Data Engineer

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Senior Professional, Data Engineering job designs, builds and maintains complex data systems that enable data analysis and reporting. With minimal supervision, this job ensures that large sets of data are efficiently processed and made accessible for decision making.

Key Accountabilities

• DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: Prepares data infrastructure to support the efficient storage and retrieval of data.
• DATA FORMATS: Examines and resolves appropriate data formats to improve data usability and accessibility across the organization.
• DATA & ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS: Develops complex data products and solutions using advanced engineering and cloud based technologies, ensuring they are designed and built to be scalable, sustainable and robust.
• DATA PIPELINES: Develops and maintains streaming and batch data pipelines that facilitate the seamless ingestion of data from various data sources, transform the data into information and move to data stores like data lake, data warehouse and others.
• DATA SYSTEMS: Reviews existing data systems and architectures to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Collaborates with multi-functional data and advanced analytic teams to gain requirements and ensure that data solutions meet the functional and non-functional needs of various partners.
• DATA FRAMEWORKS: Builds complex prototypes to test new concepts and implements data engineering frameworks and architectures that improve data processing capabilities and support advanced analytics initiatives.
• AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT PIPELINES: Develops automated deployment pipelines improving efficiency of code deployments with fit for purpose governance.
• DATA MODELING: Performs complex data modeling in accordance to the datastore technology to ensure sustainable performance and accessibility.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with corporate-level data storage and processing platforms (AWS, Snowflake, etc.) and GenAI Tools
• Proven history in leading design, development, and maintenance of scalable ETL pipelines for multi-scale datasets
• Proven experience leading business partnership, requirements gathering, and agile execution in large-scale data development programs

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.

Client-provided location(s): Guápiles, Costa Rica

Job ID: Cargill_FGB-316188

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-11-03T18:42:59