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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.\nLead Solution Architect\nAt 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.\nThis position is eligible for variable pay components, such as performance-based bonuses, awarded in accordance with the applicable employee group, role scope, and compensation structure.\nIn addition, Bayer offers a competitive and holistic benefits package, including:\n- Medical care above statutory requirements\n- Flexible benefits supporting leisure, and well-being/sports programs\n- Life, accident, and disability insurance through group coverage\n- Employer-supported pension plans with regular company contributions\n- Home office allowance to support hybrid or remote work\n- Company car provided (as a working Benefit)\n- Extra Paid Holidays\nBenefits may vary depending on country, role, and employment conditions.\nFor Digital Hub Warsaw, we are looking for:\nLead Solution Architect\nThe 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.\nKey Responsibilities Outputs\nDesign and build end-to-end solutions\nLead the design of end-to-end solutions that meet business requirements and align with platform and enterprise strategy.\n\nMaintain target-state blueprints, architecture views, integration patterns and Architecture Decision Records - recording the reasoning behind a decision, not only its outcome.\n\nStay hands-on: prototype, review code, and ship. Design authority in this role is earned through building, not asserted through governance.\n\nComposable and reusable by default\nDesign bounded contexts and service boundaries, so capabilities are reusable across teams rather than rebuilt per initiative.\n\nContribute reference components, patterns and golden paths that make the right architecture the path of least resistance for delivery teams.\n\nRecognize when notto decompose. A modular monolith that ships beats a distributed system that does not.\n\nAI-native engineering\nApply prompt and context engineering, agentic workflows and tool orchestration as routine engineering practice.\n\nBuild and operate the engineering harness - evals, guardrails, CI gates - that makes autonomous work auditable and reversible.\n\nDesign retrieval and RAG where it earns its place, and say so when it does not.\n\nTechnical leadership across teams\nProvide architectural leadership across product, engineering, data and platform teams.\n\nCoordinate decisions where several workstreams, systems or external partners must align.\n\nDrive consistency across the whole solution stack rather than optimizing isolated components.\n\nBusiness and stakeholder translation\nWork with business leaders, product managers and engineering teams to turn business priorities into solution requirements and architecture decisions.\n\nCommunicate direction, trade-offs, dependencies and risk clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.\n\nWrite design documents that survive review.\n\nQuality, security and risk\nDefine quality attributes and non-functional requirements: performance, resilience, scalability, supportability, security, availability\n\nIdentify architectural risk, constraints and dependencies early, and develop mitigation.\n\nEnsure compliance with security standards, governance requirements and regulatory expectations, including validated-system design and audit trail where applicable.\n\nModel cost and apply FinOps thinking to design decisions.\n\nPortability and technology selection\nEvaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks and integration approaches from the approved technology portfolio.\n\nAssess portability and lock-in explicitly. Proprietary orchestrators and cloud SDKs embedded in application code are lock-in; containers on open components are not.\n\nPlan migrations using established patterns and decompose legacy estates without stalling delivery.\n\nStandards, mentorship and continuous improvement\nSet standards without stalling teams - the balance is the skill.\n\nReview designs and implementations for adherence to agreed principles and target architecture.\n\nMentor engineers and grow architects; lead architectural discussion in the open.\n\nTrack technology movement and continuously improve architectural process and practice.\n\nQualifications & Competencies & Skills\n\nEngineering - you build\nProven hands-on software engineering: you have written, reviewed and shipped production code, and still do.\n\nFluency with AI coding agents as everyday tooling, not as an experiment.\n\nPrompt and context engineering; agentic workflows and tool orchestration.\n\nAPIs and contracts: REST design, versioning and backward compatibility, event contracts.\n\nDistributed systems in practice: idempotency, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers.\n\nCloud and platform: containers and Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitOps), CI/CD pipeline design.\n\nObservability: logs, metrics, traces and SLOs - and the operational habits behind them.\n\nArchitecture - you design across boundaries\nStrong grounding in architectural styles and design patterns, and the judgement to pick between them.\n\nDomain-Driven Design and bounded contexts; C4 modelling for anything crossing a team.\n\nEvent-driven, serverless and managed-first design; microservices andmodular monolith.\n\nTrade-off analysis you can defend in review.\n\nLegacy decomposition, strangler migration, multi-tenancy and high-volume ingest.\n\nContext - you carry the business with you\nAbility to analysecomplex business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication, including to non-engineers.\n\nSecurity and compliance by design: AuthN/AuthZ, OAuth2/OIDC, threat modelling, privacy, data residency.\n\nProven leadership: driving architectural initiatives, mentoring engineers, and setting standards teams actually adopt.\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.\n\nCompetencies:\nDigital Fluency\nWorks effectively and responsibly with digital technologies and AI to create value, make informed decisions and collaborate in a data-driven way. 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