Data Engineer

Company Description

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

• Build, test, and maintain robust, scalable, secure, highly available data pipelines that store, clean, transform, and aggregate data.
• Design and develop data flow using AWS cloud analytics tools.
• Participate in all phases of the Enterprise Data platform development life cycle as appropriate; including, but not limited to gathering customer requirements, defining technical requirements, creating high level architecture diagrams, data validation etc.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to deliver impactful insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Ensure data quality, accuracy, and completeness by implementing data validation, monitoring, and error handling methods.
• Improve automation and simplifying data as a service.
• Position includes option to telecommute from any location within the U.S.

Qualifications

This position requires a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and eight (8) years  of experience in the position offered or eight (8) years of experience as a Systems Analyst, Systems Engineer, IT Analyst, or a related occupation.

Requires four (4) years of experience with: analysis of business/system requirements; AWS related technologies including: S3, Glue, Redshift, and Apache Spark; creating pipeline and framework for the data ingestion and data storage using Informatica, Talend and Databricks; and Data modelling, including data mart or data warehouse solutions.

Requires three (3) years of experience with: designing star/snowflake data model; and developing and deploying reports using PowerBI or Tableau to meet the analytical needs of the business department(s). Must pass a background check and drug test before beginning employment.

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, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

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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