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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Engineer - **Company:** Syngenta - **Location:** Durham, NC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $114,100.0 - $163,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Unit Testing, Big Data, Cluster Analysis, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Information Sciences, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, DataOps, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Performance Testing, Snowflake, Cloudformation, Information Technology, Terraform, Data Pipelines - **Published:** June 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ca154f0e79d5d8b7 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Unit testing?, PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must reside in and be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. This encompasses, but is not limited to, OPT, CPT, and H-1B visa holders., * Degree in computer science, information science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline. * 8+ years of industry experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field, with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets. * Strong proficiency in SQL and Python. * Strong experience with data integration (ETL/ELT) concepts and data modeling. * Experience building and operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large datasets. * Deep knowledge of Snowflake, encompasses data warehouse design, performance tuning, and governance. * Experience with AWS services encompasses S3, Glue, Lambda, and EMR. * Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), and DevOps practices. * Able to write, debug, unit test, and performance test data integration processes. * Able to clearly define data quality issues and implement data governance practices. * Strong problem solving/critical thinking skills. * Ability to lead, mentor and coach other engineers. * Ability to communicate with, and influence, senior stakeholders. * Desire to work with Agile/DataOps practices and methodologies. ## Description At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta's Analytics & Data Sciences team is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Durham, NC. 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. Accountabilities * Support an analytical data infrastructure providing application, tool and ad-hoc access to large datasets consisting of complex data types such as 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 such as Glue, EMR, and Lambda. * Deploy high value, high performance datasets in Snowflake, such as data warehouse design, performance tuning, and governance. * Create and support of real-time data pipelines built on AWS technologies such as Glue, S3, Lambda, EMR, EventBridge, Athena, Kinesis, and IoT Core. * Embed quality and intelligent reporting capabilities into data pipelines such as detection of anomalies and changes in trends with meaningful alerts and statistics. * Ensure data governance, security, and cost optimization across cloud data platforms. * Continual research on 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, and clustering. * Help continually improve automation and simplify data as a service. ## Related Videos - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Data Analyst Salary in Switzerland](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/276-data-analyst-salary-in-switzerland) - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers) - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries)