Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer will be part of a team working in a collaborative DataOps environment assembled from data engineers, data scientists, visualization and analytics experts drawn from IT and R&D teams.

Specific duties include:

• Support an analytical data infrastructure providing application, tool and ad-hoc access to large datasets consisting of complex data types including genomic, phenotypic, environmental, image and geospatial data.
• Process huge data using Big Data tools and technologies like Spark, Hadoop and Hive and extract, transform and load data using various ETL tools.
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic roadmaps and build a technical strategy to support them.
• Deploy high value, high performance datasets in Snowflake.
• Create and support real-time data pipelines built on AWS technologies including Glue, S3, Lambda, EMR, EventBridge, Athena, Kinesis, and IoT Core.
• Create end to end database architecture and data modeling in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Sybase and creating complex SQL queries, stored procedures and functions to implement business logic.
• Embed quality and intelligent reporting capabilities into data pipelines including detection of anomalies and changes in trends with meaningful alerts and statistics.
• Maintain versions of code and implement CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous deployment) pipelines using Github, Teamcity, Jenkins and SVN.
• Continually research the latest big data and visualization technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency.
• Collaborate with data scientists and other tech teams to implement advanced analytics algorithms into our data pipelines that exploit our rich datasets for statistical analysis, prediction, clustering and machine learning.
• Help continually improve automation and simplifying data as a service.
• Performing work using cloud technologies including AWS, EC2, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift/Spectrum, Lambda, EMR, Athena, Data Pipeline.
• Create Graphical User Interfaces by coding in advance HTML, Java and Javascript and create various utilities by programming in Python, Powershell and Unix Shell Scripting.

Position based at company headquarters in Greensboro, NC; may telecommute from anywhere in the U.S.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical discipline and 5 years of related (progressive, post-baccalaureate) experience.

Must also have 12 months of experience (which may have been gained concurrently) with each of the following:

1. Processing huge data using Big Data tools and technologies like Spark, Hadoop and Hive and extracting, transforming and loading data using various ETL tools.
2. Maintaining versions of code and implementing CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous deployment) pipelines using Github, Teamcity, Jenkins and SVN.
3. Creating end to end database architecture and data modeling in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Sybase and creating complex SQL queries, stored procedures and functions to implement business logic.
4. Performing work using cloud technologies including AWS, EC2, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift/Spectrum, Lambda, EMR, Athena, Data Pipeline.
5. Creating Graphical User Interfaces by coding in advance HTML, Java and Javascript and creating various utilities by programming in Python, Powershell and Unix Shell Scripting.

All experience may have been gained concurrently. Must pass a background check and drug test before beginning employment. Position based at company headquarters in Greensboro, NC; may telecommute from anywhere in the U.S.

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

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.

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)

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.  

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.  

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.