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Job Purpose and Impact

As a Data Engineer at Cargill you work across the full stack to design, develop and operate high performance and data centric solutions using our comprehensive and modern data capabilities and platforms. You will play a critical role in enabling analytical insights and process efficiencies for Cargill’s diverse and complex business environments. You will work in a small team that shares your passion for building innovative, resilient, and high quality solutions while sharing, learning and growing together.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with businesses and other stakeholders to participate in product or solution designs.

• Develop robust, scalable and sustainable data products or solutions utilizing cloud based technologies.

• Provide moderately complex technical support through all phases of product or solution life cycle.

• Perform data analysis, handle data modeling and configure and develop data pipelines to move and optimize data assets.

• Build moderately complex prototypes to test new concepts and provide ideas on reusable frameworks, components and data products or solutions and help promote adoption of new technologies.

• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of two years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing modern data architectures, including data warehouses, data lakes, data meshes, hubs and associated capabilities including ingestion, governance, modeling, observability and more.

• Experience with data collection and ingestion capabilities, including AWS Glue, Kafka Connect and others.

• Experience with data storage and management of large, heterogenous datasets, including formats, structures, and cataloging with such tools as Iceberg, Parquet, Avro, ORC, S3, HFDS, HIVE, Kudu or others.

• Experience with transformation and modeling tools, including SQL based transformation frameworks, orchestration and quality frameworks including dbt, Apache Nifi, Talend, AWS Glue, Airflow, Dagster, Great Expectations, Oozie and others.

• Experience working in Big Data environments including tools such as Hadoop and Spark.

• Experience working in Cloud Platforms including AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Experience of streaming and stream integration or middleware platforms, tools, and architectures such as Kafka, Flink, JMS, or Kinesis.

• Strong programming knowledge of SQL, Python, R, Java, Scala or equivalent.

• Proficiency in engineering tooling including docker, git, and container orchestration services.

• Strong experience of working in devops models with demonstratable understanding of associated best practices for code management, continuous integration, and deployment strategies.

• Experience and knowledge of data governance considerations including quality, privacy, security associated implications for data product development and consumption.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Able to bring a systems thinking / systems mindset to problem solving.

• A passion for quality with an owners mindset.

• A curious learner.

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team, group and culture.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and work in agile ways.

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.