About the Opportunity
Join Driscoll’s Global R&D team as an R&D Business Application Developer, where your passion for innovation can make a real impact. In this dynamic role, you will spearhead the development of customized business solutions for our global teams, leveraging tools such as Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and AI technologies. Collaborating with our internal greenhouse, farming, plant breeding, and research teams, you will create user-friendly applications throughout all stages of development. Our mission is to streamline data entry, analysis, and workflows, transitioning from Excel and iForm to fully customized software applications for both mobile and desktop environments. We are a small and nimble team that values speed to a fully functional solution, meeting all the internal customer needs.
Responsibilities
• Rapid Development: Utilize Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and AI tools to swiftly create customized applications, incorporating coding where necessary.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct regular check-ins with internal stakeholders to ensure the software development aligns with their needs and expectations.
• Comprehensive Support: Participate in all phases of software development, including discovery, planning, development, testing, go-live, hypercare, and ongoing support.
• Best Practices: Research and recommend best practices to enhance software development efficiency.
• Independent and Collaborative Work: Balance working independently on full applications for some projects, while collaborating closely with team members on other projects.
• User Experience Focus: Propose and implement enhancements to user experience, emphasizing intuitive functionality and visually appealing design.
• Data Visualization: Create insightful graphs and analyses that empower users to make informed decisions.
• Professional Representation: Represent Driscoll’s in a professional and ethical manner in all interactions with growers, colleagues, suppliers, customers, and the broader business community.
Candidate Profile
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience with Power Apps or similar application development tools.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Power BI or Tableau.
Preferred Qualifications & Competencies
• Intermediate knowledge of SharePoint, Power Automate, and Excel preferred.
• Basic understanding of SQL database management, including stored procedures, triggers, and queries.
• Experience in visually mapping business processes for current and future states.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with integration software such as MuleSoft, AWS API Management, or REST APIs.
• A passion for exploring and implementing new technologies.
• Project management education or experience preferred.
• Cultivates Innovation: Finds, champions, and implements innovations, large or small.
• Plans & Aligns: Establishes priorities and desired outcomes and creates plans to achieve them.
• Drives Results: Pursues everything with energy, resourcefulness, and the need to achieve desired outcomes.
• Collaborates: Works with a variety of colleagues, inside and/or outside of Driscoll’s, seeking win-win solutions.
• Additional Skills: Knowledge of Python is a plus.
• Bilingual skills in English and Spanish strongly preferred.
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What We Do
Driscoll’s is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll’s is passionate about growing great tasting berries.
Driscoll’s exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – that means no GMOs. A dedicated team of agronomists, breeders, sensory analysts, plant pathologists and entomologists help grow baby seedlings that are then grown on family farms. Our independent berry growers then work with Mother Nature, using experience and know-how to get the very best out of each strawberry, blueberry, blackberry and raspberry plant.
Driscoll’s is serious about yummy berries! Driscoll’s is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries ™.
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