Lead Architect
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Summary
Bayer is hiring a Lead Architect to lead architects and teams through a shift to AI-first, agent-enabled delivery: translating AI/emerging-tech horizon scanning into enterprise strategy and building cross-cutting capabilities. Requires deep enterprise architecture, cloud, DevOps, microservices/API expertise plus hands-on GenAI agent design and bilingual English/Chinese skills.
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONBILITIES
- Lead architects and teams through the shift to AI-first, agent-enabled ways of building and delivering
- Translate horizon scanning on AI and emerging tech into enterprise strategy, priorities, and cross-cutting capabilities
- Align senior stakeholders on long-term digital direction and accelerate responsible innovation at pace
- Support communities and chapters that spread adoption, learning, and shared practice
- Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across enterprises and seek opportunities for improvement
- Support at least one community or chapter or a combination of both
- Lead teams including enterprise architects and help them understand how to deliver the team’s objectives to meet organizational goals
- Carry out horizon scanning across the industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity
- Support successful delivery of the long-term strategy
- Take a leading role in the overall direction of business and digital capabilities
- Identify priorities for change to enable delivery at increasing pace
- Lead and influence the delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that enable change
WHO YOU ARE
- Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 12+ years experience in IT, with a focus on systems architecture, software development and IT process
- 7+ years experience in a senior IT role, preferably as an Enterprise Architect or similar leadership position
- Proficiency in IT infrastructure, including cloud computing, networking, databases, and application development
- Expert knowledge of integration patterns and practices
- Strategic thinking and ability to align IT strategy with business goals
- Ability to mentor and develop more junior architects and IT staff
- Capability to drive organizational change and foster a culture of innovation
- Experience in ensuring that IT systems meet security and regulatory requirements
- Expert understanding of DevOps practices and tools
- Extensive experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Chinese
- Strong ability to evaluate emerging technologies and assess their potential impact
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team
- Ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders
- Hands-on experience designing and architecting AI agents (e.g., orchestration patterns, tool use, memory, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows)
- AI-first mindset: able to reframe business and technology problems through the lens of intelligent automation and generative AI, not as a bolt-on feature
- Deep practical understanding of GenAI capabilities and limitations — what it can reliably deliver today, where it fails, and how to architect around uncertainty, hallucination, cost, latency, and compliance risk
- In-depth knowledge of specific technology stacks and platforms used in IT
- Expertise in API-first integration
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