Platform Manager

Syngenta; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural technology company in Bracknell is seeking a Platform Manager to oversee multiple product development platforms. This role involves managing vendor teams, ensuring agile delivery practices, and leading initiatives in a hybrid cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have a background in IT and proven experience in agile and DevOps teams, contributing to solutions that enhance agricultural innovation.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Up to 31.5 days annual holiday

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading platforms in a DevOps environment.
• Extensive experience working in Agile methodologies.
• Awareness of emerging cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a roadmap of IT applications and initiatives.
• Deliver prioritized work packages across multiple products.
• Track risks and dependencies for platforms led.

Skills

Leadership in DevOps teams

Agile methodologies

Strong communication skills

Customer-focused mindset

Ability to work independently

Education

University Bachelor’s Degree in IT technology

Tools

Hybrid cloud technology

CI/CD pipelines

Automation tools

Job description

Overview

Company Description

Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow healthy and nutritious food while taking care of the planet. We offer a leading portfolio of crop protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group.

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. Regardless of your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding an ever-increasing population while taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.

Overview

In our continuing mission to enable digital science across Crop Protection Research and Development (CP R&D) we are looking for a Platform Manager to run a number of products in a significant, high value and impactful transformation across the global function, Product Biology, that enables key understandings of how our new inventions and technologies deliver innovative products to the customers we serve. You will be 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. Within this role you will be running multiple platforms, keeping the vendor development teams focused on business outcomes, reduction of technical debt, advocating for new ways of working and thinking and deliver the foundational data sets that enable ever faster and more innovative customer products.

Responsibilities

• Defining and maintaining a 1 to 3 year roadmap of support for existing IT applications and new initiatives within a continuous DevOps model.
• Delivering work packages of prioritized stories across multiple products to deliver business value.
• Ensuring our data products support FAIR principles.
• Delivering technical debt reduction in a hybrid cloud environment, while inspiring and supporting teams to implement automation, CI/CD pipelines and native cloud technology.
• Ensuring all platforms are delivering in agile methodologies with pace by owning and driving the delivery plans, risk/issue logs and supplier relationships.
• Being an active member of the platform lead community, contributing to setting best practice, peer review, mentoring and coaching.
• Creating and maintaining risk and dependency tracking across the multiple platforms you lead and work alongside.

Qualifications

What we are looking for?

• University Bachelor’s Degree preferred in IT technology.
• Proven experience leading platforms or DevOps teams in a number of domains with incremental delivery.
• Extensive experience working in an Agile ( ideally DevOps ) environment.
• Awareness of emerging cloud technologies and delivery in cloud environments.
• Mindset of Agile change delivery and steady state operations.
• Strong influencing skill with excellent communication and negotiation capabilities, promoting diverse thinking.
• Customer-focused team player staying current with technological and scientific advancements.
• Ability to work independently in complex environments while maintaining compliance with all standards.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in life sciences R&D.
• Post-graduate degrees in a STEM discipline.

Additional Information

Our site

Jealott\'s Hill International Research Centre UK is situated in pleasant semi-rural surroundings between Bracknell and Maidenhead and is the place of work for approximately 800 Syngenta scientists and support staff. Jealott’s Hill is one of the main global research and development sites and key activities include research into discovery of new active ingredients, new formulation technologies, product safety and technical support of our product range.

Additional locations within the UK can be also considered.

What we offer

• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday.
• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
• The chance to work as part of a global team to address the current and future needs of the agricultural sector and help feed an ever-increasing population.
• A vibrant growth and learning culture and wide range of training options.

Syngenta has been ranked as atop 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.

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. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion