Lead Architect

**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 Architect (f/m/d) for Pharma Research in full-time or part-time** Bayer is committed to turning its vision of "Health for all, Hunger for none" into a reality. As a team of innovative and forward-thinking individuals, we are dedicated to tackling some of the world's most complex problems. In our Pharma IT department, we strive to continuously enhance our existing product portfolio and develop new solutions that support and empower our scientists in Research and Development. As Lead Architect joining our interdisciplinary DevOps teams, you will have the opportunity to tackle challenging problems in a global pharma research environment and grow in alignment with our purpose. If you have a passion for developing cutting-edge software that can help cure life-threatening diseases, we welcome you to be a part of our team. **YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES** - You develop, evaluate, and maintain the IT landscape of Research and Early Development, in close alignment with stakeholders in Pharma and IT - You create the data architecture and data management strategy for the respective business domain and its IT portfolio - You design modern and secure cloud-native infrastructure for digital products that directly deliver value to our internal users in Pharma Research and Early Development - You enable multidisciplinary DevOps teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines - You actively support our architecture community within Research and Development, by further developing our architectural principals, jointly executing architectural reviews, and representing us in the wider architecture community across Bayer - You stay up to date on future innovations and technical trends and lead the continuous improvement of our IT architecture - You actively support the development of junior colleagues and new hires by sharing your expertise and experience **WHO YOU ARE** - University degree (Master or higher) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Natural Science or a related field. Ideally, you have relevant experiences in Pharma or Life Science Research - Hands-on technical skills and experience including architecture, design, software/infrastructure engineering, technical troubleshooting, networking, cloud (preferentially AWS), security, and site reliability engineering (SRE). Experience in computer system validation under GxP and knowledge of full-stack software engineering (preferentially Python and JavaScript) is a plus - Experience in designing and building POCs or MVPs, write technical position papers, solve critical design problems, or assist with domain architectural issues - Experience in the assessment of technologies and IT target architectures in an enterprise environment - Expert in up-to-date and emerging technologies, and specifically the opportunities and risks they bring - Profound knowledge and experience in agile and lean methodologies - Strong Pharma Research business acumen - Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations and to drive actions - Ability to convince teams to test out new processes and methods regularly - Strong collaboration and communication skills - Fluent in English, both written and spoken, German language knowledge is a plus **YOUR APPLICATION** This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer. **Location**: Germany : Berlin : Berlin || Germany : North Rhine Westfalia : Leverkusen || Germany : North Rhine Westfalia : Wuppertal-Aprath **Division**: Enabling Functions **Reference Code**:786569