Lead AI-Native Solution Architect (Hybrid/Remote)

Bayer; Województwo mazowieckie; Hybrid; PLN 262,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work option

Home office allowance

Company car

Extra paid holidays

Medical care

Flexible benefits

Pension plan

Life insurance

Job summary

Bayer is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to design and implement robust, scalable IT solutions aligned with strategic objectives. You will lead architectural decisions across product, engineering and data teams, balancing business priorities with technical risk and security.

A hybrid work model is available, including home-office support and a competitive benefits package. The role requires hands-on software engineering, expertise in AI tooling, cloud platforms, and strong communication to

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on software engineering with production code
• Fluent with AI coding agents as everyday tooling
• Prompt and context engineering; agentic workflows and tool orchestration
• APIs and contracts: REST design, versioning and backward compatibility
• Distributed systems concepts: idempotency, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers
• Cloud and platform: containers and Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines
• Observability: logs, metrics, traces and SLOs, plus operational discipline

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end solutions that meet business requirements
• Maintain target-state blueprints, architecture views and integration patterns
• Stay hands-on: prototype, review code, and ship; Exhibit design authority via delivery
• Design bounded contexts and service boundaries for reusability
• Contribute reference components, patterns, and golden paths for delivery teams
• Recognize when not to decompose; favor modular monoliths
• Provide architectural leadership across product, engineering, data and platform teams
• Translate business priorities into solution requirements and architecture decisions
• Ensure quality, security, and risk with defined non-functional requirements
• Model cost and apply FinOps thinking to design decisions

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

AI coding agents

Prompt engineering

APIs and contracts

Distributed systems

Cloud & Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Bayer is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to design and implement robust, scalable IT solutions aligned with strategic objectives. You will lead architectural decisions across product, engineering and data teams, balancing business priorities with technical risk and security.

A hybrid work model is available, including home-office support and a competitive benefits package. The role requires hands-on software engineering, expertise in AI tooling, cloud platforms, and strong communication to