Senior Consultant - Application Development (Food)

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

• The Senior Consultant - Application Development is a senior individual contributor within the Digital Technology and Data team responsible for Salesforce Data 360 engineering and operations. This role enables the trusted commercial data platform that fuels AI-powered seller, service, and customer experiences. The role designs, configures, integrates, automates, secures, monitors, and continuously improves Salesforce Data 360 capabilities supporting Food CRM and Agentforce use cases.
  This role owns complex platform capabilities across data ingestion, data modeling, identity resolution, harmonization, Data Spaces, governed data access, activation, deployment automation, observability, reliability, and consumption management. The engineer partners with product teams, data owners, architects, security, privacy, finance, and Salesforce engineering teams to ensure Data 360 is reliable, secure, cost-effective, and aligned with measurable Food business outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

• • DATA 360 PLATFORM: Design, configure, integrate, automate, and operate Salesforce Data 360 capabilities, including Data Streams, Data Lake Objects, Data Model Objects, Data Spaces, identity resolution, calculated insights, segmentation, activation, and data actions.
  • SALESFORCE DATA MODELING & QUALITY: Define maintainable commercial data models and engineer controls for completeness, duplication, timeliness, referential integrity, identity matching, reconciliation, and source-system exceptions.
  • INTEGRATION ENGINEERING: Build and support governed batch, API, event-driven, streaming, and federated or zero-copy integration patterns across Salesforce CRM, SAP, Microsoft 365, cloud data platforms, and enterprise services.
  • PLATFORM AUTOMATION & DEVOPS: Treat platform metadata and configuration as governed assets using source control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, environment promotion, release controls, and rollback.
  • SECURITY, PRIVACY & GOVERNANCE: Implement least-privilege access, Data Spaces, tags, classifications, permission sets, object and field policies, audit controls, lineage, consent, retention, and separation of duties.
  • RELIABILITY & OPERATIONS: Establish service measures, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, root-cause analysis, replay, recovery, incident response, and preventive improvements for a business-critical platform.
  • CONSUMPTION & FINOPS: Monitor and forecast Data 360 and Agentforce credit consumption, define usage thresholds and alerts, attribute cost by product or business domain, and recommend engineering optimizations based on cost, quality, and business value.
  • AI & AGENTFORCE ENABLEMENT: Prepare governed structured and unstructured context for AI use cases and partner with Agentforce engineers on grounding, permissions, action boundaries, evaluation, observability, and human approval requirements.
  • TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP: Independently lead complex platform initiatives, document architecture decisions and trade-offs, coach engineers, review technical work, and influence platform standards and operating practices.

Qualifications

• At least four years of relevant experience in platform engineering, data engineering, application development, integration engineering, or enterprise data-platform operations.
• Hands-on experience implementing or operating Salesforce Data 360, Salesforce Data Cloud, a customer data platform, or a comparable enterprise cloud data platform.

• Experience with data ingestion, data modeling, identity resolution, harmonization, data quality, APIs, and batch or streaming integration.

• Advanced SQL skills and experience troubleshooting complex data pipelines, integrations, mappings, and reconciliation issues.

• Experience with DevOps practices including source control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, environment management, monitoring, and rollback.

• Experience implementing data-security, privacy, permission, audit, lineage, and governance controls.
• Experience supporting a production platform through incidents, root-cause analysis, monitoring, recovery, and continuous reliability improvement.
• Experience estimating, monitoring, forecasting, or optimizing consumption-based cloud-platform costs.

• Preferred Qualifications:
  
  • Salesforce Certified Data 360 Consultant certification. Salesforce Platform Developer I, Salesforce Administrator, Integration Architect, MuleSoft, or Agentforce certification.
  • Experience with Data 360 Data Spaces, Data Cloud One, zero-copy data access, calculated insights, activations, data actions, packaging, and data kits.
  • Experience with Digital Wallets, FinOps, consumption allocation, forecasting, usage thresholds, rate limits, or cost optimization.

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Compensation Data
The expected salary for this position is $100,000 - $140,000. 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-wellnessto learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions) .
Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.