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Principal Data Engineer

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Principal Data Engineer

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND

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Senior level

Food • Greentech • Logistics • Sharing Economy • Transportation • Agriculture • Industrial

Reimagining what's possible for food and agriculture

The Role

The Principal Data Engineer will lead the design and development of data systems, pipelines, and frameworks while ensuring data availability for analysis. They will collaborate with stakeholders and manage data infrastructure efficiently.

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Job Purpose and Impact
The Principal, Data Engineering job provides thought leadership in the execution of strategic plans related to design, development and maintenance of robust data systems. As a recognized subject matter expert in the field, this job leads the development of efficient processing and availability of data for analysis and reporting.
Key Accountabilities

DATA PIPELINES: Provides thought leadership on the design and development of data pipelines that facilitate the movement of data from various sources to internal databases.
DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: Influences the construction and optimization of data infrastructure, providing appropriate data formats to ensure data readiness for analysis.
DATA FORMATS: Examines and sees improvement opportunities for appropriate data formats to optimize data usability and accessibility across the organization.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Cultivates positive relationships and partners to understand data needs and encourage alignment with organizational objectives.
DATA SYSTEMS: Develops and guides the implementation of data products and solutions using advanced engineering and cloud-based technologies, ensuring they are designed and built to be scalable, sustainable, and robust.
SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT: Leads efforts to improve the development of technical products and solutions driving big data and cloud-based technologies, ensuring they are designed and built to be scalable, sustainable, and robust.
DATA FRAMEWORKS: Drives development standards and brings forward prototypes to test new data framework concepts and architecture patterns supporting efficient data processing and analysis and promoting standard methodologies in data management.
AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEMS: Builds automated reporting systems that provide timely insights and facilitate data driven decision making.
DATA MODELING: Provides thought leadership on data modeling and preparation of data in databases for use in various analytics tools and to develop data pipelines to move and improve data assets.

Qualifications

Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

ARCHITECTURAL LEADERSHIP: Defines long-term technical direction, establishes best practices, and ensures solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise strategy.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE MINDSET: Champions reliability, observability, and performance, ensuring data systems meet high standards for availability and quality.
STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING: Evaluates competing priorities such as speed, cost, risk, and flexibility to make sound technical and architectural decisions.
CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS: deep expertise implementing cloud-based data warehouses, data lakes, and open table formats in large-scale production environments. Has hands-on experience with technologies such as Snowflake, AWS, and open lakehouse ecosystems.
DATA INGESTION: Demonstrated proficiency in data collection, ingestion tools (Kafka, AWS Glue), and storage formats (Iceberg, Parquet)
DATA STREAMING: Experience developing data pipelines with streaming architectures and tools (Kafka, Flink).
DATA TRANSFORMATION: Strong background with using Spark for data transformation, including streaming, performance tuning, and debugging with Spark UI.
DEVOPS: extensive experience in DevOps practices, including code management, CI/CD, and deployment strategies.

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Skills Required

Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience
Deep expertise in cloud-based data platforms
Proficiency with data ingestion tools like Kafka and AWS Glue
Experience with data transformation using Spark
Extensive experience in DevOps practices

What the Team is Saying

Cargill Compensation & Benefits Highlights

Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental health/EAP resources, wellness programs, and partner services like Bright Horizons and Milk Stork on the official benefits hub. Feedback suggests these offerings provide robust support for both physical and psychological well-being.
Retirement Support — Retirement programs feature immediate 401(k) eligibility with a competitive company match, plus an ESOP component and Vanguard administration, with some materials also noting an employer-funded retirement account. Feedback suggests the multi-layered savings design and clear match mechanics are notable strengths.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO tiers start at 15 days and scale up to 30 days with tenure, alongside defined holidays and floating personal days. Paid family leave for bonding and caregiving further rounds out a well-structured time-off program.

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The Company

HQ: Wayzata, MN

155,000 Employees

Year Founded: 1865

What We Do

We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. 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 flooring. By providing customers with products that are vital for living, we help businesses grow, communities prosper and consumers live well in their daily lives.

Why Work With Us

The decision to join Cargill can open the door to a world of possibility. As part of our Digital, Technology & Data team, you’ll get to be part of a large and diverse group full of unique perspectives united by a common, higher purpose while building a rewarding career full of opportunity, growth and the satisfaction of knowing your work matters.