Solution Architect - Indianapolis, United States - Corteva Agriscience

Description

Who are we, and what do we do?

Corteva Agriscience creates the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions to address the greatest challenges in agriculture. With a focus on technology, Corteva Agriscience creates seed and crop protection products that increase productivity and profit for farmers while reducing risks to their business. Every day our digital tools deliver insights our global partners need to thrive now and into the future.

With a global footprint and over 21,000 employees, Corteva Agriscience is building the future of agriculture and leading breakthroughs in the innovation and application of science and technology that will better the lives of people all over the world and fuel the progress of humankind.

Corteva Agriscience is looking for an innovative, energetic, and transformational?Solution Architect (SA).

A?Solution Architect (SA)?acts as an owner of architecture design, technical strategy, and operational standards for products or product components in a Product Family. The SA directly works with a product team(s) to design and implement solutions to meet business goals in a secure, scalable, and reliable manner. The SA fosters productive teams, business value, standard and compliant solutions, and innovation. The SA should enjoy working with a group of sharp people, be curious, keep constantly learning and developing his/her skills, be used to challenge and be challenged and have fun serving a major purpose to solve one of the biggest world challenges we have at Corteva.

Primary Responsibilities - How will you help us Grow?

+ Designs structure of components and their inter-relationships alongside the Software Engineering Lead with performance, cost, scalability, and reliability in mind.

+ Lead the evaluation, design, and analysis of solutions that meet business objectives in a complex landscape that adhere to Corteva standards and best-practices.

+ Research complex application/System integration issues with functional teams; examine integration between various systems (Salesforce, SAP and non-SAP solutions).

+ Architect activities during upgrades and major releases with multiple stakeholders, working with Change and Release Management teams.

+ Work closely with Business Process Experts and Product Owners understanding business requirements and, in conjunction with Software Engineering Lead, be able to architect solution for the commercial organization.

+ Design the overall architecture and system structure for web and mobile solutions, considering scalability, performance, security and the end user experience.

+ Help to define the appropriate landscape, platforms and frameworks for web and mobile app development based on business requirements and industry best practices.

+ Escalates to PFAs and PLAs when architecture deviation is needed.

+ Works with Software Engineering Lead to drive Technical Excellence projects as needed.

+ Aids in ensuring consistency of architectural principles for individual solutions.

+ Comfortable with DevOps concepts and can mentor team or build their own pipelines and debug as needed.

+ Generally, will not be allocated to the agile board.

+ Should be able to solve most issues when working with Software Engineering Lead from teams.

+ Participates in planning and execution of solution technical lifecycle and technical excellence with IT POs, PFAs, and PLAs.

+ Ensures alignment of individual product roadmaps through IT Product Owners and Product Family Architects (PFA); includes alignment with technology roadmap and product line folios.

+ Occasionally engages with the IT Product Owner, PFA/Product Line Architects (PLA) on new demand request reviews, technical solutions/evaluations and proof-of-concepts needs for the Product Family.

+ Goes to Enterprise Architect (EA), Security and Privacy with PFA/PLA as needed to gain approval for new developed, purchased and SaaS solutions.

+ Supports broader governance of EA and Engineering standards by driving principles within individual solutions.

+ Engages with Software Engineering Lead, PFAs and PLAs on vendors on solution evaluations (SaaS and non-SaaS) and purchase recommendations.

+ Enables product teams by performing POCs, evaluating and recommending new standards and innovative solutions to attend the business goals.

+ Responsible for driving Corteva Security organization process and standards into solutions.

+ Responsible for aligning the tools and technologies in solutions based on standards from PLA, PFA and EA in the tech radar and enterprise architecture lifecycle.

+ Escalates issues and resolves technical or organization problems as needed for a solution.

+ Works with peers to develop and maintain policies, standards, guidelines (guiding principles), reference architectures / patterns, decision frameworks and metrics to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.

+ Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture, design decisions, data integration and development processes.

+ Be curious and staying updated on the latest trends and advancements in technologies and incorporating relevant innovations to Corteva.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience - What you'll bring to the table

+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

+ 5+ years of experience in designing and engineering complex, high-quality IT solutions.

+ Architecture experience working with mobile application solutions is crucial for this role.

+ Experience with data, integrations and enterprise-level applications.

+ Experience designing solutions in Microsoft Azure with a cloud-first mentality.

+ Experience with web UI frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue.

+ Experience with Mobile frameworks such as React Native, Kotlin, Swift, and Xamarin/.NET MAUI.

+ Experience in design, implementation, and deployment of scalable API services.

+ Experience with software development life cycle processes or Agile development.

+ Familiar with CI/CD practices and Infrastructure as Code.

+ Knowledge of micro-services.

+ Experience with .Net framework and C#.

+ Passionate about customer experience.

+ Partner effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

+ Excellent teamwork, communication (oral and written) and collaboration skills.

Preferred:

+ Knowledge and understanding of Agriculture and Commercial Solutions business domains.

+ Understanding of data mesh concepts and principles, including data products, creation of data domains and federated data ownership.

+ Experience architecting global solutions.

+ Used to work with multicultural and diverse teams.

+ Excellent leadership, communication, and influencing skills.

Benefits - How We'll Support You:

+ Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills

+ Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place

+ Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment

+ Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays

+ Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father

+ Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program

+ Learn more about our total rewards package here - Corteva Benefits )

+ Check out life at Corteva )

Are you a good match? Apply today We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.

Corteva Agriscience is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to boldly embracing the power of inclusion, diversity, and equity to enrich the lives of our employees and strengthen the performance of our company, while advancing equity in agriculture. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. Discrimination, harassment and retaliation are inconsistent with our values and will not be tolerated. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit:

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