Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

LDC is pursuing an exciting digital journey, driving industrialization of IT delivery, and innovating with cutting-edge technology (Cloud, AI and Machine Learning, Agile DevOps/ SecOps, data mesh, etc.).

Our DT&A (Digital Technology and Analytics) strategy has already achieved significant value driving innovation, efficiency, agility, and speed to market. Our research and BI capabilities have driven superior decision making, but there is much more still to be achieved, and we need great people to make this happen.

Within the global DT&A organization, you will be offered unique projects with opportunities to grow and develop in a collaborative, fast-moving, vibrant, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Our DT&A Front Office Team is looking for a Business Analyst/Product Owner for our Front Office Services line to be based in Lyon.

As part of a dynamic and agile team, you will act as change booster and lead business process transformation in the domain, working on our International Trade and Execution Front Office solution (ATLAS Grains & Oilseeds) and modernization of regional Front Office solutions

These solutions are the cornerstone of our trading systems. Interlinking all our core business functions (Trading, Execution, Accounting, Treasury, Controlling), with a global presence spread all around the world, accessing the application 24/7.

Job Description

Main responsibilities:

What will be your mission?

• Act as DT&A Data migration lead, your main activities will be:
  • Define the scope & strategy & planification of the migrations with the regions
  • Understand business requirements and translate into a mapping for the API with the regions.
  • Refine the data migration requirements with dev team.
  • Follow-up of all issues coming from iterative dry runs.
  • Help regional team to do the first reconciliation.
  • Participate to the migration over the weekends and find solutions during the weekend when needed (script or anything else).

What will be your duties & responsibilities?

• Learn and understand Atlas V2 data model and existing migration tools and process
• Acquire the sufficient level of understanding of the legacy system to be able to properly migrate data
• Coordinate communication between Global, Regional IT teams, internal LDC teams that might be involved in the data migration.
• Ensure data migration are properly documented and with adequate reference material
• Actively participate in ATLAS Deployment/Rollout activities as per the project requirements.

More specifically oversee:

• Functional and technical Specifications: Review and finalize functional specifications. Refine with Dev team.
• Testing and reconciliation: Provide guidance and support the regional business during the test campaigns.
• Process Improvement: Identification of process improvements to the data migration activity.
• Level 3 Support: Provide level 3 support. Investigate reported issues, confirm business impact/urgency, and properly categorize the incidents on data migration
• Build and Maintain data management and data migration tools and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in business or computer science
• 5+ years of experience in Migration and/or Data analyst and/or with API
• 5+ years in database technologies and strong SQL query writing skills, preferrable SQL Server
• Experience working in Agile development environment - Microsoft Azure Devops preferred
• Good communication skills to translate business requirements into Mapping
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other business
• organizations; successful experience in working with diverse groups of people in a problem-solving environment
• International multi-cultural environment.

Preferred qualification:

• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies

Knowledge /Technical & Functional skills

• Business Analysis, backlog management.
• Users's feedback analysis and management.
• Strong SQL query writing skills
• Understanding of basic (API) data integration and database (SQL) concepts.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (in English), French is a plus.

Other skills

• Ability to move easily across different projects and initiatives, to prioritize and manage many open cases at one time.
• Curiosity and eagerness for exploring and understanding complex business processes.
• Deep critical thinking attitude to be able to manage ambiguity and complexity comfortably.
• Quick learner on new domains, ramp up on knowledge curve easily, ability to work independently and with little prompting.
• Inclination to make improvements, find new ideas and challenge the status quo.
• Excellent in execution with natural sense of duty and urgency to drive the change.
• Excellent teamwork, communication & collaboration skills.
• Strong analysis, synthesis, and communication capacity (written and oral), ability to negotiate and influence both internally and externally.

Additional Information

Additional Information for the job

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible working
• Access to Training and Development
• Discretionary Bonus
• Profit Sharing plan
• Lunch vouchers
• Public transportation refund
• Workers council social benefits
• Legal annual paid leave + up tp 14 days RTT

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us