Trading Engineering Manager
Cargill
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Schiphol • Netherlands
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About the role
- Provides technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of the Corporate Risk Reporting solution, ensuring SQL implementations across base, semantic, and reporting layers meet enterprise standards for correctness, performance, and maintainability.
- Establishes and drives best practices for SQL development, including query optimization, execution plan analysis, data quality validation, and performance tuning, ensuring consistent and scalable engineering outcomes.
- Leads the design and implementation of SQL logic supporting P&L, exposure, pricing, and operational risk calculations, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk canonicals and business definitions.
- Provides architectural leadership to guide data modeling and query design decisions, balancing normalization, performance, scalability, and governance without prescribing fixed implementation patterns.
- Ensures SQL solutions are designed to operate effectively across distributed database environments, supporting horizontal scale and stable performance during peak EOD processing cycles.
- Defines and enforces SQL code quality standards through structured review processes, version control, and CI/CD integration, ensuring controlled change management and auditability.
- Partners with Data Modelers, Data Engineers, Risk SMEs, and platform teams to ensure technical alignment, clear data lineage, and consistent interpretation of risk measures across the enterprise.
- Supports operational readiness and resilience of the risk reporting platform, contributing to issue diagnosis, performance analysis, and continuous improvement during business-critical processing windows.
- Communicates technical direction, trade-offs, and risks clearly to stakeholders and leadership, influencing decisions through expertise rather than formal authority.
Requirements
- Minimum requirement of 8 years of relevant work experience.
- Typically reflects 8–12 years of experience delivering SQL-intensive data solutions at enterprise scale.
- Demonstrated experience designing and optimizing relational data models and SQL logic for complex financial, trading, or risk domains, with a strong track record of technical leadership and engineering governance.
- Expert-level SQL, including advanced window functions, query optimization, and execution plan analysis.
- Strong understanding of distributed data access and query patterns.
- Experience with schema design, data lineage, and governed enterprise data models.
- Proven ability to lead technical design and code governance through reviews and CI/CD workflows.
Benefits
- We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents.
- competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLquery optimizationexecution plan analysisdata quality validationperformance tuningdata modelingrelational data modelsadvanced window functionsCI/CDschema design
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcommunicationinfluencing decisionscollaborationissue diagnosisperformance analysiscontinuous improvement