Domain Architect - Sites & Services

About the role

The Domain Architect for Sites & Services is a senior role within the SPG (Strategy, Portfolio & Governance) Enterprise Architecture Business Partnering Functions team. It connects the SPG organization with the global Sites, SHE & Sustainability function, focusing on Sites, and reports to the Head of Enterprise Architecture Business Partnering Functions with a dotted line to Sites leadership. In Roche's federated Roche Digital Technology model, you orchestrate the Sites architecture network, driving governance, strategy and coherent technology roadmaps.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the main architectural liaison between SPG and Sites, aligning real estate priorities with multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Orchestrate the global architecture network across regional sites, enabling embedded domain and solution architects to follow shared enterprise principles.
• Define technology guardrails and non-functional requirements, including IoT network security, physical access control resilience and operational data privacy.
• Steer delivery of key initiatives such as smart building deployments, connected workplace technologies and real estate portfolio rationalization.
• Develop domain architecture deliverables such as Facility Management capability maps, target-state architectures and reference blueprints using the ArchiMEDES toolchain.
• Embed architectural insights into investment decisions, promote platform reuse and reduce technical debt across global sites.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor solutions such as digital twins for buildings and advanced IoT facility ecosystems.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, Computer Science, Architecture or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience as a senior Domain or Enterprise Architect in a complex, matrixed or federated environment.
• Deep knowledge of the Sites domain, with experience in corporate real estate, facility management, physical security or building management systems.
• Ability to influence federated teams of architects without direct reporting authority, and to communicate complex technical concepts to senior leadership.

Required skills

• Technical architecture design, including capability modeling, target-state blueprints and roadmap alignment.
• IoT ecosystems, smart building platforms, cloud architectures and connected workplace applications.
• ArchiMEDES toolchain.