Team Lead Engineering Remote Actions

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The Position

As an Engineering Manager you will focus on capabilities development of your team members that align with the function’s vision. You will encourage your team to self-define their career journey and seek ways to enable development opportunities in the direction of the journey. You will support them in removing roadblocks and by setting focus in their performance management. You make sure to develop your team with the right skills, healthy dynamics and a sustainable pace. You support the software and/or service delivery as a leader setting focus, removing impediments, managing stakeholders and creating efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible. 

Workforce Enablement (WE) is the home for employee facing products, services, and experiences within RDT. We deliver digital tools, drive adoption, and provide the support necessary to enable the entire workforce, wherever they are, every single day. The Team Lead Remote Actions is part of Remote Enablement and, together with the team, is accountable for delivering proactive and preventive support through the execution of remote actions across the environment. The role ensures that insights from monitoring, analytics, and service data are translated into timely remote interventions that prevent incidents, reduce disruptions, and maintain employee productivity. The role leads the planning and execution of remote actions that resolve issues, optimize device and workplace performance, and improve user experience without requiring on-site support. It establishes standardized methods, safeguards, and governance for remote interventions, ensuring actions are secure, compliant, and minimally intrusive. Using insights, trends, and feedback, the role drives continuous improvement in preventive support and contributes to an AI-first, proactive support model.

This RDT leader is accountable for the people, budget, technologies, and services required to deliver a high quality offering for employees.

You will be:

• Team Member Capability and Career Development : Focuses on developing engineering team capabilities that align with the immediate project needs and goals and function's overall vision. Encourages team members to self-define their career journey and actively enables development opportunities that align with it. Removes roadblocks and sets clear, achievable performance goals. Ensures the team develops the right skills and healthy internal dynamics to meet current and future challenges.

• Team Health and Sustainability : Maintains a sustainable pace of work for the team, balancing delivery goals with team well-being. Cultivates healthy team dynamics and collaboration, ensuring psychological safety and open communication. Removes impediments that hinder flow or morale, acting as an escalation point for the team. Ensures team members are equipped with the necessary, relevant skills and that roles are clearly defined.

• Product and Service Delivery Leadership : Responsible for co-creating the Product / Service Roadmap from a technical perspective, partnering with the Product Manager who is overall responsible. Accountable for the team's end-to-end delivery of features as part of the product development, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and quality standards. Sets clear focus and priorities for the team's delivery work, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps. Actively removes impediments and roadblocks to progress, escalating when necessary to protect the team's focus. Manages and aligns stakeholders' expectations and needs, providing regular updates on progress and risks. Creates efficiencies in collaboration wherever possible across teams and functions.

• Performance & Optimization : Defines success metrics, analyzes workforce capability trends, and identifies opportunities for optimization to achieve business goals. Translates data into actionable insights and regularly communicates delivery performance to stakeholders and the wider team. Identifies and implements process improvements within the team and in its interactions with other teams to boost efficiency and quality.

Financial & Resource Mgmt : Supports the development of detailed business cases for new products or significant features. Makes data-driven decisions on how to allocate engineering, design, and other resources to maximize impact and achieve product goals. Manages the team's budget, including headcount, operational costs, and vendor contracts, ensuring financial responsibility.

​Who you are

• 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; 2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry

• Bachelor or advanced degree, Business or IT specification ; Technical & business skills. Understanding of software development and/or service delivery methodologies. Understanding of solution, information and process architecture

• Ability to create clarity about outcomes generated by teams. Exhibits a lean & agile mindset; Leadership skills (where applicable) ; Exhibits servant and creative leadership (VACC) behavior

• Demonstrated experience building high performing teams. Have a keen IT market focus: you are passionate about major trends for the specific discipline. Demonstrates an executive presence, strong business acumen, ability to navigate ambiguity, and manages complexity. Manages risks progressively and in a way that leads to opportunity

• Enterprise mindset that can break down silos. Focus on delivery through collaboration, and bringing people together to work towards the same purpose across organizational boundaries. Ability to empower teams and individuals to act autonomously and hold them accountable. Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has a strong passion for innovation

• Proactive & Preventive Support Management Ability to design and lead proactive support practices that prevent incidents and minimize user disruption. Remote Operations & Endpoint Management Experience executing and governing remote actions across devices and digital workplace environments in a secure and scalable way. Data-Driven Decision Making Capability to interpret insights, alerts, and analytics to trigger timely and effective remote interventions. Automation & AI Enablement Understanding of automation and AI-driven triggers that enable predictive and preventive support actions. Risk, Security & Compliance Awareness Knowledge of safeguards, access controls, and compliance considerations for performing remote actions on end-user devices.

 

 

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Petaling Jaya. 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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.