Solution Architect

Company: Bunge Iberica SA
Location: Saint Louis
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:Solution ArchitectDate: Jan 16, 2025Location: BAL - SEDERequisition Number: 36988Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for Sr. Solution Architect. In this role, you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology, and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster, and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world - creating world-class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.At Bunge, people don't just come here to work; they come here to grow - solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect.Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative, and efficient.Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably.Overview:The Solution Architect at Bunge is a technology-focused position requiring a deep understanding of both application and systems architecture, with an emphasis on the latter. The Senior Solution Architect will have a significant impact on the company's technology landscape, providing technical leadership, setting, and overseeing solutions with both internal teams and third-party partners. This role is crucial to the systems build team and the broader company technology organization, collaborating closely with other senior and non-senior solution architects, enterprise architecture, business technology partners, business and system analysts, stakeholders, and business and engineering groups. This individual contributor role focuses primarily on technology solution aspects.Bunge builds systems for a diverse range of business domains, including Supply Chain, Freight, Logistics, Commercial, Agribusiness, Food Solutions, Origination, Sustainability, Financial and Credit, Risk, Industrial Operations, Safety, and Corporate Systems (HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and more). Bunge welcomes candidates from various technology backgrounds who have a passion for learning and growth.Essential Functions:

• This is a hands-on technology role (not a business or pre-sales).
• Passion for technology and its application to solve real-world business challenges is essential.
• Requires a combined application and systems architecture skillset, prioritizing systems architecture and the broader technological landscape while maintaining proficiency in application architecture. Candidates with systems architecture experience are preferred.
• Solution Architecture responsibility spans numerous company-wide products across various business domains.
• Substantial influence on the company's technology landscape.
• Mentorship and guidance to less senior team members, fostering their professional growth.
• Establishment and maintenance of architectural and engineering technology standards across the company.
• Ownership of technology roadmaps and technical product definitions.
• Key role in establishing and upholding engineering practices company-wide.
• Proactive and accountable, taking ownership of end-to-end solution architecture and effectively translating business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Demonstrated advanced problem-solving skills.
• Close collaboration with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment of solutions with the overall company technology strategy.
• Proven ability to effectively engage diverse engineering functions, business stakeholders, and third-party technology partners in collaborative solution design.
• Establishes technology standards and best practices, ensuring high-quality solution design and implementation (performance, scalability, security, maintainability, documentation).
• Leads technical engagement with third-party partners, validating solutions and ensuring adherence to company technology standards.
• Maintains a technology-agnostic mindset grounded in practical experience, with a solid technical foundation in one or more of the following areas:
• Java, .NET, or other ecosystems.
• SAP.
• Integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Tibco, SAP BTP).
• Structured and unstructured data concepts.
• BI solutions (e.g., Tableau, MS Power BI).Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is required. A Master's degree is a plus.
  • 12+ years of experience in technology.
  • 5+ years of experience in Solution, Systems, or Application Architecture.
  • Excellent English language proficiency for daily communication.
  • Understanding of design patterns and modern architectures (e.g., microservices, micro frontends).
  • Experience with relevant tools and platforms like Azure DevOps or Bamboo.
  • Solid understanding of industry-standard protocols and formats (e.g., RESTful, SOAP, XML, JSON, AMQP, JMS, delimited, OAuth).
  • Good knowledge of API and integration layers, including API patterns, queues, and messaging.
  • Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle).
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and best practices, including Scrum framework experience.
  • Practical experience with code review, refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, and highly scalable applications.
  • Engaged, focused, goal-oriented, and committed to a culture of trust, transparency, and teamwork.Bunge (NYSE: BG) is a world leader in sourcing, processing, and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients. Founded in 1818, Bunge's expansive network feeds and fuels a growing world, creating sustainable products and opportunities for more than 70,000 farmers and the consumers they serve across the globe. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and has 25,000 employees worldwide who stand behind more than 350 port terminals, oilseed processing plants, grain facilities, and food and ingredient production and packaging facilities around the world.Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or military or veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities/Women/Veterans/DisabledJob Segment: Solution Architect, Sustainable Agriculture, Developer, Agricultural, Architecture, Technology, Agriculture, Engineering
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