At Climate, our mission is to use technologies to enhance the sustainability and security of our global food value chain. Using field-verified data science models, Climate is shaping the future of sustainable agriculture across 180 million acres worldwide and counting. As the digital farming arm of Bayer Crop Science, we have the benefits and resources of an established organization while offering employees the opportunity to deliver significant individual impact alongside some of the brightest minds in life sciences.

Grounded in our vision, ‘Health for all, Hunger for none’, our diverse team spends their days solving the world’s most pressing challenges through sheer curiosity and dedication. In our learning-oriented and flexible environment, you can find us collaborating in a hybrid model that mixes on-site and remote work.

Our LIFE values—leadership, integrity, flexibility, and efficiency—and our unique focus on health and nutrition demand that we create value for all stakeholders—today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. If you’re hungry to build a meaningful career helping empower farmers with sustainable digital farming systems, keep reading!

The Opportunity

Climate is revolutionizing the agriculture industry with a platform and product that are helping the world’s farmers sustainably increase productivity with digital tools. The Solutions Architect plays a crucial strategic role for driving the future state architectural vision for near and long term needs for Science and Research Data Engineering (RDE). They are responsible for identifying key industry trends and providing thought leadership and best practices that benefit the broader Climate organization. With a keen eye for architecture, strategy, and building consensus among disparate teams, the Solutions architect acts as a key conduit for aligning long-term strategy with high-value, agile delivery. 

The Solutions Architect will additionally hold accountability for Science to scope, plan, and deliver prioritized infrastructure projects. The Solutions Architect will coordinate with Science stakeholders to define concrete requirements for Research Data Engineering (RDE) initiatives and work alongside Portfolio Ops to obtain alignment and drive delivery from our Engineering partners.

What You’ll Do

• Ownership and delivery of Science’s future-state strategic and architectural vision, working to define, align, and contextualize key initiatives in relation to the broader organization 
• Acting as a liaison between leadership and diverse teams to propel Science’s strategic vision forward while maintaining alignment between stakeholders
• Working closely with Portfolio Ops 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
• Responsible for upkeep, review, and operation of Research Data Engineering’s work intake process

• Key Responsibilities Include:
  • 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
  • Decomposition of candidate initiatives and capture of individual epics/stories/subtasks in Jira. Subsequent prioritization and assignment of stories to appropriate team(s)
  • Facilitating weekly triage meetings to identify and strategize delivery of work items that require accelerated intervention 

• Attending weekly meetings with teams and leaders across Research Data Engineering, Engineering, and Modeling to review progress of key initiatives, and act as a technical and strategic advisor where applicable
• 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 

About You

What You’ll Need

• Masters + 6 years of experience or Bachelors + 8 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 facilitating strategic alignment between diverse teams to successfully deliver complex, cross-cutting initiatives to relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Strong understanding of Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, GCP), Data Warehouse and Data Lake Architectures with relevant comprehension of the ingestion of multiple types of data
• Advanced knowledge and experience working with MLOps and Data Science pipelines, Gitlab CI/CD and version control, and continuous orchestration and containerized deployment frameworks (Kubernetes, Docker)

Nice To Haves

• Possess excellent prioritization, contextualization, and interpersonal skills with a strategic reflective thinking mindset to understand the impacts, limitations, and dependencies of our data
• Experience with Python, R, and JVM languages (Java, Scala) with Data Science and Machine Learning libraries: Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, and Py Torch
• Experience working with Geospatial Data, Libraries, and Technology for dependencies. 
• Technical depth and experience with modeling may be beneficial to help facilitate and coalesce business and technical requirements into a specific plan of action to the various Science and Engineering teams that are accountable to delivering and implementing functionality
• Strong experience in data science lifecycle management with an appreciation from the initial data artifact into a completed model
• Strong experience with Code Review and Optimization to work with automation and tooling teams
• Experience with Domino Labs, AWS Sagemaker, JupyterLabs, and Vertex AI

What We Offer

• Base salary estimated range between $137,338 - $214,474annually, depending on the hiring location. You may also be offered bonuses, RSUs cash equivalent, or commission.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, as well as a Life Solutions Plan covering mental health benefits
• Industry leading 401K match of up to 10%
• Discounted access to Employee Share Purchase Plan program
• Professional growth opportunities including up to $10,000 college tuition reimbursement, access to upskilling platform, leadership training, mentoring and coaching programs, and short-term assignments (domestic and international)

Belonging and Accommodations

At Climate, we strive to create inclusive experiences for candidates and employees alike in which a diverse set of perspectives and voices are represented. If this role sounds exciting to you but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we actively pursue ways to celebrate our differences and don’t discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex ML (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at [email protected]. 

Learn more about our team and mission: https://climate.com/careers

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