General Mills

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Shift Timings : Regular

About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. The awards and recognition we’ve received showcase our commitment to be a force for good:

• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022
• America’s Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021
• Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022
• 100 Best Companies, Seramount 2021
• Diversity Best Practices Leading Inclusion Index, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Dads, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Multicultural Women, Seramount 2021
• Top 10 Companies for Executive Women, Seramount 2021
• Military Friendly Employer Bronze, VIQTORY 2021
• Best Place to Work, Canada, Greater Toronto, 2021
• Top 50 – India’s Best Workplaces for Women, 2021
• Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021
• Asia’s Best Workplaces, 2021

Hungry for What’s Next

We exist to make food the world loves, and it shows. Our passion for people, doing good and creating delicious food has energized us for over 150 years. Breaking away from the pack is how we win, so we need your unique perspectives: your quirks, ‘crazy’ ideas, rigor and insatiable curiosity to make it happen. We want people who constantly experiment, embracing the new and bold, who keep pushing to turn ideas into reality, no matter how big or small. We’ve learned becoming the undisputed leader in food means continuously reshaping, reimagining and rebuilding— that only happens when you surround yourself with those who are hungry for what’s next.

For more details check out www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Centre

General Mills India Center (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The center was established in 2005 and has grown in strength. Today, we are a vibrant and diverse team of over 1500 employees that come together to champion business services for the various global entities of General Mills in the areas of Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Logistics, Finance, IT Development & Technology Consulting, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Sales Capabilities, Research & Development.

Digital and Technology team

Digital and Technology is the largest team in GIC, which focuses on understanding the latest and innovative trends in technology and leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies at General Mills. The team closely collaborates with global business teams to understand business models and assess where technology can leveraged to bring efficiency and disruption. Be it AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain or Enterprise Architecture, GIC Digital and Technology has something for every technology enthusiast who wants to work here. Our MillsWorks initiative is where we bring agile@scale delivery model to life. Here, business and technology teams work cohesively in pods as ONE team, driven by a singular mission and focused on delivering value for the Company. Our employees, who work on large technology projects of strategic importance, are the Digital Transformation change agents.

Our service partnerships and employee engagement are centered on advancing equity and strengthening communities. We believe in an inclusive culture and trust in the power of people who have a passion for learning and growing with technology. We believe in “Work with Heart”. Work with Heart is focused on results, not facetime. If you are passionate about the latest in technology and want to make an impact on the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company, we're waiting for you.

Job Overview

Role: Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Integration

Location: Mumbai

• Join the Enterprise Integration Technologies team in delivering global world-class Application to Application (A2A) and Business to Business (B2B) EDI and application integration solutions.
• The candidate should have Indepth working knowledge / experience on webmethod administration & communication tools like MoveIt.
• Candidate should have an experience to do scripting in python, shell etc.
• Candidate should have an experience in working with cloud platforms like (GCP). The individual should know cloud very well & have an experience on various cloud deployments
• The individual should be familiar with the industry standards and should be exploring the new features and road map for the integration tools
• Should be familiar with Infrastructure as a code tools, provisioning tools and cloud monitoring tools usage and administration.
• The individual shall play critical role on IaaS platform design, deployment & administration SoP, help in building capability for cloud.
• Individual should be able to partner with the Solution teams and guide them in designing the Application architecture and also define the functional and technical specification
• The candidate should be able to work through others in implementing the solutions and guide junior team members to achieve the organizational strategy.

Role Responsibilities

• Technical lead for Enterprise Integration Team.
• Accountable for operational health and wellness of the Enterprise Integration Applications like Webmethods, As2, MoveIT.

o Define road map and the application evolution of the integration applications

o Perform and guide administrative tasks on enterprise Integration applications.

o Perform capacity planning for the tool set.

o Provide guidance in Performance tuning and optimization of Tool platform.

o Responsible for the application layer. Work closely with other IT infrastructure teams on OS and Network layers.

