Description

Corteva Agriscience is the only major agriscience company in the world completely dedicated to agriculture. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Our inspiration is to be a market shaper, driving the next generation of agriculture products that help farms and farmers flourish and through partnering with society becoming the most trusted partner in the global agriculture and food community.

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. As the world’s first dedicated agriculture start-up, we’re building a culture that stays curious, thinks differently, acts boldly, and takes a stand on what’s right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners, and our planet.

We know we’ve got big challenges to solve – we hope you’ll be part of the solution. Whether you are in the lab or on the farm, teaching classes or crafting code – we need bold thinkers and fearless doers to bring their best to the job at hand. Every role at Corteva Agriscience includes an opportunity to grow what matters.

We are a global team of software/hardware engineers, bioinformaticians, data scientists and computational biologists working in discovery research for the agricultural domain. We value passionate, enthusiastic, out-of-the-box thinkers for their ability to provide innovative software solutions in a team-oriented environment. We are seeking a talented Business Analyst to join the Software and Data Engineering team to support critical production systems that enable scientific research in the areas of Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Data Science.

The candidate will be joining a diverse multi-cultural team of data scientists and software engineers that develops robust digital solutions and builds state of art cloud data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our team members are in Iowa, Indianapolis, California, and Hyderabad.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Business Analyst will work within agile Software Development teams to gather requirements, design, implement, and validate software based on business-driven requirements.
• The candidate should be a passionate and talented individual who can work in a dynamic environment with strong technical & problem-solving abilities, communication skills, scientific understanding.
• He / She will work closely with the software engineer, test engineer and solutions architect to implement production quality software solutions, implement rich multi-tier web solutions that are aligned with and extend shared platforms and solutions.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Experience or expertise in field-based breeding of hybrid & varietal crops.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and business partners.
• Able to handle conflicts and approach negotiations in a diplomatic but confident manner.
• Possess excellent requirements gathering and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Capable of working with complex quantities of data and analyses
• A confident speaker; able to articulate messages well in small to medium size groups.
• A keen sense of translating the work back to the business value derived.
• Experience in strategy development and strategic leadership in R&D or business environments.

Additional desired qualifications:

• B.S. or M.S. in Plant Genetics/Plant Breeding, Biology, Genetics, Agronomy, Chemistry, Information Management, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent amount of relevant education and experience
• Understanding of software development best practices, systems development lifecycle, and enterprise architecture principles
• Previous experience prioritizing and breaking down complex requests into small chunks.
• The ability to be comfortable with the unknown, ask questions, be inquisitive, be a self-starter.
• Ability to dive in, position yourself for success by building relationships, learning quickly, and trying new things.
• Understanding or experience in a laboratory environment and its workflows

Required Competencies:

• Work collaboratively and independently on agile software teams to create new and innovative software systems.
• Communicate complex technical information to a variety of audiences in a clear and concise manner.
• Define system requirements, use cases, and timelines.
• Drive user centered design process. Create wireframes, interview users, create process flow maps, and develop personas.
• Document user stories and acceptance criteria in industry leading tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and Azure Dev Ops, GitLab
• Create burn-up charts, report on project milestones and adhere to defined project scope.
• Understand databases to extract and summarize data.
• Exposure to wireframing tools (ex. Lucidcharts, balsamiq)
• Experience in creating scientific software systems will be an added advantage.

We will ask you to showcase your technical skills, easy-going personality, and your willingness to join and work within a diverse team distributed on multiple time-zones. We will offer a competitive pay package commensurate with your level of expertise.

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/corteva/life

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.