Tech Lead/Solutions Architect, Data Platform

The Role:

Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team that's revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology, with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases.

As an employee, you'll be part of a continually growing organization, working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide, contributing to global health initiatives.

Moderna's commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience, with the potential to make a significant impact on patients' lives worldwide.

Moderna is solidifying its presence within our international business services hub in Warsaw, Poland, a city renowned for its rich scientific and technological heritage. This hub provides critical functions, meeting the growing demand of Moderna’s global business operations. We're inviting professionals from around the world to join our mission and contribute to the future of mRNA medicines.​

This is a career-defining opportunity to serve as the technical anchor of Moderna’s cloud-native enterprise data platform. As Tech Lead / Solution Architect, you’ll take charge of driving the architectural strategy, design, and hands-on leadership for self-service data platform capabilities across more than 16 business domains. Your work will directly impact the scalability, accessibility, and governance of Moderna’s data infrastructure—empowering cross-functional teams to deliver life-changing mRNA solutions faster and more effectively.

You will work at the intersection of platform engineering, enterprise architecture, and business teams—shaping a data platform that fuels innovation, ensures security and compliance, and continuously evolves to meet emerging enterprise needs. This role is an individual contributor position, based in Warsaw, Poland.

What You’ll Do:

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Architecting and leading the implementation of self-service platform capabilities across ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption layers.

• Driving the adoption of modern data stack technologies and architecture patterns including data mesh and lakehouse.

• Partnering with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and product managers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

• Setting and enforcing enterprise-wide standards for access control, observability, data quality, and cataloging.

• Defining reusable architectural patterns and owning comprehensive documentation of platform architecture.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Providing hands-on technical mentorship to software engineers, platform developers, and data engineers.

• Collaborating with security, enterprise architecture, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with broader policies and technical standards.

• Evaluating emerging data technologies to enhance platform scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Ensuring compliance with enterprise data privacy and regulatory requirements, including GxP.

• Championing best practices in automation, DevOps, and engineering excellence throughout the data platform lifecycle.

The key Moderna Mindsets you’ll need to succeed in the role:

• We digitize everywhere possible using the power of code to maximize our impact on patients.
  This mindset is central to this role—your work will accelerate Moderna’s ability to automate and scale how we access and process data across domains, driving digital transformation across our global enterprise.

• We behave like owners. The solutions we’re building go beyond any job description.
  As a systems thinker and architectural leader, you'll be expected to take full ownership of solutions from strategy to execution, advocating for reusability, performance, and enterprise value at every stage.

What You’ll Need (Basic Qualification):

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on designing and implementing scalable data architectures. Proven expertise in architecting end-to-end data solutions on AWS

• Background in architecting and leading self-service data platform capabilities

• Deep understanding of Data Mesh, data lakehouse architecture

• Hands-on experience with data services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, as well as proficiency in Python, SQL, and dbt

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern DevOps practices

• Experience leading teams or mentoring junior engineers.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualification):

• Experience with data governance frameworks, lineage, cataloging, and metadata management

• Familiarity with data privacy, compliance, and security best practices.

• Prior experience working in a highly collaborative environment with product, data science, and analytics teams.

What a Day Looks Like:

• Start the day with a cross-functional stand-up to sync with engineers, product managers.

• Review architectural proposals, provide technical guidance to engineers, and troubleshoot design issues.

• Collaborate with stakeholders on new data initiatives—reviewing use cases, proposing scalable design patterns, and aligning on implementation plans.

• Participate in code reviews, data model reviews, and peer design discussions to ensure alignment with platform strategy.

• Draft and review architectural diagrams and design documents, platform roadmaps, and reusable design artifacts.

• Meet with enterprise security or governance teams to ensure compliance and data integrity across domains.

•  Evaluate or implement tools like monitoring frameworks, observability, or data quality checks.

• Engage in platform optimization efforts (performance tuning, cost management, etc.)

• Stay updated with the latest in the data ecosystem and assess feasibility of new tools or approaches.

At Moderna, we believe that when you feel your best, you can do your best work.  That’s why our global benefits and well-being resources are designed to support you—at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

• Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
• Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
• Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
• Family planning and adoption benefits
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investments
• Location-specific perks and extras!

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.  

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities. 

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S. 

As we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact. 

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine, we invite you to visit modernatx.com/careers to learn more about our current opportunities. 

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free work environment. 

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply! 

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best. 

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodation or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at leavesandaccommodations@modernatx.com. 

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