Solutions Principal-Solutions Delivery

We have an exciting opportunity for a Solutions Principal at our Merriam, KS office. The Solutions Principal is a very senior individual contributor who carries the full breadth of Solutions Delivery work — such as leading support and application environment operations, delivering technology solutions for the business, performing analysis and requirements gathering, running light to medium project management, and directing upgrades and enhancements to custom and purchased applications.

This role has no direct HR employee reports; it leads through the work and services rather than through an org chart.

The role is deliberately collapsed. Depending on the need, the Solutions Principal steps into project management, requirements gathering, hands‑on build, or application support — and uses AI to move faster across all of it. Roughly 80 to 90% of the time is hands‑on doer, builder, and application‑support work. The remaining 10 to 20% is orchestration: providing direction and coordinating work for less senior resources.

As a very senior role, expectations are high — the Solutions Principal owns the hardest, highest‑leverage problems and sets the standard others follow.

At Seaboard Foods, we create the most sought-after pork. As one of the nation’s leading pork producers and exporters, we are committed to producing high‑quality food responsibly while connecting every step from our farms to family tables. More than 5,400 employees across five states support our farms, feed mills, and processing operations, helping deliver Prairie Fresh® pork to customers in more than 30 countries worldwide.

At Seaboard Foods, we value teamwork, integrity, safety, and continuous improvement. As a Fortune 500 employer and recent Business Journal “Best Places to Work” nominee, we are proud to foster a culture where employees can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.

This list is not intended to be all‑inclusive, and other duties may be assigned.

The work breaks down into two buckets:

• Lead support and environment operations across a portfolio of custom‑built and purchased/packaged applications — triage, incident resolution, root‑cause analysis, and the ongoing health of production environments — keeping business‑critical systems reliable and available.
• Own the operational readiness of releases — monitoring, runbooks, deployment approach, and escalation paths — and partner with support resources so systems stay stable after go‑live.

• Lead the design, build, test, and rollout of technology solutions for our business, delivering the most complex and highest‑leverage parts of the work.
• Embed with business teams to build deep domain knowledge, iterate in tight feedback loops, and ship working solutions that drives measurable outcomes; use AI‑Assisted Development as appropriate to deliver.
• Carry hard and sometimes ambiguous work end to end (integrations, data problems, application defects, solution patterns), demonstrating that a senior generalist backed by AI can deliver at production quality.

• Perform business analysis and requirements gathering — facilitating working sessions, documenting functional and technical requirements, and translating business needs into actionable designs — using AI to accelerate elicitation, synthesis, and documentation.

• Run project management for the work you own/lead — milestones, dependencies, cutovers, status, and risk/issue tracking — using AI to draft plans, track progress, and keep…