Delivery Manager Data Platform Engineering
Job Location:
Atlanta, GA - USA
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Job Summary
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 155000 team members innovate with purpose providing customers with lifes 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 thingtoday and for generations to come.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Delivery Manager is accountable for the performance of the data platform delivery teams. This role supports portfolio and project management practices to support consistent predictable delivery for Cargills data platform. This position coordinates execution by managing dependencies monitoring delivery progress and enabling teams to work effectively. While this role does not define product strategy or vision it ensures alignment readiness and successful execution of planned work. The role also proactively provides visibility into commitments risks and progress to engineering leadership and business stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities
- Collaborate with business leadership to define program objectives shape the transformation roadmap and prioritize initiatives based on strategic financial and organizational considerations supporting progress toward established goals.
- Facilitate strategic prioritization discussions with senior leaders helping ensure trade-offs are understood and decisions support execution readiness.
- Support flow and predictability by coordinating execution managing cross-team dependencies and promoting clarity around timelines and deliverables.
- Use roadmaps as inputs to guide planning and alignment across teams helping ensure work is sequenced and actionable. Support consistent execution practices by coaching teams and reinforcing effective delivery approaches.
- Track and monitor delivery metrics and execution progress identifying risks supporting resolution of discrepancies and promoting shared accountability across teams.
- Establish and facilitate cross-functional project and program review forums connecting execution progress delivery outcomes and financial performance to budgets and forecasts.
- Provide guidance to project leads (including Scrum Masters where applicable) and support stakeholder engagement to maintain alignment and coordination across the portfolio.
- Support teams implement change management activities to support transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of portfolio and project management practices in alignment with company frameworks and governance standards.
- Address complex execution resource and delivery challenges with appropriate judgment while escalating issues when needed.
- Serves as the single point of accountability for delivery-related escalation ramp-ups ramp-downs and cross-team coordination.
- Drives scaled agile events across an organization of delivery teams.
- Implement and maintain a delivery risk-management strategy enabling proactive decisions across the full lifecycle.
- Uphold governance for delivery management including change management release management and incident/problem management.
- Support FinOps practices for the platform including cost-allocation and optimization initiatives.
Qualifications
Required 4 years of relevant experience typically reflects 5 years or more.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in technology delivery program management or engineering management roles with at least 3 years specifically leading in data.
- Proven track record delivering complex data platform projects end-to-end (warehouse migrations lakehouse build-outs streaming pipelines BI platform launches or similar).
- Strong working knowledge of the modern data stack including at least several of: AWS Sagemaker Unified Studio Snowflake DBT Airflow Astronomer Confluent Kafka Atlan DataDog.
- Deep experience in Agile Scrum Kanban methodologies; experience scaling Agile scorss multiple squads (SAFe experience a plus).
- Demonstrated ability to manage budgets vendor contracts and cross-functional stakeholders at Director/VP level.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to interpret and use data (such as delivery metrics financials or timelines) to inform planning identify risks and improve outcomes.
The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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About Company
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.
