Software Architect

At Corteva Agriscience, we are dedicated to enriching the lives of those who produce and consume food, ensuring progress for generations to come. As a Software Architect, you will play a crucial role in developing and integrating innovative solutions that support our mission of helping farmers feed and fuel the world. Join our dynamic team and contribute to cutting-edge projects that drive sustainability. Your expertise will help us build on our heritage and address the agricultural challenges of tomorrow.

As a Software Architect, you will be a technology leader, an inspiring motivator, and a cross-team collaborator who enjoys learning from and sharing knowledge with others. You will have an opportunity to work in a diverse environment to design and develop cloud-based web applications for Corteva R&D. You will need to be an architect with passion and drive to boldly innovate while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. You must be a curious individual who is continuously learning, has a strong intellectual drive for excellence, and the desire to develop elegant solutions for complex problems.
 
Responsibilities – What You Will do:

• Technical lead on an agile development team consisting of software engineers, business analysts, product owners, and test automation engineers .
• Analyze, design, and develop a variety of new and exciting high-performance cloud-based software solutions for our business partners.
• Maintain and support the team’s existing applications.
• Create an environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and engineering leadership.
• Mentor others and help promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices.
• Engage with other technology leaders, architects, and the Community of Practices to help build and maintain standards and shared solutions.
• Show a passion to continuously learn, improve, and share your knowledge and stay informed with the latest software development industry trends.
• Contribute to the technical and strategic success of Software Engineering 

What Skills You Need:

• 6+ years combined experience architecting and developing high-quality full-stack web applications.
• Proven track record delivering solutions on time, in scope, and within budget.
• Possess excellent software architecture design, problem solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams and business partners.
• Experience architecting complex solutions using object-oriented languages, web development frameworks, databases, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with coding and architecture design patterns, principles, and practices.
• Experience using infrastructure as code in a cloud environment, AWS preferred.
• Experience with cloud CI/CD pipelines and related development tools, Gitlab preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including sharing technical information in a non-technical fashion.

Additional Skills - Desirable, but not required:

• Background or interest in biology, chemistry, genetics, or agriculture and the ability to understand and the desire to solve complex scientific problems.
• Experience with web application development including RESTful API Services.
• Experience with modern programming languages like Python, Typescript, and C#.
• Experience with web development frameworks like React and Angular.
• Experience with relational database schema design and object-relational mapping.
• Experience with developing high-performance, high-throughput data systems.
• Experience with multiple agile development methodologies.
• Experience collaborating with third party vendors.

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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! www.linkedin.com/company/corte