Senior Cloud Engineer System Integration Platform

The Data, Analytics and AI Organization of the Digital Transformation Unit of Bayer Consumer Health operates a global transactional data integration backbone used to connect internal and external applications and systems into a uniform experience for customers, consumers, and employees. The platform provides composable infrastructure modules, development frameworks, CI/CD automations, and developer tooling to internal and external software engineering teams building integrations on top of the platform.

• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or similar
• Proficient knowledge of distributed systems and their challenges such as eventual consistency, horizontal scaling and parallel processing, consensus, operations and maintenance of a microservices architecture
• Good knowledge of data integration technologies and concepts such as message brokers, streaming systems, batch processing, API design and management
• 3-5 years of working experience in AWS cloud development with focus on serverless services such as AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, AWS DynamoDB, AWS API Gateway and augmenting services such as AWS CloudWatch, AWS IAM
• Experience with AWS networking services, AWS DocumentDB (MongoDB) and AWS container services are a plus
• Proficient knowledge of infrastructure as code tooling (preferred: Terraform) to automate infrastructure deployment
• Additional coding skills such as shell scripting for task automation are a plus
• 2-3 years of experience of software development with JavaScript/ECMAScript (preferred: server-side development with NodeJS)
• Good knowledge of the GitHub ecosystem including the core VCS, GitHub Actions for CI/CD and working with tickets/issues and pull requests
• Problem solving and analysis skills, combined with profound business judgement as well as good documentation and communication skills (active listening, consulting, challenging)
• Intercultural awareness and willingness to travel from time to time
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

• Contribute to platform roadmap together with Enterprise and Integration Architects, derive requirements for missing capabilities and actively shape the future of the platform
• Plan, design and implement capabilities on Amazon Web Services and/or the GitHub ecosystem based on derived requirements in line with security guidelines and non-functional requirements like cost efficiency, elasticity and scalability, maintainability, developer experience and documentation guidelines
• Engage and consult with software engineering teams building integrations on the platform on design, best practices and integration patterns
• Document and share newly built capabilities within the corporate software engineering community
• Observe and assess platform compliance and implement solutions to ensure platform operations within compliance guidelines such as security or regulatory aspects
• Engage with technology and implementation partners to overcome issues if required
• Engage with central cloud teams, network and security teams, cyber security teams to overcome issues if required and follow company best practices