Lead Enterprise Architect

Bayer is hiring a strategic and hands-on Platform Architect to join their Observability Squad, focusing on designing and implementing enterprise-grade observability architecture across cloud and infrastructure environments.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years’ experience in IT with emphasis on systems architecture, platform engineering, or infrastructure.
• 2+ years in senior IT/architectural roles (Enterprise/Lead Architect or equivalent) with proven experience driving cross-organizational change.
• Deep expertise in cloud and infrastructure (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP experience a plus).
• Strong system design and modeling skills balancing risk, cost, and operational complexity.
• Expert knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, microservices architecture, and observability data flows.
• Proven ability to define and enforce governance, security, and compliance requirements across platforms.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD practices and tooling.
• Excellent communication skills with experience influencing senior stakeholders and building consensus.
• Track record of mentoring architects and guiding multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
• Experience applying Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken, with intercultural awareness and willingness to travel occasionally.

Platform design:

• Produce reference architectures for computer, storage, networking, and identity that support telemetry pipelines.

Establish standards & best practices:

• Create and evangelize architectural standards, telemetry schemas, naming conventions, data retention policies, and instrumentation patterns across engineering teams.

Network & system integration:

• Ensure seamless integration of observability solutions with existing network, identity, and application architectures.
• Define integration patterns and interfaces (APIs, message buses, exporters).

Network & connectivity:

• Define secure routing, peering, private connectivity, and load balancing patterns for telemetry flows.

Compute & orchestration:

• Define sizing, autoscaling, and placement strategies (Kubernetes and VMs) for ingestion and processing workloads.

IaC & deployment patterns:

• Define blueprints and CI/CD patterns for reproducible, auditable platform deployments.

Stakeholder collaboration:

• Advise enterprise architects, network, security, and SRE teams.
• Produce clear architecture artefacts and runbooks.

Governance, security & compliance:

• Ensure platform designs meet governance, regulatory, and security controls including access controls, data residency, retention, and auditability.