Job Purpose and Impact

This role will support a global, customer-facing portal application. This Manager of Software Engineering job sets goals and objectives for the achievement of operational results for the team responsible for developing and delivering software projects while meeting quality standards and deadlines. This job oversees the software engineering team to deliver against project planning and prioritization, coordinating with cross functional teams and allocating resources effectively to achieve optimal efficiency. Additionally, this role will support our technical lead and help drive feasibility and architecture of new product development, ensuring solutions aligned with Cargill's engineering principles, security standards, and our IT ecosystem. This job collaborates with cross-functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals.

Key Accountabilities
TECHNICAL GUIDANCE: Leads and guides the team to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient code such as small prototypes, utilities, tools and proposals with code and advancing the teams capability.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops an approach and guidance for high quality software solutions.

QUALITY ASSURANCE: Reviews to ensure the quality and performance of software applications through rigorous testing, code reviews, and adherence to best in class industry standards.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Coordinates continuous improvement initiatives and leads implementing approved standards to improve software development and deployment processes and operational excellence.

COLLABORATION: Coordinates collaboration with product managers, designers and other cross functional teams to gather requirements, set priorities, and deliver resolutions to meet business objectives.

DOCUMENTATION: Leads the creation and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Leads technical support and troubleshooting for deployed applications for minimal downtime and fast resolution of issues.

TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals, by allocating resources, ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

Qualifications:

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
• Proven experience in B2B platform engineering and technologies such as REACT, Sprint Boot, and Java.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, Docker, Kubernetes, Cypress, Sonar, Open Search, AWS and microservices architecture.
• Strong foundation in core engineering principles, with the ability to apply them to solution design, scalability, and performance optimization in B2B environments.
• Proficiency with modern engineering toolsets (e.g., GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, backlog management) to support agile delivery and operational transparency.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product teams across diverse B2B domains, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and platform strategy.