Bayer

Lead Solution Architect

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Warsaw, PolandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and lead end-to-end solutions aligned with business, platform, and enterprise strategy.
  • Maintain target-state architecture blueprints, architecture views, integration patterns, and Architecture Decision Records.
  • Prototype, review code, and ship production software while providing architectural authority across teams.
  • Define bounded contexts, service boundaries, reusable components, reference patterns, and golden paths.
  • Apply prompt and context engineering, agentic workflows, tool orchestration, retrieval, RAG, evaluations, guardrails, and CI gates.
  • Provide architectural leadership across product, engineering, data, and platform teams and coordinate cross-workstream decisions.
  • Translate business priorities into solution requirements and architecture decisions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Define quality attributes and non-functional requirements covering performance, resilience, scalability, supportability, security, and availability.
  • Identify and mitigate architectural risks, constraints, dependencies, compliance requirements, and regulatory concerns.
  • Evaluate technologies and integration approaches, assess portability and lock-in, and plan legacy migrations.
  • Set architecture standards, review implementations, mentor engineers and architects, and improve architectural practices continuously.

Requirements

  • Proven hands-on software engineering experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
  • Fluency with AI coding agents, prompt and context engineering, agentic workflows, and tool orchestration.
  • Experience with APIs and contracts, including REST design, versioning, backward compatibility, and event contracts.
  • Practical distributed-systems knowledge including idempotency, retries, backpressure, and circuit breakers.
  • Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, GitOps, and cloud-platform design.
  • Knowledge of observability through logs, metrics, traces, and SLOs.
  • Strong grounding in architectural styles and design patterns, including Domain-Driven Design, bounded contexts, and C4 modeling.
  • Experience with event-driven, serverless, managed-first, microservices, and modular-monolith architectures.
  • Ability to perform trade-off analysis, legacy decomposition, strangler migrations, multi-tenancy, and high-volume ingest design.
  • Ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Knowledge of security and compliance by design, including AuthN/AuthZ, OAuth2/OIDC, threat modeling, privacy, and data residency.
  • Proven leadership in driving architectural initiatives, mentoring engineers, and establishing adopted standards.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Benefits

  • Minimum monthly gross compensation of 25 760 PLN, with variable pay components such as performance-based bonuses.
  • Medical care above statutory requirements.
  • Flexible benefits supporting leisure, well-being, and sports programs.
  • Group life, accident, and disability insurance.
  • Employer-supported pension plans with regular company contributions.
  • Home office allowance and hybrid work options combining home and office work.
  • Company car provided as a working benefit.
  • Extra paid holidays.
  • Position based in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
Bayer

About Bayer

10,000+ employees

Bayer is a global life-sciences company that develops and sells prescription pharmaceuticals, consumer health brands (including Aspirin), and agricultural seeds, traits, and crop-protection products, plus digital farming tools, for patients, consumers, and farmers. It is a public company founded in 1863 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. Bayer acquired Monsanto in 2018, making Crop Science one of its three core businesses alongside Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health.

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