Cloud Architect

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Job Title: Global Cloud Architecture
About Syngenta
Syngenta is one of the world’s leading agriculture companies. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality and safety of agriculture with world class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources. With 48,000 people in more than 100 countries we are working to transform how crops are grown. Through partnerships, collaboration and The Good Growth Plan we are committed to improving farm productivity, rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.
To learn more visit www.syngenta.com and www.goodgrowthplan.com.

Purpose
As the Chapter Lead for Cloud Operation Architecture, you set the overall cloud architectural standards, develop reference architectures and guidelines for technology adoption and implementation (i.e., cloud migration, application modernization, ecosystem integration etc.), creating enterprise patterns, models, designs, standards, and monitoring and identifying leading technology trends. Cloud scope includes public cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.), centralized on premise data centers (including 3rd party data center providers) and edge locations as well as supporting automation. This includes supporting cloud initiatives and the current and future state blueprints across business, data, applications, and infrastructure architecture layers.
Responsible for working closely with Enterprise architects from internal & other cloud service teams to make sure the underlying cloud infrastructure architecture and technical decisions support their cloud services, service tiers, and OLAs needed to meet business needs.
You’ll coordinate activities with leadership, architects, engineers and SMEs, support architecture governance to ensure alignment of IT products/projects with enterprise cloud architecture standards, blueprints, and roadmaps, and reduce costs and risks by reducing duplication and redundancy across capabilities.
You contribute to the high performing culture of the Cloud & Compute by inspiring our squads to continuously strive for better, faster, cheaper through cloud. You strive to be a catalyst on transforming the legacy hosting architecture into an integrated hybrid cloud architecture.
You share a collective responsibility with your peers in the Cloud and Compute Leadership Team to drive Syngenta’s Sustainability Strategy through technology and to identify opportunities to better serve and delight growers. You will have an eye on the long-term perspective.
You drive the cloudification of Syngenta into business outcomes and ensure you stay on track with the focus on the right priorities. You proactively engage across the IT organization and their customers with the teams that can contribute to a specific implementation within a business area.

Accountabilities
- Direct architecture activities within Cloud & Compute Operation Team. Ensure alignment between business strategy and plans with technology that will support the strategy. Including that our business goals are in alignment with its technical aspects. Apply a holistic approach to create a solution that will help Syngenta achieve its goals. Provides leadership to other architects and engineers within the Cloud & Compute teams.
- Drive a positive and close working relationship with Syngenta’s IT teams and selected collaborators and outsourcing partners. Pro-actively communicate and engage with the IT and Business communities as a visible ambassador of IT and digital
- Develop a scaled agile team culture. Facilitate, motivate and support the personal and professional development of our Tribe members
- Responsible for overall technology roadmap and driving its implementation for Cloud Compute.
- Ensure that IT designs are aligned with IT delivery standards and guidelines, uphold security polices and conform to support and maintenance processes.
- Develop highly scalable, flexible, resilient, secure and cost-effective cloud blueprints, designs and solutions for a hybrid cloud environment.
- Ensure that solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
- Develop POCs and solutions in partnership with Cloud Engineering, Operations, Development and Application Developments teams to choose appropriate technology solutions and facilitates complete integration. This also covers development of new or existing standards, guidelines, processes, and policies to support the outcome of these activities.
- Guide migration teams to ensure optimal use of cloud technologies

Experience / Previous jobs required for the job
- Experience with at least 3 of the following: Public cloud architecture, Private cloud architecture, Hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS architecture and DevOps approach to IT (8+ years)
- Hands-on understanding of AWS and/or Azure
- Demonstrated ability to design for enterprise IT and catalyze novel concepts in Hybrid Cloud Architectures as applied to the agriculture industry
- Demonstrated skills in working across functions to bring increased business value through seeing the bigger picture, collaboration, and alignment of diverse needs
- Career experience working with senior business leaders and multi-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to bridge information technology with business strategies