Data Steward – Master & Operational Data

Roche • Mississauga, ON

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Roche, we foster a culture where individuality is embraced, and personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections are encouraged. We value, accept, and respect everyone for who they are, enabling them to thrive personally and professionally. Our mission is to prevent, stop, and cure diseases and ensure universal access to healthcare for present and future generations. Join Roche, where every voice matters. The Real-World & Clinical Data Strategy team empowers better decision-making and evidence generation across Roche Product Development by leveraging clinical, operational, and real-world data to accelerate scientific progress for patients. Within Data Governance and Operations, the Master and Operational Data Team establishes the foundations for trusted, reusable, and future-ready data. As a Data Steward, you will be instrumental in ensuring key data assets are documented, governed, and accessible throughout the product development lifecycle. Your role will involve connecting data to business processes, upholding master and operational data standards, and enhancing the quality, usability, and trustworthiness of data across Roche.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Pay transparency details are provided based on the primary posting location.
• Compensation details will be provided later in the hiring process for additional locations where the role may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level