Solution Architect

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for a 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 opportunity 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:

We are looking for an experienced and highly technical professional to join the Business Technology (BT) organization. A Solution Architect creates the overall technical vision for a specific solution to a business problem. They design, describe, and validate the development of the solution. In many ways, this person builds the bridge between a business problem and the technology solution, and outlines each of the phases and requirements required to make that solution work.

Essential Functions:

• Solution Design and Development: Design and guide the development of innovative, globally scalable, efficient and secure solutions such as financial, logistic or manufacturing applications within Bunge. Design, debug, and monitor performance of solutions.
• Technical leadership: Providing technical leadership to Agile teams and/or DevOps teams throughout the project lifecycle. Identifying the right technologies to use on various projects while considering their performance, price and service agreements.
• Documentation and Communication: Documenting and sharing knowledge on best practices for new solutions.
• Proof-of-Concept and Validation. Developing proof-of-concept projects to validate your proposed solutions. Bring a new and alternative perspective when reviewing and validating solutions designs from other team members.
• Strategy: Advise and support business technology leaders to understand, apply, monetize and operationalize existing, new, and emerging technologies to transform automation requirements into scalable and resilient solutions. Demonstrate thought leadership & influence beyond the scope of your own team and throughout Bunge.

Requirements: Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education & experience required, computer science degree preferred.
• 11+ year of experience in developing large scale, global solutions and leveraging methodologies such Agile, Scrum and DevSecOps.
• 5+ years of experience required in a similar architectural position, having experience with frameworks like TOGAF ADM. Knowledge of a modeling language like ArchiMate is a pre.
• Advanced programming skills including automation systems and databases.
• Familiarity with diverse range of both backend and frontend programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, SQL, TypeScript, React, CSS and HTML.
• Integrate cloud automation solutions into CI/CD pipelines and software delivery processes. Knowledge of Azure DevOps is a pre
• Ability to manage own work and coach and review the work of others.
• Strong teamwork skills, able to provide technical guidance and support to other team members.
• Demonstrated experience in analysis of alternatives and presenting to stakeholders for buy-in and consensus.
• Build partnerships, appropriately influence to gain commitment, foster talent and coach others to grow in current or future roles.
• A drive and willingness to keep learning Architecture, technologies and methodologies that are new in the market
• Have a keen eye on details. Your solution designs must be well balanced between workable, pragmatic and future proof.

Other Requirements

• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• English spoken at a level that allows discussions and engagement in advanced technical dialogue, is required.
• Second language of Spanish and/or Portuguese is considered a plus

At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of ~37,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com.

Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:

•    We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
•    We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
•    We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity

If this sounds like you, join us!  We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge