Strategic Cybersecurity SME

roche· 1311 Roche SSC Americas
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📍 San Jose, Costa RicaFull time

About this role

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Let’s build a healthier future, together. 
By combining our unique strengths, we’re redefining healthcare through sustainable action and innovation. Discover what it’s like to work at Roche.

The Opportunity

This role provides strategic guidance across the organization's critical security programs and initiatives, establishing key security processes and developing enterprise-wide best practices to ensure consistency and alignment with organizational standards. The position combines hands-on oversight of high-impact projects with technical guidance for cross-functional initiatives, while maintaining quality assurance and strategic alignment across all security efforts.

Responsibilities

Accountability / Problem Solving

  • Leads comprehensive analysis of complex, strategic business problems across organizational boundaries, conducting root-cause analysis and eliciting stakeholder needs to influence sound decision-making and drive consensus through persuasive communication.

  • Demonstrates mastery in requirements and domain knowledge, providing thought leadership on unusually complex problems with innovative solutions, leading large-scale process improvement initiatives, and guiding strategic change adaptation while ensuring deliverables align with organizational objectives.

Stakeholder Management

  • Identifies and analyzes complex stakeholder networks across organizational boundaries and global teams, developing comprehensive engagement and communication plans that drive consensus on strategic vision while building and maintaining strong relationships across the organization.

  • Acts as a master negotiator and trusted advisor to leadership, navigating complex conflicts to achieve alignment and serving as a role model in collaboration and organizational trust-building.

Impact / Strategy

  • Drives significant, consistent impact across major products and domains by ensuring delivery of high-value solutions aligned with business strategy, embedding best practices, and leveraging industry trends to influence organizational strategy and foster continuous improvement.

  • Leads evaluation and implementation of optimal strategic solutions and transitions across large, complex projects spanning multiple domains, managing highly ambiguous requirements holistically while ensuring traceability and alignment with broader organizational goals.

Who you are

  • Advanced technical proficiency in Java, JavaScript, AWS (Amazon Web Services), JWT, with comprehensive knowledge of cybersecurity technologies and enterprise systems

  • Deep expertise in business strategy and systems thinking to deliver holistic, enterprise-wide security solutions.

  • Proven ability to analyze root causes, gather requirements, and evaluate strategic solutions across large organizations.

  • Skilled in building trusted relationships with senior leaders, driving consensus, and guiding strategic security decisions.

  • Strong track record of leading large-scale process improvements, driving change, and applying emerging security trends.

Preferred

  • SAP Customer Data Cloud (SAPCDC)

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

 

 

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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