Principal Software Engineer - Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (ATL or MSP)

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

• This hands-on technical leadership role designs, develops, configures, and maintains production planning and scheduling software for the manufacturing supply chain. As a subject matter expert, you'll guide cross-functional teams to implement new features, enhance performance, and improve functionality through streamlined configuration and scalable code. Responsibilities include configuring systems, writing code, troubleshooting complex issues, conducting code reviews, embedding modern engineering practices - Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated testing and CI/CD pipelines. While this is an individual contributor role, it will involve mentoring, coaching and developing junior technical staff.

Key Accountabilities

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Leads the design and development of high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
• AUTOMATION: Advises and improves the application of internal software deployment platform, CI/CD pipelines & Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodologies and tools 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.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Proposes continuous improvement initiatives for the software development and deployment processes, and leads the implementation of 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.
• Broad knowledge of agile and product methodologies and frameworks.
• Configuring or building applications in a product environment.

PREFERRED WORK EXPERIENCE

• The candidate should have experience completing multiple (at least three or more) full application lifecycle/deployments.

Understanding of software/UX design principles, software development best practices, OOP principles, low code/no code platform extensions, architectural patterns for systems integration in package heavy environments.

• S4HANA (or other relevant packages - O9) configuration & debugging, ABAP coding experience .
• Artificial intelligence & Machine learning including python coding.
• Demonstrable agentic AI development experience incl prompt engineering.
• Direct experience working with the C3.ai platform.
• Functional expertise in the area of manufacturing/production planning and scheduling (and S&OE if also included)
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management abilities are critical to being a good business partner.
• Experience with business partnering roles or as members or managers of supply chain planning teams / COEs.

Short Description
The expected salary for this position is $144,000- $220,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance. At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.