OVERVIEW
Technology at General Mills accelerates process transformation and business growth around the globe. To achieve business success, the Digital & Technology team uses leading edge technology, innovative thinking and agile processes. One of our General Mills’ key technology priorities is driving business action through connected data.
The General Mills Digital & Technology organization is currently in the process of building a cloud data platform to advance the data-driven decision making capabilities of our enterprise. If you are an agile learner, have strong problem solving skills and are able to function as part of a highly technical, cross functional team, we would like to hear from you.
General Mills is seeking an Advanced Data Engineer to act as a key technical leader in our organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as a key technical leader within General Mills
- Design, create, code, and support a variety of ETL solutions (potentially including but not limited to: Talend Studio, Python, Scala, Kafka, Google Big Query, or others)
- Generate and implement your own ideas on how to improve the operational and strategic health of big data ecosystem
- Participate in the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools & process in the big data space.
- Partner with business analysts and solutions architects to deliver business initiatives.
- Collaboratively troubleshoot technical and performance issues in the big data ecosystem
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree; Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering preferred
- Minimum 2 years of IT experience, 3+ preferred
Cloud data experience - Database development experience
- Job Scheduling experience
- Process mindset with experience creating, documenting and implementing standard processes
- Development experience using Python and/or Spark
- Effective verbal and written communication and influencing skills.
- Effective analytical and technical skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to research, plan, organize, lead, and implement new processes or technology
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Scala or Java development experience
- Familiarity with Kafka
- Familiarity with the Linux operating system
- Experience with agile techniques or methods
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for a U.S. work visa.
- Relocation support will not be offered to applicants within the United States.
- International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.
- The location for this position is Minneapolis, MN - remote work applications will be considered.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.