Senior Data Engineer at Syngenta Group in Durham, North Carolina, United States

Job description

• We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to be a member of an innovative team working in a collaborative DataOps environment assembled from data engineers, data scientists, visualization and analytics experts drawn from IT and R&D teams. Relationship building, collaboration and influencing will be key in an environment of data complexity and difficult data integration challenges.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead, coach and develop more junior engineers and IT professionals.
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic roadmaps and build a technical strategy to support them.
• Interface with DevOps teams to extract, load and transform data from a wide variety of data sources using big data technologies in AWS cloud including Glue, EMR, and Lambda.
• Deploy high value, high performance datasets in Snowflake.
• Creation and support of real-time data pipelines built on AWS technologies including Glue, S3, Lambda, EMR, EventBridge, Athena, Kinesis, and IoT Core.
• Embed quality and intelligent reporting capabilities into data pipelines including detection of anomalies and changes in trends with meaningful alerts and statistics.
• Continual research of 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.

Requirements

• PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must reside in and be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. This includes, but is not limited to, OPT, CPT, and H-1B visa holders.
• Degree in computer science, information science, engineering, mathematics, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of industry experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.
• Strong experience with data integration (ETL/ELT) concepts.
• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
• Knowledge of, and experience with data transformation technologies and tools
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Desire to work with Agile/DataOps practices and methodologies
• Experience with continuous integration practices
• Able to write, debug, unit test, and performance test data integration processes
• Able to clearly define data quality issues
• Strong problem solving/critical thinking skills
• Ability to lead, mentor and coach other engineers
• Ability to communicate with, and influence, senior stakeholders

Skills

Required

• Data integration (ETL/ELT)
• Building/operating distributed systems
• Data transformation technologies
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Continuous integration
• Defining data quality issues
• Problem solving/critical thinking
• Leading, mentoring, coaching

Benefits

• A culture that celebrates belonging & collaboration, 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, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.
• Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal.
• Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI
• Salary for this position ranges from $114,100 - $211,900 annually