Role Description
Location Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America Category IT & Business Services Job Id Req-039046 Job Type Full time Office Reporting to the Director of Information Technology, you will embed with cross-functional business teams across supply chain, trade, manufacturing, and finance to identify high-value use cases and deliver solutions inside Palantir Foundry. You will operate across domains, contributing to the enterprise’s most important business challenges by translating business needs into scalable data solutions. You will partner closely with stakeholders to design, build, and deploy data products that enable better decision-making.
A Taste of Your Responsibilities
- Work directly alongside business stakeholders to surface problems, define requirements, and design solutions without relying on a formal intake process
- Develop, test, and maintain data pipelines and transformations in Palantir Foundry using Python and PySpark
- Design and maintain Ontology Objects, Links, Actions, and Interfaces that reflect real business entities and relationships
- Build Workshop applications, operational data products, and workflows that drive business decisions
- Implement automated data validation, monitoring, and lineage to ensure data quality and trust
- Partner with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to increase overall team effectiveness and output
- Translate between business and technical stakeholders to align on priorities and deliver clear solutions
- Apply systems thinking to data architecture, ensuring scalability and alignment with downstream use
Ingredients Required for Your Success
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data transformation and pipeline development
- Hands-on experience with PySpark in a production environment
- Experience with Palantir Foundry, including ontology design, workflows, or Workshop applications, or a track record of learning complex platforms quickly
- Understanding of data modeling concepts and how upstream decisions impact downstream consumers
- Strong communication skills with experience presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working with cross-functional business teams to define problems and deliver solutions
- Knowledge of complex industries such as consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, retail, or similar environments
Number of Days in Office: 3
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Compensation
Pay Range:$94,300-$138,000 *The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.*
Our Benefits
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
- Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
- Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
- Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
- Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
Our Company
At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.
Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.
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