Business Data Architect

Core Responsibilities:

Enterprise Data Architecture Leadership

• Develop and own the enterprise data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with manufacturing business goals and IT roadmap.
• Define architecture standards, patterns, and best practices for data ingestion, integration, storage, and analytics.
• Lead the design of high-performance data environments that integrate ERP, MES, PLM, supply chain, and quality management systems.

Technical Solution Delivery

• Oversee the design and implementation of enterprise data platforms, including data lakes, warehouses, and real-time streaming solutions.
• Ensure architectural consistency across data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML initiatives.
• Lead data platform selection and optimization (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, AWS/Azure/GCP-based solutions).
• Partner with data engineering teams to build robust ETL/ELT pipelines supporting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

Data Governance & Compliance

• Collaborate with the Data Governance team to ensure metadata management, lineage tracking, and data quality frameworks are integrated into the architecture.
• Ensure compliance with manufacturing industry regulations (ITAR, AS9100, ISO 9001, GDPR, CCPA) and corporate security standards.

Stakeholder & Business Engagement

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business language for executives and functional leaders.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, supply chain, finance, and commercial teams to define data requirements that drive process optimization and decision-making.

Innovation & Emerging Technologies

• Stay ahead of trends in data architecture, cloud-native manufacturing solutions, IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), and AI/ML.
• Recommend adoption of new tools and technologies that enhance manufacturing analytics and predictive capabilities.

Mentorship & Technical Leadership

• Provide guidance to data architects, engineers, and analysts on best practices in modern data architecture.
• Conduct architecture reviews and ensure solutions meet both business and technical objectives.

Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to influence at all organizational levels.
• Strong project leadership and organizational skills, managing multiple high-impact initiatives simultaneously.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with tactical execution.
• Deep expertise in data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) and database technologies (SQL, NoSQL).
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery).
• Data platform engineering, Terraform, CI/CD.
• Familiarity with ERP (SAP, Oracle), MES, PLM, and quality systems data integration.
• Experience with streaming data architectures (Kafka, Spark Streaming) and IIoT platforms.
• Proficiency in data transformation languages and frameworks (SQL, Python, Spark, dbt).

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; Master's preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in data architecture and engineering, with at least 3 years in manufacturing or related industrial environments.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions, integrating operational technology (OT) with information technology (IT).

This job position may include access to controlled information or technology subject to U.S. export control laws. If an applicant does not meet the definition of a "U.S. Person" (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, and those granted U.S. asylum or refugee status), the Company may be required to obtain an export control license. If the position for which you applied involves access to controlled information or technology subject to U.S. export control laws, then any offer is also contingent on verification of appropriate documentation for the Company to assess whether an export license will be required to employ you in that role, and if it is determined that an export license is required, the offer is also contingent on the Company's determination, in its sole discretion, whether a license application and ongoing administration is prudent under the project's contract parameters and whether an export license can be successfully obtained before you can start in that role. Export license applications may take several weeks to be processed.