DevOps engineer digital trialing

Purpose

In our continuing mission to enable digital science across Crop Protection Research and Development (CP R&D) we are looking for a senior Devops engineer to support the numerous teams delivering a significant, high value and impactful transformation across the global function, Product Biology. This enables key understandings of how our new inventions and technologies deliver innovate products to the customers we serve.

You will be someone who is curious, courageous to act and through building a deep understanding of how the processes and outcomes of product biology support the creation of new Active ingredients from small chemical molecules to biologicals and new modalities of product innovation looking at soil health and bio stimulants. Creating and implementing  in collaboration with data architects and others an intentional architecture and delivery standards  roadmaps to support our existing and new applications, capabilities and shared service layers to support the business function.

Working further than Research and development with colleagues in science and IT you will support a multi million dollar investment into existing Devops teams across the core capabilities needed including creating field experiments, capturing data , creating FAIR data products and a data exploitation layer that leverages the power of AI and other digital applications from R&D and into commercial digital products

You will deeply understand DevOps best practice, architecture standards and emerging technologies and support vendor and internal teams delivering a delivery heartbeat.

Accountabilities

• Developing and maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmap for digital trialling across Syngenta and vendor development teams
• Ensuring compliance with Syngenta and industry standards and regulations
• Determining the technology system architecture and functional design needed to support and meet the domains business goals
• Defining common elements, patterns and standards to facilitate reuse across the domain
• Ensuring effective usage of IT assets (infrastructure and systems)
• Ownership and maintenance of comprehensive architecture documentation
• Generating graphic representations and abstracts of the system architecture models
• Evaluating existing IT landscape for exposure or weaknesses that could compromise performance, security or efficiency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with architectural standards
• Participating in vendor selection and management for key technology solutions
• Ensuring full adaptation of modern software engineering practices (Clean Code, GitFlow,)

Experience / Previous jobs required for the job

• 5+ yr Proven track record acting as a hands-on Solution Architect / enterprise architect with a strong foundation in Software Engineering
• Proven track record of designing and delivering of distributed systems
• Proven track record of working with large scale legacy systems
•  Excellent knowledge of architecture principles and best practices
• Strong Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strategic thinking and ability to align technology with business goals
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (AWS essential, other clouds desirable)
• Experience with AI/ML integration in enterprise systems
• Knowledge of data architecture and governance principles
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies

Experiences to be gained in the job:

• Exposure to business strategy as an entry into more strategic leadership roles
• Deep understanding of the Crop Protection R&D and digital science
• Build a authentic , trust based working relationship with sponsors, experts and managers

Qualifications

Critical knowledge and education required for the job

• University Bachelors Degree in softwaire engineering, Information technology or comparable essential
• Strong customer focus, communication, teamwork and negotiation skills
• Aware of advances in technology and science in the external world
• Act on your own with minimal guidance in a complex scientific or business sustainability environment while still ensuring full compliance with all internal and external standards
• Certifications:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• iSAQB or TOGAF Foundation
• Scrum Master Certification
• Fluency in English