Solution Architect, Global Supply Chain

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. The Position In alignment with our core corporate purpose—"Doing now what patients need next"—the Solution Architect provides strategic technical leadership and architectural governance to optimize our global supply chain and logistics systems. This critical role acts as the primary conduit between complex operational requirements and enterprise digital ecosystems, ensuring our warehouse management, material tracking, and cold-chain infrastructure remain scalable, resilient, and fully compliant. The Opportunity This position champions an integrated, system-wide approach focused on three core imperatives: Architectural Blueprinting: Design and govern the end-to-end technical architecture for warehouse operations, integrating ERP, WMS, and automated data monitoring tools. Operational Integrity: Ensure all technical platforms satisfy regulatory compliance boundaries while safeguarding the continuity of supply. Digital Transformation: Catalyze the modernization of legacy supply chain systems, introducing advanced automation, predictive data models, and unified communication matrices across local and external partner networks. What You Do Formulate and articulate a compelling, long-term technical vision for our supply chain infrastructure, ensuring software systems scale seamlessly with product portfolio growth. Actively monitor and anticipate shifts in enterprise cloud capabilities, digital compliance requirements, and IoT tracking frameworks to engineer future-proof architectures. Author comprehensive architectural blueprints that seamlessly unify operational warehouse management systems (Exacta, Syncro, SAP) with global material planning frameworks (ERP / SAP), optimizing data synchronization and transaction velocity Partner with the Data Insights team to design well structured and real-time metric dashboards, enabling automated reporting. Act as an enterprise technical advisor to cross-functional teams, translating complex architectural choices into practical, operational realities for business stakeholders. Influence internal development teams and third-party vendors to adhere to rigid architectural standards, prioritizing continuous system refinement and robust cyber-security posture. Serve as the core technical connector bridging Warehouse Operations, Quality Assurance, Global Logistics, and Corporate IT networks to eliminate digital friction. Lead the technical risk mitigation strategies required during the deployment of automated high-density storage platforms, cloud migrations, or shifting network structures. Design and maintain scalable system architectures that integrate core warehouse operations with peripheral data layers, emphasizing system uptime, data redundancy, and robust API frameworks. Evaluate, select, and manage relationships with enterprise software vendors and external integrators, ensuring deliverables satisfy rigorous service level agreements (SLAs). Who You Are Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Supply Chain Systems, or a related technical discipline. 5-8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise solution architecture and/or data engineering with documented success designing integrations for ERP (e.g., SAP) and modern Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) within high-density logistics networks. Preferred Technical Credentials & Skills Architectural Frameworks: Certified in TOGAF, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect Professional, or equivalent enterprise-scale frameworks. Supply Chain Experience: Advanced, demonstrable command of automated inventory modeling, picking-and-packing algorithmic logic, and lot/serial number control tracking. Data Literacy: Deep proficiency in data integration modeling, data engineering, middleware architecture, and modern business intelligence tools (e.g., SQL, Snowflake, GitLab, Airflow, Python, C#, Java) to track leading system health metrics. Relocation benefits are not available for this posting The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indianapolis, IN is $109,200 - $202,800. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below. Benefits 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. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants .