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 life's 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 thing-today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact:

The Principal, Platform Engineering- Databases job leads designing, developing and maintaining digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. As a recognized subject matter authority in platform engineering, this job leads and advises cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging highly complex issues. This job also leads code reviews to maintain high code quality and advance platform engineering teams' capabilities.

Key Accountabilities

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Leads the design and development of high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
• AUTOMATION: Advises to improve the application of internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
• COLLABORATION: Leads cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains highly complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Proposes continuous improvement initiatives for the software development and deployment processes, and leads implementing approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
• DOCUMENTATION: Leads the establishment and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Leads and mentors technical support and troubleshooting for highly complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Qualifications:

Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Experience:

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Define standards for database operations, roadmap for current technologies and evaluation of new technologies, set long-term strategies and mentor developers
• Database Design & Modeling: Create conceptual, logical, physical data models and design database structures for enterprise systems
• Solution Architecture & Standards: Design, Implement and manage complex relational database systems to ensure high performance, security, and scalability. Maintain documentation and establish best practices
• Technical Proficiency: Expert-level Oracle DB & SQL knowledge. In-depth understanding of relational database design principles. Ability to design, maintain, and upgrade comprehensive database architectures

The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.