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The Role
Designs, develops, and maintains trading software and ETL/ELT ingestion pipelines. Integrates market data feeds, ensures production readiness, implements CI/CD and monitoring, debugs high-volume time-sensitive processing, and builds resilient idempotent ingestion frameworks on AWS.
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Job Purpose and Impact
The Professional, Trading Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop software applications and systems that drive the trading operations. With limited supervision, this job participates in co-creation and maintenance of sophisticated software applications vital to our trading activities, collaboration with cross functional teams to conceptualize, design and implement new software features that meet user needs and advance our business objectives, including upgrading existing software by writing clean, efficient and scalable code to improve performance and functionality, and identifying and resolving issues promptly to ensure the seamless operation of the software systems. This job also participates in code reviews and shares insights and knowledge to uphold the standards of excellence.
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
Required Skills:
Mandatory:
Good to Have:
The Professional, Trading Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop software applications and systems that drive the trading operations. With limited supervision, this job participates in co-creation and maintenance of sophisticated software applications vital to our trading activities, collaboration with cross functional teams to conceptualize, design and implement new software features that meet user needs and advance our business objectives, including upgrading existing software by writing clean, efficient and scalable code to improve performance and functionality, and identifying and resolving issues promptly to ensure the seamless operation of the software systems. This job also participates in code reviews and shares insights and knowledge to uphold the standards of excellence.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Implements and partners to design robust trading systems, applying appropriate technologies to write clean, efficient and maintainable code, integrating market data feeds from financial providers and exchanges to process real time data and customizing solutions to align with trading strategies and regulatory requirements.
- AUTOMATION: Implements continuous integration and deployment pipelines to streamline trading software releases, automates moderately complex tests to validate software reliability under various market conditions, and optimizes workflows by automating repetitive tasks to increase operational efficiency.
- COLLABORATION: Collaborates with traders, analysts, and other cross functional teams to gather requirements and deliver needed solutions ensuring technical solutions aligned with business goals, participates in agile practices like standups and sprint planning for effective communication, and shares knowledge through code reviews to support learning and best practices, and explains technical concepts clearly to nontechnical team members.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Partners to develop comprehensive test plans, including unit and integration tests, to validate functionality and performance, applying strong debugging skills to resolve software defects and maintain system integrity, performing moderately complex testing to ensure the system handles high transaction volumes, and collaborates with quality assurance teams members to ensure software meets standards before deployment.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Partners to sustain the commitment to improving system performance, scalability and reliability to ensure systems evolve with changing needs, staying current with industry trends and best in class standards, proactively suggesting improvements to development processes and tools, and integrating users and stakeholders feedback to refine software solutions.
- DOCUMENTATION: Drafts and maintains technical documentation of moderately complex system architecture and development processes, drafting clear technical guides and operation manuals to facilitate ease of use, maintaining compliance with regulations and policies, and assisting with the knowledge base and onboarding and training new team members.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Monitors live trading systems for optimal performance, including addressing moderately complex real time issues promptly, responding quickly to resolve operational problems, minimizing downtime and risk, performing routine maintenance to keep systems secure and efficient, and supporting disaster recovery planning to ensure business continuity during system failures or crises.
- Develop ETL/ELT pipelines with AWS tools (Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, DMS) and implement direct-to-Aurora ingestion strategies for snapshots and deltas. Ensure referential integrity, correct ordering, idempotency, and recovery, build monitoring, validation, and reconciliation frameworks. Manage scaling and throughput during EOD ingestion peaks.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 3 years of relevant work experience, typically reflecting 5+ years in data engineering, data integration, or related roles.
- Proven track record of building resilient, idempotent ingestion frameworks.
- Experiences in supporting high-volume, time-sensitive processing, especially EOD workloads
- Strong operational mindset, including monitoring, alerting, and maintaining runbooks.
Required Skills:
Mandatory:
- Expert-level SQL development and performance optimization
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Hands-on experience with ETL pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
- Solid understanding of ACID-compliant data ingestion principles.
- Experience with schema evolution and CDC (Change Data Capture) patterns.
- Experience owning production readiness and end-to-end solution delivery
Good to Have:
- Experience with SAP ODP or enterprise data replication technologies.
- Familiarity with distributed PostgreSQL systems.
- Exposure to event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).
- Exposure to cloud-native architectures and AWS-based platforms
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years relevant experience (role typically reflects 5+ years in data engineering)
- Proven track record building resilient, idempotent ingestion frameworks
- Expert-level SQL development and performance optimization
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
- Hands-on experience with ETL pipelines and orchestration frameworks
- Solid understanding of ACID-compliant data ingestion principles
- Experience with schema evolution and CDC (Change Data Capture) patterns
- Experience supporting high-volume, time-sensitive processing and EOD workloads
- Experience owning production readiness, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and end-to-end delivery
- Experience with AWS data tools: Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, DMS, and Aurora ingestion strategies
- Ability to build monitoring, validation, and reconciliation frameworks and ensure referential integrity and idempotency
- Experience with SAP ODP or enterprise data replication technologies
- Familiarity with distributed PostgreSQL systems
- Exposure to event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka)
- Exposure to cloud-native architectures and AWS-based platforms
What the Team is Saying
Gaby
Data Engineering Lead
Landon
North America Service Assurance Manager
Navita
Software Engineering Senior Supervisor
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William Orgertrice
Data Engineer
Kayode D.
Principal Data Engineer
Patricia
Supply Chain Learning & Development and Digital Support Lead
Heather W.
Software Engineer
Kristen K.
Factory of the Future Digital Product Manager
Shrey B.
Senior Software Engineer
Madhuri P.
Senior Data Scientist
William Orgertrice
Data Engineer — Data Function, Platforms and Product Engineering
Navita S.
Software Engineering Senior Supervisor
Heather W.
Software Engineer
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Cargill Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Two-layer retirement program combines a 401(k) match (100% on the first 3%, 50% on the next 2%) with an employer-funded Employee Retirement Account of roughly 2.5–7% based on age and service. Match is delivered quarterly in company stock and the ERA adds long-term value through additional employer contributions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO starts at 15 days and scales to 30 days with tenure, governed by a clear June 1–May 31 cycle. This structured ladder provides predictable time away as service grows.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid family leave offers up to 6 weeks to bond with a new child and 4 weeks to care for a family member or qualifying military needs. Additional supports such as Bright Horizons childcare solutions and Milk Stork reinforce family care.
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The Company
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.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
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