Syngenta Group: Lead Data Solutions Architect — Pune, Maharashtra, India

About Syngenta Group

Syngenta Group works in agricultural technology and crop-related innovation. Its employer descriptions connect scientific development and crop solutions with helping farmers use resources effectively and improve how crops are grown. Material from its vegetables-and-flowers business also identifies seed breeding for different climates and horticultural needs. Across these activities, the stated business purpose links agricultural production with resource use and environmental concerns, bringing scientific and technological work to practical farming and growing conditions.

The position and its setting

Syngenta Group lists Lead Data Solutions Architect in Pune, Maharashtra, India, under reference 18070587. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: IT & Digital
• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 26 August 2026
• Brands: Syngenta Group

Responsibilities and work described

• We are seeking a Lead Data Architect to serve as a critical bridge between the EDO Enterprise Solution Architecture team and our business domains, with a focus on AI-aligned data initiatives
• This role is embedded within a specific business function, serving as the domain’s trusted architectural authority to accelerate delivery of data mesh, data science, ML, and GenAI use cases
• The primary objective is to translate enterprise architecture blueprints, platforms, and standards into tangible, high-value solutions, while providing continuous feedback to evolve those standards based on real-world applications
• This is a hands-on architectural leadership role requiring deep expertise in AWS and Databricks, modern cloud data architectures, and stakeholder influence and communication skills
• Key Accountabilities
• Architectural Enablement & Leadership
• Act as the primary Data architect and trusted advisor for the embedded business function, supporting initiatives from ideation through to production
• Quality / delivery: enterprise Data, ML, and AI architecture principles are applied pragmatically to deliver measurable business value
• Solution Architecture & Design
• Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to understand business use cases and constraints
• Design: and document end-to-end data, aligned with enterprise standards for:
• O Data mesh and domain-oriented data products
• O DataOps, MLOps, and emerging AgentOps practices
• O AI-aligned data patterns (feature stores, RAG pipelines, inference architectures)
• Review: and guide solution designs to ensure they are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective
• Collaboration & Enterprise Alignment

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Knowledge, Experience & Capabilities
• Deep knowledge of modern cloud data architectures on AWS, including lakehouse, streaming, and analytical workloads
• Understanding: cloud security architectures, including VPC design, private connectivity, IAM least-privilege models, encryption, and enterprise identity integration
• Translate enterprise blueprints into Domain-oriented Data Products, promoting decentralised ownership while maintaining central standards for interoperability and discoverability
• Experience: enterprise metadata and governance tooling (e.g. Unity Catalog, Glue), including fine-grained access control and lineage
• Hands-on experience applying DataOps principles, including Data observability, CI/CD, testing, and operational resilience of data pipelines
• Experience architecting data platforms that support ML and Generative AI, including feature stores, vector search, RAG pipelines, and inference architectures
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Advertised location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Syngenta Group

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Practical preparation: CI/CD

CI/CD experience should describe the path from a proposed change to a release. Identify the checks, build artefacts and deployment steps you worked on, together with the problem the pipeline solved.

Relevant skills

• CI/CD
• AWS
• AI/ML
• AI
• embedded systems
• stakeholder management
• communication
• key-account planning