Engineering Manager - Multicloud Cloud Platform Team Lead

About the role

Roche is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Roche Cloud Platform (RCP) Multicloud team in Madrid. The team provides robust, secure and scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform services across multiple cloud providers, empowering Roche's engineering and product teams to deliver healthcare and pharmaceutical solutions efficiently and safely. The manager focuses on team capability development, delivery leadership and performance and optimization.

Key responsibilities

• Develop team capabilities aligned with the function's vision, help members define their own career paths and remove roadblocks while setting clear performance goals
• Maintain a sustainable pace of work, healthy team dynamics and psychological safety, and act as an escalation point for impediments
• Co-create the product/service roadmap from a technical perspective with the Product Manager and ensure end-to-end delivery of features against the roadmap and quality standards
• Manage stakeholder expectations, provide regular progress and risk updates, and create efficiencies across teams
• Define success metrics, analyze workforce capability trends and communicate delivery performance to stakeholders
• Identify and implement process improvements and support business cases for new products or features
• Manage the team's budget, including headcount, operational costs and vendor contracts

Required profile

• 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
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Business or IT
• Lean and agile mindset, executive presence, strong business acumen and ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Ability to empower teams to act autonomously and hold them accountable

Required skills

• Strong expertise in multicloud architecture, cloud security standards and governance across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP
• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems management, cloud-native infrastructure and enterprise scalability
• Understanding of software development and service delivery methodologies and of solution, information and process architecture