Data & Analytics Specialist

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

And as the world evolves, so do we. For over 125 years, we have taken on some of the most complex challenges in healthcare.

As part of Roche Informatics’ Data Advisory & Insights team, the Data and Analytics Specialist will build and maintain trusting, working relationships with business stakeholders in a cross functional environment, understanding the analytic needs of the domain, and working in an agile product team setting fulfilling those needs. You are an experienced analytics professional with a proven track record of understanding the true needs of the business stakeholder and how to leverage data / analytic skills and partnerships to fulfill those needs. You are a team player contributing to an agile team focused on data product delivery. You are also comfortable with ambiguity, and able to thrive with minimal oversight and process.

The Opportunity:

• Transforming, testing, visualizing and documenting analytic data products
• Identify, analyze and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data & insights peers and business stakeholders to discover high impact opportunities and deliver robust solutions to enable self-service analytics
• Understand where various opportunities fit into the broader strategies and prioritize competing demands to ensure the most impactful items are delivered
• Participate as a data analyst in an agile team to deliver analytics to the business stakeholders as well as participate in user discovery sessions, iterative refinement cycles with technical team and sprint planning
• Develop high-impact data layers, user interfaces and other tools to enable self-service analytics
• Provide product ownership of data products and analytical solutions
  
  

Who you are:

• Bachelor Degree in Informatics (or equivalent) with 5-7 years of relevant experience. Experience in healthcare analytics and working with healthcare data in a regulated environment is a plus
• You have an investigative and curious mindset and easily understand business rules and application to data as well as having exceptional communication and collaborative skills
• Experience with agile methodology and working in agile teams is preferred
• You have experience working with databases for analytic solutions (Tableau, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, SQL Server) as well as being highly experienced working with data and analytic report interpretation. Knowledge on Python and/or R programming language is a plus
• You are experienced with building and maintaining semantic layers and self-service visualization technologies (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Qlik, SAP Analytics Cloud etc.) for non-technical end-user use
• You can build ETLs for self-use in your analytic solutions (Alteryx, dbt, Talend etc.) and have the ability to write complex SQL queries, ad-hoc data pipelines and familiarity with dimensional modeling / data warehouse concepts
  
  

This role is not open for relocation support

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche's truly innovative culture.

As of January 4, 2022, Roche requires all new employees who work in Canada to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on the date they take office. This requirement is a condition of employment at Roche that applies regardless of whether the position is on a Roche campus or remotely. If you have a valid reason for not being fully immunized, which is limited to certain specific medical reasons or other valid reasons protected by applicable human rights laws, you may request an exemption and / or adaptation measures regarding this vaccination requirement.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.