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The Position

Introduction

At Roche, we believe every employee can make a monumental impact on patient care. As the Head of Forward-Deployed Data Engineering, you will lead a agile, Hyderabad-based team dedicated to accelerating our highest-priority AI, Data, and agentic transformation use cases across the company. You will champion the intersection of cutting-edge AI strategy and robust enterprise data architecture to shape the future of how work gets done at Roche.

About RDT Data: RDT Data brings together 4 functional areas:

Data Governance and Adoption, Business Operations and Data Platforms:




The Data Governance team establishes the Data Governance and Data Management practices which are required for organizational alignment of our data.

The Business Operations team
focuses on enabling a high performing Data Organization within the broader RDT Context.

The Data Platform organization
provides the foundational capabilities that enable Roche to create, manage, discover, govern, integrate, and consume data, context, and knowledge at scale. The organization supports a federated data architecture in which domains retain ownership of their data while central platform teams provide reusable capabilities, standards, patterns, and guardrails. The platform organization is structured around four capability areas: BI, Search & Data Marketplace; Data Integration, APIs, MCP, Streaming & Observability; Data Platforms, Data Lakes / Lakehouse, Vector DB, Knowledge Graph & DataOps Tooling; Semantic Layer, MDM, Metadata Ma

📌 Head of Forward-Deployed Data Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Roche
📍 Hyderabad