Commercial Enterprise Architect

We are seeking a curious, determined, and high performing technology leader to fill the role of Commercial Enterprise Architect, Global IT & Digital.

We are also looking for candidates who care! Not only great technology and data specialists, but someone who cares, about themselves, other human beings, and about the planet we all live in. Candidates who believe we can change the agriculture industry through technology enabling more sustainable practices and improving food security around the world.

In this role, you will be part of the Commercial IT & Digital team and drive the development and delivery of innovative technology products and solutions, develop purposeful architectures, enable the reusability of best practices, and role model technology excellence for our businesses and teams.

You will work closely with IT & Digital teams to develop and execute the technology strategy across our business, lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of products and services.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, experience working with Commercial technology, including ecommerce and ERP, and teams with a proven track record of driving transformational change and delivering sustainable results. Additionally, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and welcome candidates of all gender identities and backgrounds to apply.

Accountabilities:

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy, and roadmap Digital Product oriented architecture, starting from  Commercial and working across all relevant areas ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and technology strategies.
• Drive development of purposeful architectures across domains that support the integration, scalability, reliability, reusability and security of solutions
• Lead development of technology solutions and ensure they meet the technical requirements and are aligned with the architecture and business vision.
• Understand data integration and architecture that enables systems and processes integration end to end
• Focus on usability of our solutions, besides the backend enablement of it
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional IT and Digital teams, including Commercial, Digital Products and Engineering, P&S, R&D, ERP, Data and analytics to ensure and end-to-end approach to solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to delivery teams and ensure they have the necessary resources, tools, and skills to perform their jobs effectively.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across IT and Digital, be an active part of the engineering and architecture community
• Working with IT and Digital teams look across Business functions to identify and connect opportunities across regions and domains to collaborate, develop and share technology solutions
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and efficiency maintain a strong understanding of overall business strategy and desired outcomes, business and market drivers that influence operational decision-making
• Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, business analysts, and other team members to develop and refine product requirements, specifications, and user stories.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success, making data-driven decisions to prioritize feature development and improvements.
• Manage the product backlog, prioritizing features and enhancements based on user needs, business impact, and resource availability.

• Ideally a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or relevant experience.
• Experience in product engineering, with a focus on developing large-scale enterprise solutions and architecture.
• Experience working with Commercial and ERP technology and teams, background in ecommerce would be an advantage
• Entrepreneurship mindset, helping to lead business goals and build teams that work towards outcomes to solve real customers problems, able to deliver results even with scarce resources.
• Strong technical expertise in software engineering, architecture, quality assurance, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and cross-functional collaboration.
• Leadership and people management skills, with experience leading and developing high-performing teams across multiple locations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• A role which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment
• Competitive salary and benefits package 
• The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees
• A culture that promotes work/life balance, celebrates diversity and offers numerous events throughout the year
• Learning culture and a wide range of development options, including access to learning platforms (Degreed, LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly) 
• High quality office environment

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal.

Learn more about our team and our mission here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI 

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 Group is a leading science-based agtech company, dedicated to bringing plant potential to life. Each of our 50,000 employees in more than 100 countries work together to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges: feeding the world safety while taking care of our planet. We are proud to stand at the forefront of the tech revolution in agriculture. Using the latest digital innovations, data, and cutting-edge technologies we want to reshape the industry through data-fueled intelligent science. This is only possible through digital science by smartly connecting, integrating and exploiting data from Research and Development to Commercial, to better tailor our products and grower advice. 

Our business success reflects the quality and skill of our people. We recognize that human diversity is as important to our business as biodiversity. Embracing the unique perspectives and capabilities of our employees helps us continue to catalyze innovation, maximize performance, and create business value. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.