Lead Software Architect (m/f/d) – Product & Innovation Focus

bayoonet Aktiengesellschaft; Deutschland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

bayoonet Aktiengesellschaft is seeking a Lead Software Architect focused on product and innovation. The role entails the technical development of software solutions ensuring high-quality, maintainability, and regulatory compliance, particularly under frameworks such as the Cyber Resilience Act.

Key responsibilities include guiding architectural principles across products, identifying AI use cases, and integrating security and compliance into product design. Candidates should have extensive experience in software architecture and be proficient in both German and English.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience as a software architect responsible for complex systems.
• Very good understanding of modern software architectures and quality requirements.
• Experience in using AI technologies in software products.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for technical development of product portfolio.
• Set architectural principles and ensure maintainability and quality.
• Evaluate architecture decisions and technology deployment.
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases in products.
• Consider regulatory requirements in architectural decisions.

Skills

Software architecture

AI technologies

Regulatory compliance

Communication skills

Job description

Lead Software Architect (m/f/d) – Product & Innovation Focus

As Lead Software Architect, you will be responsible for the technical development of our product portfolio. You will ensure that our software solutions are high-quality, maintainable, regulatory resilient (e.g. Cyber Resilience Act) and at the same time innovative and efficient to develop further.

You set technological guard rails, make directional decisions with vision and translate new technologies – especially AI – into sustainable added value for our products. You combine stability with the courage to embrace change and are able to make decisions, prioritize and communicate clearly – even in the face of uncertainty.

In close cooperation with the management, product management and the CTOs of the Group, you provide our teams with orientation, security and energy in complex issues.

• Architecture & technology orientation
  • Responsibility for architectural principles and technological coherence across multiple products
  • Ensuring maintainability, quality, scalability and long-term developability
  • Evaluation of architecture decisions, technology deployment and long-term technical impact
  • Conscious balance between further development, stability and technical complexity
• Innovation & AI as a design mandate
  • Identification, evaluation and prioritization of specific AI use cases in existing and new products
  • Translation of technological trends into architectural decisions, product ideas and technical roadmaps
  • Development and establishment of AI guidelines and scalable architecture approaches
  • Active role as a driver and multiplier for innovation – you actively shape future topics instead of just managing existing solutions
• Regulatory resilience & speed
  • Consideration of regulatory requirements (e.g. Cyber Resilience Act) as a design framework for architecture and product decisions
  • Development of solutions in which security, compliance and high implementation speed are considered together
  • Integration of security, updatability, documentation and quality by design, not as a downstream obligation
• Technical Leadership & Communication
  • Sparring partner for management, product management, architects and development teams
  • Communicating complex technical contexts in an understandable, prioritized form
  • Creating clarity and security for abstract or new topics
  • Coaching & mentoring of architects with a focus on responsibility, decision-making skills and communication
  • Technical representation of BAYOOSOFT internally and externally (e.g. technical contributions, presentations, exchange formats)
• Product focus & impact
  • Clear focus on product development
  • Evaluation of customer-specific requirements with regard to reusability, scaling and sustainable mapping in the product portfolio
  • Classification of customer-specific contexts where strategically relevant impulses arise from them
  • Assuming responsibility where it is necessary for stability and further development – with the aim of anchoring this sustainably in the teams

Your profile

• Several years of experience as a software architect with responsibility for complex systems or product portfolios
• Very good understanding of modern software architectures, development processes and quality requirements
• Experience in the use of AI technologies in software products (conceptual and/or practical)
• Understanding of security-by-design approaches and regulatory frameworks
• Very good knowledge of German and English

In addition to your technical and professional expertise, you are characterized by your social skills. You are reliable, committed and flexible and have a high degree of independence and self-organization as well as the ability to work in a team.