Delivery Lead, Engineering & Technology, CP R&D IT
Syngenta Group
In this Delivery Lead role, you drive reliable, transparent delivery across Platform Engineering, AI Enablement, and Product Engineering. You own cross-squad dependencies and ensure incremental value through well-governed delivery ceremonies. You align external vendor commitments, manage risks, and publish clear dashboards to enable data-driven decisions. You will shape how platform teams collaborate to accelerate science-enabled crop protection innovations. This is a high-impact role at a global leader solving complex digital challenges for sustainable agriculture.
Responsibilities- Coordinate delivery rhythm and ceremonies to drive outcomes
- Surface and manage cross-squad dependencies inside Platform Engineering and with primary consumers
- Coordinate day-to-day delivery with vendor leads and statements of work
- Onboard/offboard vetted externals with Staff Engineers and surface capacity issues early
- Chair the Delivery Council and manage the cross-stream dependency register
- Escalate only when consensus cannot be reached and trigger re-plans as needed
- Establish and maintain delivery metrics and reporting for transparency and action
- Publish delivery dashboards covering health, dependencies, and metrics
- Lead recurring delivery forums and prepare for wider Engineering and Technology cadence
- Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery risks and issues, communicating impact
- Facilitate capacity planning and resource allocation discussions
- Champion continuous improvement in delivery processes
- Maintain delivery documentation and knowledge repositories
- Proven track record coordinating multi-squad engineering delivery in enterprise environments
- Understanding of CI/CD, cloud, IAM, observability, API infrastructure, and HPC
- Ability to distinguish and escalate technical, resourcing, and process risks
- Adaptability in Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid platform engineering approaches
- Influencing without authority with credible leadership backing
- Exceptional written communication and clear dashboards/reports
- Turn retrospectives into real operating changes with follow-through
- Fluency in English (written and verbal)
- Experience delivering tech capabilities in scientific, R&D, data-intensive, or complex enterprise settings
- exceptional written communication
- influencing without authority
- cross-functional collaboration
- CI/CD
- cloud
- IAM
Reference: WJ-747_30142140