Data Steward – Master & Operational Data

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The Position

Real-World & Clinical Data Strategy powers better decision-making and evidence generation across Roche Product Development, helping teams use clinical, operational and real-world data to accelerate scientific progress for patients. Within Data Governance and Operations, the Master and Operational Data Team builds the foundations that make data trusted, reusable and ready for future innovation.

As a Data Steward, you will help ensure key data assets are documented, governed and accessible across the product development lifecycle. You will connect data to business processes, support master and operational data standards, and strengthen the quality, usability and trustworthiness of data across Roche.

You will:

• Strengthen trusted data foundations by maintaining documentation across key data domains, including study operational, scientific and medical affairs data.
• Support data governance in practice through metadata standards, reference data, lineage tracking, conceptual data models and catalogue management.
• Improve data quality and reuse by contributing to lifecycle management, quality controls and metadata enrichment.
• Connect data to business context by supporting data mapping, classification and modelling linked to ways of working and processes.
• Enable FAIR data principles so data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable across teams.
• Collaborate across functions to improve visibility, accessibility and usability of critical data assets.
• Support compliance and trust by applying relevant privacy, security and regulatory expectations, including GDPR and HIPAA where appropriate.

Who You Are

You bring a thoughtful, detail-focused approach to data stewardship and enjoy turning complex data environments into clear, usable and governed assets.

You have:

• A degree, advanced qualification or equivalent practical background in Data Science, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, Information Science, Information Management or a related field.
• Experience working with data management, metadata curation, master data or data governance in a life sciences, healthcare, scientific or regulated environment.
• Familiarity with tools or approaches for data lineage, cataloguing, data quality, versioning or master data management.
• An understanding of FAIR data principles, semantic modelling and foundational data governance practices.
• The ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
• A collaborative mindset, with respect for different perspectives in a global working environment.

Preferred

• Exposure to clinical operations, Phase I–IV studies or scientific/operational data domains.
• Experience contributing to agile teams, platform implementation or data product initiatives.

Bring your curiosity, rigour and care for data quality — and help Roche build a future-ready data ecosystem that supports better science and better outcomes for patients.

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Welwyn. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

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