Senior Database Architect: Cloud, Modernization & Strategy

Syngenta; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401k with company match

Paid vacation & holidays

Education assistance

Job summary

Syngenta in Durham, NC is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead the administration, optimization, and security of enterprise database platforms supporting critical applications. You will partner with application teams, cloud engineers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into practical strategies and modernization plans.

This role combines hands-on database work with strategic ownership, governance, and cross-team execution, driving availability, performance, and long-term

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 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.

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

Strong scripting & automation

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Independent execution

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Amazon RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

CloudWatch

Job description

Syngenta in Durham, NC is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead the administration, optimization, and security of enterprise database platforms supporting critical applications. You will partner with application teams, cloud engineers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into practical strategies and modernization plans.

This role combines hands-on database work with strategic ownership, governance, and cross-team execution, driving availability, performance, and long-term