Data Governance Analyst

Company Description

About Syngenta

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.  

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.  

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.  

Job Description

About Us

Through leading innovations, we help farmers around the world meet the challenge of feeding a growing population and taking care of our planet. To support that challenge, Syngenta Seeds R&D team is currently seeking a Data Governance Analyst in Durham, NC.

This role will establish and implement data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure data integrity, accuracy, and availability within Seeds R&D.

Accountabilities

• Create and maintain a culture of Data Governance by partnering with functional data owners to promote best practices, standards, principles, and policies.
• Facilitate and promote the usage and adoption of data governance tools, processes, and procedures among functional business users.  
• Monitor data quality metrics to understand the health of data and impacts on business results.
• Lead the resolution of data quality issues discovered by data quality reporting.  
• Develop and deploy active/passive data governance initiatives to identify and resolve data inaccuracies, inconsistencies, or redundancies.
• Implement day-to-day needs of the data governance and data quality program.
• Recommend and implement policies and procedures for data governance approved by the Data Governance council and team.
• Identify data quality opportunities and drive compliance with data governance and quality initiatives.
• Ensure data governance opportunities are identified and addressed throughout the project life cycle.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a Date Governance or related field
• A minimum of a 4-year degree in one or multiple of the following: life sciences, computer science, data management, data governance, data science.  
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship support from Syngenta.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Data Catalog tools like Collibra or Alation.  
• Ability to establish and implement data governance frameworks.
• Ability to conduct requirement gathering sessions.
• Ability to perform data analysis using SQL, Python, or R.
• Data Catalog/Data Analysis knowledge.

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, 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                                    

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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.

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