Lead AI Technology Consultant

About the role

Roche is looking for a Lead AI Technology Consultant in its Digital Technology organisation, which supports Legal & Compliance and Group Communications. The consultant acts as a go-to expert for stakeholders, combining AI technical leadership, business consulting and end-to-end delivery, and leads cross-functional AI teams on complex, high-impact products. The role sits in a matrix organisation and covers Legal, Compliance, Group Communications, Internal Audit and Transparency / Transfer of Value reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional AI delivery teams in a matrix organisation, setting technical and delivery expectations and coordinating architects, engineers, data scientists and analysts.
• Take end-to-end accountability for technical delivery, from discovery and solution design through development, deployment and ongoing operations, and coordinate maintenance, monitoring, incident resolution and continuous improvement.
• Act as an AI advisor to senior stakeholders and executives, evaluate use cases, develop business cases and support adoption and measurement of benefits.
• Influence domain strategy by shaping product roadmaps and workforce strategies, and coach and mentor colleagues.
• Lead complex, high-visibility AI initiatives, including system risk assessments, data classification and approvals, and contribute architecture descriptions, data flows and risk documentation with security, privacy and compliance specialists.
• Guide generative AI, agent orchestration, workflow automation and system integration, including evaluation, monitoring and human oversight, without acting as the team's primary developer or code reviewer.

Required profile

• 8+ years of consultancy experience, including 5+ years in life sciences/pharma or the supported business function.
• Proven track record of leading enterprise AI solution architecture and delivery from concept through production deployment and operation.
• Experience combining technical direction, business consulting and multidisciplinary team leadership.
• Excellent stakeholder management, business consulting and facilitation skills, and fluent professional English.

Required skills

• Generative AI application design, cloud architecture and API integration.
• Agile technical delivery, backlog management and architectural decision-making.
• AI evaluation, quality assurance, observability, production monitoring, security, privacy and responsible AI.