ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided Link

Purpose of the role

The Commercial Capabilities team is seeking a Senior software developer to join the team in support of our NRO (National retail organization) business and other related areas. The role would be responsible for providing support for business admin and information screens which drive functionality for hundreds of field reps, enhance those screens as business needs change, create internal capabilities, develop, and schedule nightly jobs to refresh data, and migrate existing screens from older solutions to a new tech stack. To achieve this, the engineer would analyze existing functionality, learn from partner developers and analysts, clarify requirements, and collaborate directly with analysts or business partners.

The ideal candidate should have effective communication skills, demonstrated ability to learn modern technologies, solid business acumen, bias towards documenting and knowledge sharing, and be able to work and make decisions in a demanding environment. In addition, the ability to teach and mentor existing staff grow their skills in new technical areas is desired.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Accountable for learning third party applications, internal reporting, system and business process, rules, and logic, as well as developing knowledge of system architecture
• Work directly with the business Analyst and Business, apply sound technical solutions to build and test functional specifications and implement and maintain reporting and functionality.
• Provide timely, personal, and efficient response to user problems and inquiries.
• Work within agile product team to develop user stories and tasks within the analyst's workstream.
• Apply Agile Methodology to deploy change requirements via preferred methods accounting for priorities, time, and resources.
• Perform code quality checks and clearly communicate to business teams existing problems with proposed solutions and timing.
• Analyzing data sources to determine how to connect them in our environment.
• Own documentation, troubleshooting, support, and coordination with team.
• Help other developers on team & collaborate with all stakeholders of the team to deliver key priorities.
• Continuously develop knowledge of evolving best practices through self-development and other educational opportunities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 8 years of software development in a collaborative corporate environment (8+ years preferred)
• The candidate should have working and fluency in
• .NET Core, C#, Entity Framework or Dapper, SQL, MVC, Docker, Kubernetes, Blazor Webassembly.
• Should have knowledge and understanding on DevOps and be able to configure Jenkins/GitHub Actions and knowledge on Azure DevOps.
• Experienced in at least one JavaScript framework technology (Example: React JS, Vue).
• Implemented SOLID principles.
• Have knowledge and have used some of the Design patterns in their code.
• Additional skills, like knowledge of Python, BigQuery
• Should have understanding and knowledge on cloud fundamentals and tools and have used either GCP, Azure or AWS.
• Candidates preferred with working knowledge of Blazor webassembly, PostgreSQL and have worked in GCP (GKE, BigQuery) is an added advantage.
• Experience building transactional interfaces to view and change data sets that ultimately reside in Datawarehouse.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis and identify problem trends.
• Effective communication skills- verbal and written with ability to present complex messages and trade-offs and tell a compelling story.
• Self-managing, results-oriented, and capable of leading multiple initiatives simultaneously through rigorous prioritization.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, influencing and communication skills (written and oral)
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and support systems, as well as partner with technical team to design and implement.
• Excellent problem solver with ability to lead the team to push the solution and progress.
• Self-managing, results-oriented, and capable of leading multiple initiatives simultaneously through rigorous prioritization
• Excellent analytical skills & stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/Electronics/Electrical from Tier 1 institute

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Understanding of Object-Oriented programming skills and design principals
• .NET Core, C#, Entity Framework or Dapper, SQL, MVC, Docker, Kubernetes, Blazor Webassembly.
• Knowledge and experience with Understanding of Commercial/Sales business area, Trade promotion management etc.