Principal Solutions Architect

at Bayer US LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description

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.

Principal Solutions Architect

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As Bayer Crop Science's digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies like Climate FieldView and our ForGround regenerative agriculture platform, our team is a part of some of the most important advancements in ag.

Digital Farming Solutions is revolutionizing the agriculture industry with a platform and product that are helping the world's farmers sustainably increase productivity with digital tools. The Principal Solutions Architect plays a crucial strategic role for driving the architectural vision for near- and long-term needs for our technical communities. They are responsible foridentifying key industry trends and providing thought leadership and best practices that benefit the broader organization. The Principal Solutions Architect will have a keen eye for architecture, strategy, and building consensus among disparate teams, while acting as a key conduit for aligning long-term strategy with high-value, agile delivery.

The Principal Solutions Architect will additionally hold accountability to scope, plan, and deliver prioritized infrastructure projects. With a keen eye, coordinate withkey stakeholders to define concrete requirements for initiatives and work alongside Engineering partners to obtain alignment and drive deliverables.

Ownership and delivery of the Science organization's future-state strategic and architectural vision, working to define, align, and contextualize key initiatives in relation to the broader organization and create and maintain technical roadmaps and designs
Acting as the representative of the Science organization to leadership and diverse teams across Digital Farming Solutions and Bayer Crop Science to propel the Science organization's strategic vision forward while maintaining alignment between stakeholders
Driving engagement with Business Units to ensure alignment on common tooling and practices related to data science
Working closely with stakeholders to prioritize and plan delivery of proposed initiatives, collaborating to decompose stories, identify triage candidates where necessary, and review requirements with accountable/impacted teams to orchestrate successful delivery
Completing review and requirements gathering for candidate initiatives proposed by teams and identifying key risks and impacts
Orchestrating with teams to identify up/downstream dependencies, align on project success metrics and create a delivery strategy/timeline
Assist with the creation of solution designs including the technical design patterns and standards associated with projects
Decomposition of candidate initiatives and capture of individual epics/stories/subtasks in Jira. Subsequent prioritization and assignment of stories to appropriate team(s)
Facilitating triage meetings to identify and strategize delivery of work items that require accelerated intervention
Support teams and leaders across the Science technical community to review progress of key initiatives, and act as a technical and strategic advisor where applicable
Keep abreast of the rapidly changing technology landscape, to ensure that the right balance of new and emerging and current methods are applied to achievedomain outcomes for theScience organization
Creating and updating one-pagers and architecture documents and diagrams as systems evolve and change with completion of work initiatives. Ensuring knowledge-shared artifacts are updated and easily accessible across teams

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required qualifications

Masters +8years of experience or Bachelors +12yearsof experienceor Associate +14 years of experience with an excellent background of software architecture design and strategy with a fluent understanding of unique challenges presented by deploying data science and machine learning assets to live production systems
Proven experience steering strategic alignment between diverse teams to successfully deliver complex, cross-cutting initiatives to relevant internal and external stakeholders
Advanced understanding of Cloud... For full info follow application link.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans