Application Engineer (Formulation Applications & Integrations)
Job Purpose and Impact
The Software Engineering - Formulation role provides hands-on engineering and application ownership for business-critical formulation and product-labeling applications used in animal nutrition. The role configures, maintains, troubleshoots, and improves commercial formulation software and its integrations with enterprise resource planning, manufacturing, and data platforms. It supports reliable application operation and global project delivery, including ERP implementations, formulation-system modernization, cloud migration, and integration with nutritional labeling tools. The role works with business users, solution architects, vendors, and technical support teams to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.
Key Accountabilities
APPLICATION OWNERSHIP & LIFECYCLE: Owns day-to-day technical operation of assigned formulation applications. Maintains service health and supports business value through incident, request, and problem management; application configuration and release coordination; vendor engagement; lifecycle, version, and retirement planning; and alignment with architecture, security, risk, and resiliency requirements. Provides application and integration support for associated product and nutritional labeling tools as needed.
APPLICATION ENGINEERING & CONFIGURATION: Performs hands-on application configuration, maintenance, testing, and controlled deployment of changes. Uses code or scripting where appropriate to troubleshoot, automate, or improve application processes, following sound engineering, version-control, testing, and release practices.
INCIDENT, PROBLEM & USER SUPPORT: Investigates and resolves application and interface issues, documents causes and corrective actions, and coordinates resolution with users, vendors, and technical support teams. Provides direct technical support in regions where external support coverage is unavailable.
INTEGRATION DESIGN & DELIVERY: Documents requirements, interfaces, data mappings, and dependencies; helps assess current and target-state designs; and supports integration testing and defect resolution. Contributes to integrations between formulation and nutritional labeling applications, ERP systems such as SAP S/4HANA, manufacturing systems, and cloud-based data lake and analytics platforms. Supports API-based, message-based, and file-based data exchange using approved patterns.
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PROJECT & CLOUD DELIVERY: Contributes to global ERP implementations and formulation-system modernization, including requirements, solution assessment, integration mapping, testing, and deployment activities. Supports application migration to AWS and related cloud-foundation work.
TESTING, DOCUMENTATION & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Coordinates and executes system, integration, and user-acceptance testing; tracks defects through resolution; maintains application, support, and interface documentation; participates in peer review of code or configuration changes where applicable; and helps automate repeatable testing, deployment, and monitoring. Recommends improvements to reliability, supportability, security, and technical debt
Qualifications
• Have a Bachelor's degree with minimum 4 years of professional work experience.
• Hands-on experience supporting, configuring, maintaining, or developing business applications.
• Working knowledge of software engineering practices, including secure coding or configuration, debugging, testing, code or change review, version control or equivalent change traceability, and controlled releases; able to use at least one programming or scripting language for application changes or automation.
• Working knowledge of application integration concepts, including REST APIs, interface troubleshooting, data mapping, and common formats such as XML, JSON, and CSV.
• Strong issue-management, documentation, and collaboration skills; able to coordinate work across business users, technical teams, and vendors.
• Ability to use AI tools effectively and responsibly to increase proficiency and productivity in the role.
• English proficiency, with the ability to communicate clearly in writing and speech with global business users, technical teams, and vendors.
Preferred qualifications
• Experience with commercial formulation platforms such as New Century, Brill, or BESTMIX, or with product and nutritional labeling applications.
• Familiarity with AWS-hosted application operations, including environments, monitoring and logs, deployment support, and security and resiliency practices.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII), and integrations with manufacturing systems.
• Basic SQL or equivalent data-query skills; experience integrating applications with cloud-based data lake or analytics platforms.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Short-Term Disability
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- HSA
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Family Support Resources
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Sabbatical
- Leave of Absence
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Work Visa Sponsorship
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion