Data Architect - (1802855) Description About Syngenta: Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities. About this Job: Along with the Digital Data team, collaborations and partnerships deliver the next generation data platform for Syngenta. As part of the Syngenta Digital Data team, the role enables integration of data sources with next generation approaches and technologies across functional boundaries and enables researchers and decision makers to solve ever more complex problems and make decisions that impact business outcomes. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: - Architecture of Syngenta ontologies to support our data ecosystem and integrate business data. External data ontologies will be integrated as needed
- Design and own the Architecture Principles, Standards and Guidelines for Ontologies following Industry best practice
- Contributes to topologies and vocabularies by mapping metadata, enabling linked data and mining for data both internally and externally
- Develop, manage, integrate and map ontologies and metadata schemas for organizing and enriching content assets
- Contribute to data integration and mapping efforts to harmonize taxonomy from multiple domains and incorporate metadata into topical, named entity, and geographic ontologies
- Contribute to the architecture of a unified, industrial strength scheme for existing and future data and advise on the development of use cases
- Identify and build excellent partnerships with external collaborators and vendors
- Be the expert representative on Ontology and Meta data matters in the Architecture Design Authority
- Play a leadership role in a network of data professionals
- Serve as an ambassador for data standards, data access and integration within the company
- Represent Syngenta in ontology communities
- Lead ontology related projects and improvement initiatives within DDA, and Digital and guide the business as required
- Influence technology investment and implementation to support integrated ontology management
- Maintain and update data and models according to industry best practice
- Specify mappings between different ontologies
- Designing tools for ontology exploration
- Designing a data quality strategy and implementation plan
- Implementation of the data quality strategy
- Curating, organizing and classifying data with appropriate ontologies
- Understand and adhere to industry standards
- Develop and implement Syngenta ontology standards
Qualifications Critical knowledge • Ability to define strategy and requirements • Know how to define a metadata architecture • Know how to create a meta model • Experience in applying metadata standards • Able to manage metadata stores • Creation and maintenance of metadata ability • Know approaches to integrate metadata • Ability to work with others to distribute and deliver metadata • Know how to query and analyze metadata • Experience in analyzing and using metadata repository management tools • Understanding of data lineage • Understanding requirements of metadata for big data ingest • Ability to evaluate and write metadata standards and guidelines • Ability to design appropriate KPIs that speak to business success Critical experience • MSc or PhD in information science related discipline, computer science or equivalent experience • Experience working in multiple domains such as Life Sciences, Commercial, Supply Chain is a plus • At least 3 to 5 years of experience working in an information architecture environment, with at least 2 years + in advanced metadata and data management technologies • Experience with ontology development and best practice • Strong understanding of system development lifecycle, project management approaches (especially Agile) and requirements design and testing techniques • Ability to quickly understand needs of Syngenta business and strategic imperatives in order to design ontologies to support these Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities • Very strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to present new ideas with confidence • Ability to communicate with a wide range of people across geography and discipline, both internally and externally. Ability to express technical concepts to non-technical audience • Able to influence and work effectively in teams • Ability to learn new technical areas quickly • Ability to analyses situations, to see opportunities for improvement and to identify actions to realize goals • Business acumen and a strong drive to achieve business outcomes • Ability to work in an agile, rapidly changing organization Critical success factors & key challenges • Ontology design, development and implementation is recognized as a key process enabling and integrating capability in Syngenta R&D • Work with key stakeholders to agree priorities and a transformational road map for Data Architecture and Ontology management within Data and Analytics to support our internal and external digital platforms • Provide leadership for data and information architecture enabling key business processes across the company, using large programmers and initiatives as a platform for implementation, in particular for a new data ecosystem that will be implemented across the company Additional Knowledge, Skills, Traits & Abilities: • The role is global and requires virtual and face to face connection with the wider Syngenta community. It is expected to involve of some travel and utilization of virtual technology with other time zones • This role will interact with a wide variety of other roles and job families. Business acumen is critical as well as the ability to work flexibly within a global team ________________________________________ Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Syngenta Contact Information: If you need assistance during the application process, please contact the Service Desk at na.sta_pc_team@syngenta.com Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) (http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmla.htm) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) (http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/firststep/poster_direct.htm) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) (http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/eppa.htm) | 
