Description
Digital Science Intern
Location - Bracknell or remote
Start Date - flexible
Syngenta are a world-leading plant science company committed to promoting sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. In more than 90 countries around the world, their employees enable millions of farmers to improve global food security by making better, more sustainable use of available resources.
Syngenta currently have a number of Digital Science Internships available for those with a keen interest in science, technology and/or data. This is a great opportunity to gain hands on experience in an exciting R&D environment working alongside experts.
Digital science covers a wide range of skills from ensuring infrastructure has the right power, applications are providing the right tools for the job, there is access to quality data and that outputs can be understood via models or visualisations.
Within this role you will rapidly understand the challenges faced as the team strive towards creative solutions to make things "just work". You'll learn about how the team integrate cloud with on-site infrastructure and the practical issues that arise from this. Your curiosity and willingness to try things out will help the team understand what solutions work in a real-world environment and at the same time give you hands-on experience.
As part of the digital platforms team, you'll understand the needs of scientists and the research problems they are trying to solve. You'll help Syngenta design their future platforms and upgrade paths to ensure they can be used to discover future sales products.
This placement will offer the ability to work with technical, scientific and data-driven colleagues in an open and flexible environment. We'll need you to communicate well, be willing to try things out and be happy to spend time researching information. You'll also need to be comfortable with working remotely via Zoom.
In return you will be provided with training and mentoring to support your longer term personal and professional development.
Accountabilities
- Primary point of contact between R&D and technical teams
- Formally documenting requirements/user stories so that they remain understandable for the business to subscribe to, while sufficiently comprehensive, structured and technically oriented to be translated into technical solutions by the development team
- Ensure adherence to Agile methodologies and internal standards
- Prevents scope creep and acts as a gatekeeper against changes in definition
- Requirements gathering workshops and meetings
- Manages the product backlog with the Platform Manager and Platform Owner
- Work closely with offshore development teams through daily stand-ups and backlog refinements
- Liaise with other analysts to share experiences, skills and innovation across IT
- Highlights risks as they become evident
- Participates in testing of features prior to release
Experience/Previous jobs required for the job
- Keen interest in science, technology and/or data
- Awareness of emerging technologies
- Good communication skills with a willingness to ask questions
- Ability to manage complexity and uncertainty, including self-driven research and learning
Critical knowledge and education required for the job
- Strong customer focus, communication and teamwork skills
- Some knowledge of either IT infrastructure (cloud or physical), application management or data management
- Interest in technology and science in the external world
- Act on your own with minimal guidance in a complex scientific or business sustainability environment while still ensuring full compliance with all internal and external standards
- Fluency in English
Experiences to be gained in the job:
- Training and on the job development in a real IT project
- Exposure to business strategy to understand why our roles are critical
- Understanding of the Crop Protection R&D and scientific computing
- Build a solid working relationship with customers, experts and leaders
- Presentation and communication skills
Potential next jobs:
Various IT positions, including Scientific Business Analyst, Technical IT roles, Data Science or roles within R&D
To apply for this position please submit your CV to discuss directly.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age