Senior Application Developer Jobs in Minnesota

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 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s 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 thing—today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Application Developer is a seasoned professional responsible for leading and supporting the design, integration, and implementation of scalable ERP solutions that align with strategic business objectives. This role acts as a critical bridge between functional requirements and technical execution, ensuring solutions are designed for scalability, resilience, and long‑term growth.

The role is accountable for leading and executing application design, configuration, implementation, and maintenance of cross‑functional applications, while ensuring end‑to‑end integration and adherence to governance standards across the systems landscape. Strong experience delivering large and complex enterprise‑scale applications is required, with SAP experience preferred. Operating with minimal supervision, and guiding & mentoring more junior team members, this role performs and oversees testing, quality assurance, configuration, and ongoing production support, ensuring stable, high‑quality, and timely delivery of solutions.

Key Accountabilities

• APPLICATION CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT: Builds and drives complex application configurations to meet user and business requirements while identifying improvements to complex application support processes and procedures.
• APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT: Performs and drives the design, configuration, testing, deployment, and support of changes and fixes, in accordance with established standards and practices.
• COMMUNICATION & SUPPORT: Plays a key role and keeps an open channel of communication with stakeholders and responds to support requests and needs.
• APPLICATION SUPPORT: Conducts and leads advanced and complex application support activities to maintain system stability and meet business outcomes.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Collaborates effectively with business partners, technical peers, & vendors in multi-functional global teams, to ensure solutions and configurations align with business requirements and best practices.
• INCIDENT & REQUEST MANAGEMENT: Leads prioritization of incoming incident tickets & user requests and driving timely resolution.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ERP & DOMAIN EXPERTISE: Solid hands‑on experience with enterprise‑scale applications (ERP preferred) in a techno‑functional capacity, demonstrating strong solution design and delivery capabilities. Deep knowledge of, and experience within, one or more ERP business domains (Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Agriculture, Finance etc.)
• FULL LIFE CYCLE IMPLEMENTATION: Proven experience delivering large and complex application implementations (eg. ERP) across the full lifecycle, including system design and implementation, deployment, go‑live, and post‑go‑live stabilization and support, leveraging Agile, Scrum and/or DevOps practices.
• PROGRAMMING & CUSTOMIZATION: Knowledge and/or experience with languages such as Java, C#, Python, or platform specific scripting (eg. ABAP for SAP) for application customization and experience with various pipelines, is preferred.
• DATA MIGRATION & INTEGRATION: Experience with data migration strategies and large scale data transfers from legacy systems, including ETL processes.

Short Description

Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.

The expected salary for this position is $95,000 - $145,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance. At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.