Solution Architect

Syngenta; Pune City; On-site; INR 12,00,000 - 18,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global agricultural firm is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Pune City, India, to support digital transformation in Crop Protection Research and Development. You will design and deliver cloud-based distributed systems, ensuring compliance with standards and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates have a solid background in software engineering, cloud technologies, and a track record in AI/ML integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a hands-on Solution Architect or enterprise architect.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of architecture principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture roadmap for R&D.
• Ensure compliance with company and industry standards.
• Collaborate with teams to align with architectural standards.

Skills

Cloud technologies (AWS essential, other clouds desirable)

AI/ML integration in enterprise systems

Problem-solving and analytical skills

Strategic thinking

Job description

Purpose

In our continuing mission to enable digital science across Crop Protection Research and Development (CP R&D) we are looking for a senior Devops engineer to support the numerous teams delivering a significant, high value and impactful transformation across the global function, Product Biology. This enables key understandings of how our new inventions and technologies deliver innovate products to the customers we serve.

You will be someone who is curious, courageous to act and through 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. Creating and implementing in collaboration with data architects and others an intentional architecture and delivery standards roadmaps to support our existing and new applications, capabilities and shared service layers to support the business function.

Working further than Research and development with colleagues in science and IT you will support a multi million dollar investment into existing Devops teams across the core capabilities needed including creating field experiments, capturing data , creating FAIR data products and a data exploitation layer that leverages the power of AI and other digital applications from R&D and into commercial digital products

You will deeply understand DevOps best practice, architecture standards and emerging technologies and support vendor and internal teams delivering a delivery heartbeat.

Accountabilities

• Developing and maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmap across a significant domain in research & development and associate with development teams
• Ensuring compliance with Syngenta and industry standards and regulations
• Determining the technology system architecture and functional design needed to support and meet the domains business goals
• Defining common elements, patterns and standards to facilitate reuse across the domain
• Ensuring effective usage of IT assets (infrastructure and systems)
• Ownership and maintenance of comprehensive architecture documentation
• Generating graphic representations and abstracts of the system architecture models
• Evaluating existing IT landscape for exposure or weaknesses that could compromise performance, security or efficiency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with architectural standards
• Participating in vendor selection and management for key technology solutions
• Ensuring full adaptation of modern software engineering practices (Clean Code, GitFlow, )

Experience / Previous jobs required for the job

• 5+ yr Proven track record acting as a hands-on Solution Architect / enterprise architect with a strong foundation in Software Engineering
• Proven track record of designing and delivering of distributed systems
• Proven track record of working with large scale legacy systems
• Excellent knowledge of architecture principles and best practices
• Strong Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strategic thinking and ability to align technology with business goals
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (AWS essential, other clouds desirable)
• Experience with AI/ML integration in enterprise systems
• Knowledge of data architecture and governance principles
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies

Experiences to be gained in the job:

• Exposure to business strategy as an entry into more strategic leadership roles
• Deep understanding of the Crop Protection R&D and digital science
• Build a authentic , trust based working relationship with sponsors, experts and managers