Solution Architect Supply Chain

at  Bayer

SOLUTION ARCHITECT SUPPLY CHAIN

For Digital Hub Warsaw, we are looking for:

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES (EDUCATION, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE):

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments
• Advanced understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Advanced understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• Advanced understanding of information principles and processes
• Hands-on experience in different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
• Monitors micro- and macroscopic trends in EA as well as global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution (stretch)
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and also recommends solutions for improvement (stretch)
• Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture
• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative (stretch)
• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture (stretch)
• Works closely with the product management office (PMO) or portfolio management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle
• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture
• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python (Add preferred languages based on Solution)
• Good understanding of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle (Add preferred technologies)
• Skilled in various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS (Add preferred languages)
• Sound knowledge of relevant enterprise, cloud or customer relationship management (CRM) systems (Add the name of the relevant system)
• Knowledge of various artificial intelligence/machine learning frameworks (AI/ML) (stretch) (If applicable, expand to add relevant skills)
• Data savvy with knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network and security