Job Description

About Land O\'LakesLand OLakes, Inc. is a 100-year-old farmer owned cooperative originally formed with the purpose of working together to create new market opportunities for dairy producers. Our journey began in 1921, when 320 dairy farmers met in St. Paul, Minnesota, to form the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association. Their idea was simple: join together to effectively market and distribute members dairy production across the country.Today, our four businesses give us a farmer-to-fork view of agriculture. Paired with our co-op ownership model, were uniquely qualified to fulfill our purpose of feeding human progress.Were looking for big thinkers and big dreamers to help us imagine the future of food and agriculture.Be a part of a Fortune 500, $17 billion farmer-owned cooperative that is actively shaping the food and agriculture industry for the better. Join us in solving some of the worlds most important food challenges.About ANSR:Land O\'Lakes has partnered with ANSR to setup their GCC in India. You will be employed by ANSR until Land O\'Lakes GCC is operationally ready. The transition from ANSR to Land O\'Lakes GCC is targeted to be completed within the next two years.About our Client Land O\'Lakes:For over 100 years, Land O\'Lakes, while primarily known for its contributions to the dairy industry, has also embraced technology to enhance its agricultural operations. From utilizing advanced analytics for crop management to implementing precision farming techniques, Land O\'Lakes integrates technology into various aspects of its operations. Moreover, the cooperative invests in innovative solutions such as digital tools and artificial intelligence to optimize production processes and improve efficiency across its supply chain.Land O\'Lakes is looking for big thinkers and big dreamers to help them imagine the future of food and agriculture.Summary:Land OLakes is looking to add a Lead Data Engineer to our Supply chain control tower product team. The lead data engineer will design & execute solutions and work with a team of engineers to ensure consistent, reliable, efficient and sustainable solutions are delivered. The data engineer will also contribute towards improving data management processes that result in highly accurate and trusted data assets for use in Supply chain and across the organization.Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field
• 7+ years of experience with SQL & data engineering techniques.
• 7+ years of experience building data integration solutions using tools like Informatica, Talend, Mulesoft, Qlik, etc.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering resources
• Strong experience in working with heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets using various data integration technologies (ETL/ELT, data replication/CDC, message-oriented data movement, API design, etc.)
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and Databricks
• Hands on experience with programming languages such as Python, SQL to create automated processes for data gathering, cleansing, reporting, and visualization
• Experience in working with Cloud data warehouse like Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse or Google BigQuery.
• Collaborate with cross functional team to resolve data quality and operational issues.
• Demonstrating best practices for code development and optimization, unit testing, CI/CD, performance testing, capacity planning, documentation, monitoring, alerting, and incident response in order to ensure data availability, data quality, usability and required performance.

Required Competencies / skills:

• Ability to obtain a clear understanding of business needs and value, mapping out the solution, and working on its implementation.
• Ability to collaborate across all levels and areas of the product & business team as well as perform hands-on implementation.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills, including the ability to distill highly technical concepts and communicate them effectively to non-technical stakeholders
• Capable of using agile methodology and implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Exposure to data vault method, model, and architecture
• Ability to monitor the overall data landscape: meta data, processing patterns, and data quality
• Ability to work closely with developers and data analysts to design and optimize data access, query, reporting and analysis strategies to solve complex business problems
• Ability to proactively communicate and manage technology and projects risks
• Troubleshooting skills, ability to determine impacts, ability to resolve complex issues, and ability to exercise sound judgment and initiative in challenging situations
• Perform root cause analysis when there are issues
• Ability to proactively communicate and manage technology and projects risks
• Troubleshooting skills, ability to determine impacts, ability to resolve complex issues, and ability to exercise sound judgment and initiative in challenging situations.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline; or an equivalent combination of demonstrated skills and experience
• Experience working with Qlik technologies (Replicate and Compose)
• Experience with any scripting languages, preferably Python
• Experience working using agile methodologies
• Experience in Manufacturing, Retail or Agriculture industry

Preferred Competencies / Skills:

• Ability to work closely with business partners to influence decisions on technology investments
• Ability to provide technical leadership to evangelize best practices/proven patterns and promote the use of Corporate IT standards
• Working knowledge of data privacy regulations including GDPR and CCPA as well as how to design solutions to drive compliance

Disclaimer: Land O Lakes is a client of ANSR. All employees will initially be employed by ANSR with the intent to transition to Land O\'Lakes within the next two years.

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