively. Leads the platform team to ensure that platform is fit for use, socializes the platform to prospective internal customers, and represents the platform within architect communities. Maintains a bigger picture view informed by Microsoft's roadmap and general low‐code, no‐code, and AI trends. Understands how various platform components fit into the overall organizational strategy and goals.
• + Impact/Strategy: Acts as a technical mentor and aligns development plans with the global strategy. Gives speeches and shares knowledge in internal events (e.G., DevOps Days, Tech Talk, Tech Live) and gets involved in initiatives or tasks reaching outside of the regular project scope.
• + Complexity: Operates at the platform level with a direct impact o