Principal Enterprise Data Architect

## Principal Enterprise Data Architect Apply locations:
Welwyntime type:
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August 14, 2026 (17 days left to apply) job requisition :
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
** Job Description
** The Principal Data Architect, Information Architect, and Lead Data Modeler drives the strategic vision, structural design, and semantic definition of the organization’s enterprise data ecosystem. This role bridges the gap between high-level business strategy and technical execution, leading the design of scalable data architectures, comprehensive information blueprints, and robust enterprise data models.

As a Principal Data Architect, you will champion data democratization, mentor junior architects and modelers, drive cross-functional alignment on data standards, and act as a primary technical advisor to senior leadership on modernizing our data landscape for analytics, AI, and operational excellence.
** Job Responsibilities
** Data Architecture:
Leads the definition and deployment of target-state enterprise data architectures, cloud data platforms, and data integration strategies.
* Information Architecture:
Establishes the enterprise-wide business glossary, conceptual data blueprints, and taxonomy/ontology frameworks to ensure a unified understanding of data across the business.
* Data Modeling:
Oversees the creation and maintenance of enterprise conceptual,  logical and physical data models
* Mentorship:
Oversees and mentors junior data architects, modelers, and engineers within the team.

Accountability / Problem Solving
* Addresses highly complex structural and data integration issues across legacy, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
* Resolves semantic ambiguity and structural conflicts across diverse business units to create a cohesive, single source of truth.
* Ensures data structures are optimized for performance, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

Stakeholder Management
* Liaises directly with senior leadership, product owners, and business analysts to translate business strategy into technical data requirements.
* Guides and directs engineering, application, and analytics teams on structural compliance, modeling standards, and architectural patterns.

Impact / Strategy
* Leads high-impact infrastructure and modeling projects that significantly shape the organization’s long-term data capabilities.
* Develops long-term strategies for data minimization, retention-by-design, and decoupled data sharing.

Complexity / (Product Size)
* Manages enterprise-level data models and architecture systems, and real-time streaming pipelines.
* Designs and implements advanced, reusable data patterns that scale frictionlessly across the organization.

Business / Technical Ability
* Acts as an expert in modern data technologies, cloud infrastructure, and advanced data modeling methodologies.
* Demonstrates a deep understanding of how data structures impact downstream AI/ML, advanced analytics, and business intelligence.
** Qualifications
* *** Education / Experience
*** Extensive

Experience:

Leading the development, continuous improvement, and execution of complex enterprise data architectures and data modeling initiatives in a large-scale corporate environment.
* Proven Track Record:
Architecting, deploying, and optimizing enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, and transactional databases.
* Framework Mastery:
Demonstrated experience implementing data frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, DAMA-DMBOK) and modern paradigms like Data Mesh.
* Project Leadership:
Proven history of leading high-impact migration, modernization, or master data management (MDM) projects that shape overarching corporate data policies.
** Technical & Business Skills
*** Data…