Senior Cloud Database Architect | AWS & Modernization

Syngenta Seeds; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Benefit Package

401k with company match

Paid Vacation

Education Assistance

Job summary

Syngenta Seeds in Durham, NC seeks a Senior Database Administrator to lead enterprise database platforms, focusing on availability, performance, security, and modernization across AWS-hosted and on-prem environments.

You will partner with application, cloud, and infrastructure teams to translate needs into practical database strategies, governance, and multi-year roadmaps, while mentoring junior DBAs and driving automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience administering enterprise database platforms in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud database services, including Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Advanced SQL, database architecture, query execution plan analysis, indexing, partitioning, clustering, performance tuning, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, data modeling, normalization, and roadmap execution expertise.
• Experience troubleshooting complex application, database, and infrastructure issues supporting mission-critical services.
• Experience with database monitoring, operational support, incident response, change management, and problem management processes.
• Strong scripting, automation, analytical, strategic planning, communication, stakeholder management, organizational, and independent execution skills, with the ability to work under minimal supervision and proficiency using database administration tools and utilities.

Responsibilities

• Administer, optimize, secure, and monitor enterprise database platforms across AWS-hosted and enterprise environments, including Amazon RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and related technologies.
• Define database strategy, standards, governance, service catalog expectations, ownership metadata, operational documentation, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business priorities, operational needs, and compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents and resolve performance, replication, connectivity, availability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and reliability issues for mission-critical database services.
• Lead database modernization initiatives from assessment through execution, including migration to cloud-native and managed database services and improvement of long-term platform sustainability.
• Manage data sources, change data capture, replication, synchronization, transformation, data modeling, and normalization practices to support reliable data flow and trusted business outcomes.
• Maintain security controls, encryption standards, access controls, vulnerability remediation, audit support, automation, change management, and operational standards for database environments.
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, vendor, and business teams while mentoring junior database administrators through coaching, standards, knowledge sharing, and practical database administration guidance.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modeling

Performance tuning

High availability

Disaster recovery

Automation

Scripting

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Oracle

MongoDB

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Syngenta Seeds in Durham, NC seeks a Senior Database Administrator to lead enterprise database platforms, focusing on availability, performance, security, and modernization across AWS-hosted and on-prem environments.

You will partner with application, cloud, and infrastructure teams to translate needs into practical database strategies, governance, and multi-year roadmaps, while mentoring junior DBAs and driving automation.