Lead Data Architect - Hybrid & Lakehouse AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical care above statutory

Flexible benefits supporting leisure

Life, accident, and disability ins.

Employer-supported pension plans

Home office allowance

Company car provided

Extra Paid Holidays

Job summary

Bayer in Warsaw seeks a Lead Data Architect to join the Data & AI team, shaping data solutions for scientists, analysts, and AI agents. You will lead design and implementation of GxP-validated clinical data lakehouse projects and collaborate across stakeholders in an agile environment.

The role requires 5+ years in data architecture, strong Python, Databricks expertise, and experience with data governance and security. Hybrid work with a blend of home and office presence in Warsaw is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information science, knowledge engineering, computational linguistics, data engineering, information technology, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of fit-for-purpose data solutions to store, transform, share and analyze clinical data, enabling an efficient clinical dataflow in compliance to legal and regulatory requirements, including appropriate measures to protect secret data in randomized double-blinded clinical studies in accordance to GxP.
• Collaborate closely with relevant stakeholders in an agile setup to capture, specify and address data-related requirements and dependencies to ensure a fit-for-purpose technical implementation in a healthy data ecosystem.
• Actively exchange with peers, embracing and applying best-practices to maintain a coherent, consolidated and scalable data landscape.
• Lead the design and implementation of integration patterns, FAIR data principles and semantics to enable efficient, compliant, and secure data consumption by humans, systems, and AI agents within and beyond the primary data context.
• Lead the collaboration with infrastructure experts to ensure a robust, efficient, secure and fit-for-purpose setup, leveraging infrastructure-as-code and composable architecture.
• Mentor and coach less-experienced colleagues and uphold high standards in requirements specification, engineering practices, code review, testing, and documentation.
• Actively exchange with other data-related initiatives across Pharma to maintain a comprehensive view of the data landscape and keep strategic alignment on data architecture.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Python programming

Git & CI/CD

Cloud engineering

Data governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information science, knowledge engineering, computational linguistics, data engineering, information technology, or a related field

Tools

Databricks

DBX Asset Bundles

Lakeflow

Unity Catalog

Terraform

AWS

OpenSharing/Delta Sharing

Iceberg-Sharing

ODBC

GraphQL

OData

REST

Kapitan

GitHub Actions

Job description

Bayer in Warsaw seeks a Lead Data Architect to join the Data & AI team, shaping data solutions for scientists, analysts, and AI agents. You will lead design and implementation of GxP-validated clinical data lakehouse projects and collaborate across stakeholders in an agile environment.

The role requires 5+ years in data architecture, strong Python, Databricks expertise, and experience with data governance and security. Hybrid work with a blend of home and office presence in Warsaw is offered.