Principal Data Engineering
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Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with lifes essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thingtoday and for generations to come.
The Principal, Data Engineering job provides thought leadership in the execution of strategic plans related to design, development and maintenance of robust data systems. As a recognized subject matter expert in the field, this jobleadsthe development of efficient processing and availability of data for analysis and reporting.
Essential Functions- DATA PIPELINES: Provides thought leadership on the design and development of data pipelines thatfacilitatethe movement of data from various sources to internal databases.
- DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: Influences the construction and optimization of data infrastructure, providingappropriate dataformats to ensure data readiness for analysis.
- DATA FORMATS: Examines and sees improvement opportunities forappropriate dataformats tooptimizedata usability and accessibility across the organization.
- STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Cultivates positive relationships and partners to understand data needs and encourage alignment with organizationalobjectives.
- DATA SYSTEMS: Develops and guides the implementation of data products and solutions using advanced engineering and cloud-based technologies, ensuring they are designed and built to be scalable, sustainable, and robust.
- SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT: Leads efforts to improve the development of technical products and solutions driving big data and cloud-based technologies, ensuring they are designed and built to be scalable, sustainable, and robust.
- DATA FRAMEWORKS: Drives development standards and brings forward prototypes to test new data framework concepts and architecture patterns supporting efficient data processing and analysis and promoting standard methodologies in data management.
- AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEMS: Builds automated reporting systems thatprovidetimelyinsights andfacilitatedata driven decision making.
- DATA MODELING: Provides thought leadership on data modeling and preparation of data in databases for use in various analytics tools and to develop data pipelines to move and improve data assets.
- Minimumrequirementof6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years ormore ofrelevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- ARCHITECTURAL LEADERSHIP: Defines long-term technical direction,establishesbest practices, and ensures solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise strategy.
- OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE MINDSET:Championsreliability, observability, and performance, ensuring data systems meethigh standardsfor availability and quality.
- STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING:Evaluates competing priorities such as speed, cost, risk, and flexibility to make sound technical and architectural decisions.
- CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS:deepexpertiseimplementing cloud-based data warehouses, data lakes, and open table formats in large-scale production environments. Has hands-on experiencewith technologies such as Snowflake, AWS, and openlake houseecosystems.
- DATA INGESTION:Demonstratedproficiencyin data collection, ingestion tools (Kafka, AWS Glue), and storage formats (Iceberg, Parquet)
- DATA STREAMING: Experience developing data pipelines with streaming architectures and tools (Kafka, Flink).
- DATA TRANSFORMATION: Strongbackground withusing Spark for data transformation, including streaming, performance tuning, and debugging with Spark UI.
- DEVOPS: Extensive experience in DevOps practices, including code management, CI/CD, and deployment strategies.
This role is located in our Atlanta, GA office. The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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