• Provide consulting to internal clients on how to deploy content to the server platforms.
• Individual should be able to partner with the Solution teams and guide them in designing the Application architecture and also define the functional and technical specification
• Collect and share knowledge with stakeholders on tool standards and best practices through various sources including our internal virtual training site .
• Define and ensure the governance of standards, best practices and processes on Enterprise Integration applications
• Guide team members & provide help to cross team members

o Guide team members by providing valuable inputs & also by making them understand the need of change

o Act as a subject matter expert to solve critical issue & document the same

o Work on innovation and automation to reduce mundane work

• Work on better implementation and administration plan on integration applications
• Innovation, Automation and continuous next. Continuous Improvement of team processes
• Create new rituals, best practices to implement various cloud strategies.
• Find innovative ideas to build sustainable , reliable and resilient cloud platforms for application.
• Providing end user self-service solutions
• Monitoring and reporting of key infrastructure components
• Reduce on-call tasks and requests by proactively targeting problem areas
• Monitoring Industry Trends and finding the ways to adopt the same to the organization.
• Provide technical leadership forWebmethods, MoveIt and Gateway Interchange (AS2) upgrades.
• Understand US/UK/Mumbai EDI Analyst & Mapper needs of the webMethods Enterprise Application Integration platform.
• Guide team members & provide help to cross team members
• Guide team members by providing valuable inputs & also by making them understand the need of change
• Act as a subject matter expert to solve critical issue & document the same

Must - have technical skills and experience

Education 

Minimum Degree Requirements: 

Bachelors

Preferred Degree Requirements: 

Bachelors

Preferred Major Area of Study:

Required Professional Certifications:

Preferred Professional Certifications:

WebMethods administration

Experience 

Minimum years of related experience required:

12+ supporting/delivering complex IT solutions

Preferred years of related experience:

12+ supporting/delivering complex IT solutions

Competency in the following technologies and platforms:

• Hands on experience on Webmethod administration
• Experience administering high availability mission critical systems
• Ability to communicate nature and impacts of outages, and escalate internally or with vendors as necessary.
• Problem solving mindset focused on root cause analysis/solves
• Managed File Transfer (MFT) activities in the following systems:
• FTP / SFTP
• AS2
• NTF / NetNTF
• Linux and powershell scripting
• IXOS administration

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of EDI standards, XML, and Flatfile integration
• Understanding of network, e-mail (Exchange and Ironport) technologies
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET or C#
• SQL/Oracle development experience including relational design principles and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and the software development life cycle
• HTML, XHTML, CSS
• Java
• Javascript/JSON/JQuery
• Version control tools (TFS a plus)
• SAP ABAP development & PI understanding.
• webMethods Flow (language)
• Phython
• Any cloud can be added advantage

Good to have skills

• Takes accountability for delivering on personal and shared commitments.
• Asks bold questions and challenge assumptions at all levels in the organization
• Proactively identifies new insights and perspectives;
• Uses cross-functional knowledge and influence to effectively execute team plans
• Models and encourages an open, honest, and constructive exchange of diverse view points
• Provides peers with constructive and actionable feedback
• Actively seeks out opportunities to gain breadth of experience
• embraces new assignments to build new skills and challenge self; inspires others to try new things and develop new skills
• Has self-insight into personal strengths and weaknesses; works actively to develop and improve where needed
• Is seen as someone with high integrity and a trusted member of the team
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment as well as independently
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
• High initiative with desire to understand the General Mills’ business and a willingness to learn and use multiple tools to solve business problems
• Self-starter, results oriented, able to execute multiple projects simultaneously
• Understanding of and ability to operate within Advantage project management methodology

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

Webmethods, MoveIT, As2/Axway, EDI standards, XML, and Flatfile integration, FTP / SFTP, NTF / NetNTF, Linux and powershell scripting, IXOS administration

• GCP cloud architecture
• Other integration tools used in industry

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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