John Deere operates a sprawling manufacturing and equipment business across agriculture, construction, forestry, and turf care with 10,000+ employees globally. The tech stack reveals a hybrid legacy-to-cloud migration: deep SAP/ERP footprint (SAP, SAP EWM) paired with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Databricks), BI tooling (Power BI, Tableau), and development languages (Python, Java, React, Node.js). Hiring velocity is accelerating, with engineering roles dominating (142 open positions) and a heavy intern cohort (146 roles), suggesting talent pipeline buildout. Active projects center on cloud integration, process automation, and lean manufacturing support—signals of operational modernization across a traditional industrial footprint.
Tech Stack 200 technologies
What John Deere Is Building
◆Challenges
- Efficiency improvement
- Improving efficiency of quality tasks
- Reducing cost
- Compliance with anti-bribery regulations
- Maintaining production flow
- Protecting brand during union negotiations
- Warehouse logistics process optimization
- Underwriting efficiency
- Large data review projects
- Performance tuning and cost optimization
▲Active Projects
- Digital workspace experience (dwe) support
- Lean manufacturing support
- E2e integration setup between successfactors and adp payroll
- Process automation and reporting implementation
- Baseline data for wage performance pay plans
- Batch carburizing/hardening operations quality planning
- Continuous improvement of lifecycle processes
- Data science projects
- Modernization and integration initiatives with cloud platforms
- Weld ofp manufacturing engineering
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Infrastructure Lead, Delivery Lead, Growth Lead
