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Data Engineer

Company:
General Mills

Location: Minneapolis, MN 55426

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Job Description:

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. Additionally, General Mills also leverages a big data platform based on Cloudera Hadoop. 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 a 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, SAP Data Services, 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
Strong understanding of Hadoop fundamentals
Database development experience using Oracle, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA
Job Scheduling experience
Process mindset with experience creating, documenting and implementing standard processes
Development experience using Hive 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

Python, Scala or Java development experience
Familiarity with Kafka
Familiarity with the Linux operating system
Experience with agile techniques or methods

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.