Team Lead Engineering Platform Success Region NALA
Roche
Team Lead Engineering Platform Success Region NALA
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As a Team Lead Engineering Platform Success Region NALA (Engineering Manager), you will ensure and support the hardware, software, and/or service delivery as a leader setting focus, removing impediments, managing stakeholders, and creating efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible. You will focus on capabilities development of your team members that align with the function's vision and will encourage your team to self-define their career journey and seek ways to enable development opportunities in the direction of the journey. You will support them in removing roadblocks and by setting focus on their performance management and make sure to develop your team with the right skills, healthy dynamics, and a sustainable pace.
Hosting and Infrastructure (HI) provides mission critical on-premise infrastructure, cloud hosting, connectivity, and technology products that enable all functions at every Roche site to develop, innovate, connect, and deliver compliant digital products across the Roche Enterprise.
With Roche campuses and datacenters all over the globe, it is key to ensure successful adoption and facilitation of Network Platform infrastructure. Therefore, this Platform Success team serves as the primary bridge between business requirements and technical execution. The team is accountable for the execution of the lifecycle of network initiatives, from initial consultation and Connectivity Platform standard-compliant design to procurement and final delivery. As the representatives and engagement team for the Connectivity Foundations and Campus products, they orchestrate cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and to the customer's satisfaction.
Job responsibilities include:
Team Member Capability and Career Development
Focuses on developing engineering team capabilities that align with the immediate project needs, goals, and function's overall vision.
Encourages team members to self-define their career journey and actively enables development opportunities that align with it.
Removes roadblocks and sets clear, achievable performance goals.
Ensures the team develops the right skills and healthy internal dynamics to meet current and future challenges.
Team Health and Sustainability
Maintains a sustainable pace of work for the team, balancing delivery goals with team well-being.
Cultivates healthy team dynamics and collaboration, ensuring psychological safety and open communication.
Removes impediments that hinder flow or morale, acting as an escalation point for the team.
Ensures team members are equipped with the necessary, relevant skills and that roles are clearly defined.
Product and Service Delivery Leadership
Responsible for co-creating the Product / Service Roadmap from a technical perspective, partnering with the Product Manager who is overall responsible.
Accountable for the team's end-to-end delivery of features as part of the product development, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and quality standards.
Sets clear focus and priorities for the team's delivery work, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps.
Actively removes impediments and roadblocks to progress, escalating when necessary to protect the team's focus.
Manages and aligns stakeholders' expectations and needs, providing regular updates on progress and risks.
Creates efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible across teams and functions.
Performance & Optimization
Defines success metrics, analyzes workforce capability trends, and identifies opportunities for optimization to achieve business goals.
Translates data into actionable insights and regularly communicates delivery performance to stakeholders and the wider team.
Identifies and implements process improvements within the team and in its interactions with other teams to boost efficiency and quality.
Financial & Resource Mgmt.
Supports the development of detailed business cases for new products or significant features.
Makes data-driven decisions on how to allocate engineering, design, and other resources to maximize impact and achieve product goals.
Manages the team's budget, including headcount, operational costs, and vendor contracts, ensuring financial responsibility.
Who you are:
Bachelor or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline.
5+ years of experience in people leadership, product/service management, program management, or a similar role, with a proven track record of building high performing teams.
2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry.
Significant experience of implementing connectivity and networking in a large enterprise and with running RFPs.
Technical and business skills:
Understanding of software development and/or service delivery methodologies
Understanding of solution, information, and process architecture
Ability to create clarity about outcomes generated by teams
Exhibits a lean & agile mindset
Leadership skills:
Exhibits servant and creative leadership (VACC) behavior
Demonstrated experience building high performing teams
Have a keen IT market focus: you are passionate about major trends for the specific discipline
Demonstrates an executive presence, strong business acumen, ability to navigate ambiguity, and manages complexity
Manages risks progressively and in a way that leads to opportunity
Enterprise mindset that can break down silos. Focus on delivery through collaboration, and bringing people together to work towards the same purpose across organizational boundaries.
Ability to empower teams and individuals to act autonomously and hold them accountable.
Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has a strong passion for innovation
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indianapolis, IN is $120,400 - $223,600. 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.
Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.
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Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Indianapolis. 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.
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