Senior Director, Software Engineering

at  Genentech

THE POSITION

We advance science so that we all have more time with the people we love.
At Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED) we have initiated an exciting journey to bring together and further strengthen our computational talent and capabilities by forming a new, central organization - gRED Computational Sciences (gCS). gCS is on a mission to partner across the organization to realize the potential of data, technology and computational approaches that will revolutionize how targets and therapeutics are discovered and developed, ultimately enabling novel treatments for patients across the world. We stand at the beginning of an exciting journey.
The Computational Catalysts group within gCS is a diverse, curious and action-driven team at the intersection of computation, engineering and science with ambition to advance our technical excellence. The focus of the team is on partnering with the informatics and scientific communities to create a computational and data ecosystem that powers scientific discovery and accelerates decision making. We aim to modernize our ability to acquire, store, link, share, find and analyze data across the organization through scalable and integrated solutions that truly make every data point count. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, Data Solutions and Engineering this Function Tech Lead will play a key role in defining and executing the strategy for the Data Fabric for this newly created group.
The Data Solutions and Engineering group within Computational Catalyst is accountable for establishing a common Data Fabric which connects our Systems, specifically our Data Pipelines and Applications for data acquisition, collection, storage, transformation, linkage and sharing. This team strives to build delightful applications and systems for our stakeholders with a strategic mindset. The team is responsible for the end to end product lifecycle management and the work done is leveraged downstream for building key scientific insights and enabling our ML/AI workflows and models. The Senior Director of Software Engineering will closely work with Software Engineers, Product Tech/ML Ops and Function Tech Leads in their role.
The Senior Director, Software Engineering is an experienced and highly credible visionary and technical leader with the proven ability to deliver, form collaborative partnerships and foster an engaging team culture built on trust. You will be responsible and accountable for designing and driving key engineering initiatives across our Data Stack. You will deeply contribute towards building common data solutions and frameworks which can be leveraged across multiple initiatives. You will contribute towards setting standards that will be adopted across Catalysts and the broader organization. You as a highly technical Software Engineering leader will lead and have a span of control over a number of outstanding data and software engineers and will work closely with and influence Product Managers, DevOps/MLOps, Function Tech Leads who are building data solutions and applications which are modern and delight the users. You are someone who has hands-on experience building data centric workflows and applications with a strong focus on user/stakeholder centricity. You will have an understanding of how to build robust, extensible and modular applications that exemplify industry best practices, minimizing manual interventions, ensuring robustness, scalability,FAIR principles and avoiding technical debt. The solutions and applications you and your team develops will be leveraged by key stakeholders from lab scientists to Bench Scientists and ML/AI engineers. You will collaborate with leaders in other parts of the Roche Group (e.g. pRED and Product Development) to identify enterprise wide opportunities and best practices. You will help break down silos between efforts and foster collaborative efforts to accelerate common and modular applications. You are passionate about learning in general and newer technologies in specific. You are skilled and passionate about mentoring and coaching on diverse topics. You will make decisions related to technical roadmaps, solutions and capability development and will be expected to make key contributions to the overall success of gCS.

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