Lead Solution Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical care above statutory limits

Flexible benefits

Life, accident, and disability ins.

Employer-supported pension plans

Home office allowance

Company car

Job summary

Bayer is seeking a Lead Solution Architect for the Digital Hub Warsaw. You will design and implement robust IT solutions, guiding architecture across product, engineering and data teams. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership to deliver scalable, secure systems that meet business goals.

Responsibilities include end-to-end design, architecture governance, and mentoring engineers. A hybrid work model and competitive benefits are offered, with a focus on collaboration and

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on software engineering and delivery experience.
• Fluency with AI coding agents and prompt engineering.
• Knowledge of APIs, REST design and service contracts.
• Strong cloud/platform experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Security, performance, and scale considerations in architectures.
• Leadership and mentoring of engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable IT solutions aligned with strategy.
• Lead end-to-end solution design and reference architectures.
• Stay hands-on with code reviews and prototyping as needed.
• Mentor engineers; drive architectural standards across teams.
• Translate business needs into architecture decisions and docs.
• Ensure security, quality attributes, and regulatory alignment.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We're doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining 'impossible'. There are so many reasons to join us. If you're hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there's only one choice.

Lead Solution Architect

At Bayer, we are committed to transparency, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and objective reward practices in line with EU and local regulations.The minimum monthly gross compensation for this role is 25 760 PLN, with final pay determined based on objective factors such as experience, qualifications, scope of responsibility, and internal alignment.
This position is eligible forvariable pay components, such as performance-based bonuses, awarded in accordance with the applicable employee group, role scope, and compensation structure.

In addition, Bayer offers a competitive and holistic benefits package, including:

- Medical careabove statutory requirements

- Flexible benefitssupporting leisure, and well-being/sports programs

- Life, accident, and disability insurancethrough group coverage

- Employer-supported pension planswith regular company contributions

- Home office allowanceto support hybrid or remote work

- Company car provided (as a working Benefit)

Benefits may vary depending on country, role, and employment conditions.

For Digital Hub Warsaw, we are looking for:

Lead Solution Architect

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and innovative IT solutions that meet the business requirements and align with the company's strategic objectives. This role requires a deep understanding of technology stacks, architectural principles, and business processes, ensuring that solutions are efficient, secure, and sustainable.

Design and build end-to-end solutions

Lead the design of end-to-end solutions that meet business requirements and align with platform and enterprise strategy.

Maintain target-state blueprints, architecture views, integration patterns and Architecture Decision Records - recording the reasoning behind a decision, not only its outcome.

Stay hands-on: prototype, review code, and ship. Design authority in this role is earned through building, not asserted through governance.

Composable and reusable by default

Design bounded contexts and service boundaries, so capabilities are reusable across teams rather than rebuilt per initiative.

Contribute reference components, patterns and golden paths that make the right architecture the path of least resistance for delivery teams.

Recognize when not to decompose. A modular monolith that ships beats a distributed system that does not.

Apply prompt and context engineering, agentic workflows and tool orchestration as routine engineering practice.

Build and operate the engineering harness - evals, guardrails, CI gates - that makes autonomous work auditable and reversible.

Design retrieval and RAG where it earns its place, and say so when it does not.

Technical leadership across teams

Provide architectural leadership across product, engineering, data and platform teams.

Coordinate decisions where several workstreams, systems or external partners must align.

Drive consistency across the whole solution stack rather than optimizing isolated components.

Business and stakeholder translation

Work with business leaders, product managers and engineering teams to turn business priorities into solution requirements and architecture decisions.

Communicate direction, trade-offs, dependencies and risk clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Write design documents that survive review.

Quality, security and risk

Define quality attributes and non-functional requirements: performance, resilience, scalability, supportability, security, availability

Identify architectural risk, constraints and dependencies early, and develop mitigation.

Ensure compliance with security standards, governance requirements and regulatory expectations, including validated-system design and audit trail where applicable.

Model cost and apply FinOps thinking to design decisions.

Portability and technology selection

Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks and integration approaches from the approved technology portfolio.

Assess portability and lock-in explicitly. Proprietary orchestrators and cloud SDKs embedded in application code are lock-in; containers on open components are not.

Plan migrations using established patterns and decompose legacy estates without stalling delivery.

Standards, mentorship and continuous improvement

Set standards without stalling teams - the balance is the skill.

Review designs and implementations for adherence to agreed principles and target architecture.

Mentor engineers and grow architects; lead architectural discussion in the open.

Track technology movement and continuously improve architectural process and practice.

Qualifications & Competencies & Skills

Proven hands-on software engineering: you have written, reviewed and shipped production code, and still do.

Fluency with AI coding agents as everyday tooling, not as an experiment.

Prompt and context engineering; agentic workflows and tool orchestration.

APIs and contracts: REST design, versioning and backward compatibility, event contracts.

Distributed systems in practice: idempotency, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers.

Cloud and platform: containers and Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitOps ), CI/CD pipeline design.

Observability: logs, metrics, traces and SLOs - and the operational habits behind them.

Strong grounding in architectural styles and design patterns, and the judgement to pick between them.

Domain-driven Design and bounded contexts; C4 modelling for anything crossing a team.

Event-driven, serverless and managed-first design; microservices and modular monolith.

Trade-off analysis you can defend in review.

Legacy decomposition, strangler migration, multi-tenancy and high-volume ingest.

Context - you carry the business with you

Ability to analyse complex business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Excellent written and verbal communication, including to non-engineers.

Security and compliance by design: AuthN / AuthZ , OAuth2/OIDC, threat modelling, privacy, data residency.

Proven leadership: driving architectural initiatives, mentoring engineers, and setting standards teams actually adopt.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.

Works effectively and responsibly with digital technologies and AI to create value, make informed decisions and collaborate in a data-driven way. Uses digital technologies, data and AI independently in novel situations to improve outcomes and ways of working beyond own tasks, within legal, ethical, security and compliance requirements.

Engages openly across diverse stakeholders to build trust, ensure clarity and create collective ownership of outcomes. Anticipates stakeholder needs and balances differing perspectives to achieve common goals.

• Dealing with Ambiguity

Operates effectively when situations are unclear, information is incomplete or conditions change unexpectedly. Brings structure to ambiguous situations, proposes practical options to test and learn, and decides soundly with limited information.

Understands how internal and external decisions impact value generation. Reviews and evaluates financial, strategic and market factors to guide decisions and create value.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

Bayer offers the possibility of working in a hybrid model. We know how important work-life balance is, so our employees can work from home, from the office or combine both work environments. The possibilities of using the hybrid model are each time discussed with the manager.
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