Talent Pool - Data Engineering (Engineer/Snr Engineer/Associate Technical Lead/ Technical Lead) 

About Sysco LABS: 

Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry. 

Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide, and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion. 

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations. Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of “Connecting the world to share food and care for one another”, and our work directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry. 

The Opportunity: 

We are currently building a talent pool for future Data Engineering opportunities across Engineer to Lead levels within our team. This is an opportunity to be considered for upcoming roles and contribute to shaping the future of Sysco’s customer experience from the ground up. 

Responsibilities:

• The design and development of large data processing solutions for one of the world's largest corporations involved in the marketing and distribution of food products.  

• Work collaboratively with agile cross functional development teams and provide guidance for database design, query optimizations and database optimizations while adhering to DevOps principles. 

• Design and develop capacity/scalability plans for fast growing data infrastructure. 

• Adhere to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of solutions and ensure high code quality by following software engineering best practices.  

• Be involved in projects throughout their full software lifecycle - from development, QA, and deployment to post-production support.  

Requirements: 

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, and for SE - 1-2 Years, for SSE 2-4 Years, ATL - 4-6 Years and for TL 6-8 years of experience developing production enterprise applications, data integration solutions and in managing teams. 

• Excellent communication and leadership skills. 

• Hands on experience working with large volumes of data and distributed processing frameworks (preferably Apache Spark). 

• Hands-on experience in design and development of ETLs to process large volumes of data. 

• Hands-on experience in working with large relational databases (preferably MySql). 

• In-depth understanding of the database design/optimization methodologies (OLAP/OLTP database design techniques, query plan analysis). 

• In-depth understanding of the software engineering methodologies (UML/Design patterns). 

• Experience in working with NoSql databases and bigdata (Hadoop, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, MongoDB) technologies will be an added advantage. 

• Working in a Scrum Agile delivery environment and DevOps practices, as well as prior experience working with Cloud IaaS or PaaS providers such as AWS will be an added advantage.  

Benefits: 

• US dollar-linked compensation 

• Performance-based annual bonus 

• Performance rewards and recognition 

• Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes 

• Entertainment allowance 

• Team engagement allowance 

• Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws 

• Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments 

• Hybrid work arrangement 

Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.