Company Name:
Category:
Data/Analytics
Engineering
Status:
Full-Time
Contact Email:
na.sta_pc_team@syngenta.com.
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 collaborations and partnerships deliver the next generation data platform for Syngenta. The role will lead an innovation team enabling integration of data sources with next generation technologies across functional boundaries and enable researchers and decision makers to solve ever more complex problems and make decisions that impact business outcomes. Work with analysts, project teams, and other leaders within Syngenta to translate data-driven insights into actions and decisions. Implement next generation technologies and capabilities.
Essential Knowledge and Experience:
- Implement a high-performance, next generation data platform.
- Work with a team to identify, design and build appropriate dataset and linkages for complex data.
- Refactor legacy data platforms to integrate with the next generation data platform.
- Implement data quality infrastructure and processes.
- Implement data infrastructure for emerging data classes.
- Contribute to the team’s growing set of development platforms, tools, processes and promote industry standard best practices.
- Identify analytics tool guidelines and standards for performing required data preparation, analysis, visualization, and reporting.
- Provide business and architectural context to show how the analytics tools fit within the overall infrastructure and high-performance data architecture.
- Organize, deliver, and ensure data integration support of a corporate computing capability.
Qualifications
Preferred Knowledge & Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience with large scale data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, machine learning, etc.
- Knowledge of informatics, analytics, computational science, service management, delivery.
- Knowledge of toolsets and capabilities utilized by expert data scientists and modelers.
- Java, C++
- Knowledge of Perl/Python and Unix scripting.
- NoSQL and RDBMS databases
- Hadoop-based tools (Hive, Hbase, MapReduce, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Data modeling and ELT / ETL
- Data analytics and visualization
- Solid communication skills and team player
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Informatics, Computer Science, or related fields
- Experience in Big Data tools, infrastructure, analytics and visualization
- Leading cross-functional / organizational / geography people and teams
Additional Information:
- All applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
- Full time/ Permanent
- Champaign, Illinois
- Domestic and international travel up to 10%
Syngenta Contact Information:
If you need assistance during the application process please contact the Service Desk at na.sta_pc_team@syngenta.com.
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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.
Primary Location: USA-Illinois-Champaign
Job: Business & IS Architecture
Application: Please submit resume and applicant info here