Data Architect - Remote

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

The focus of this role is to Architect, build, and execute a scalable data infrastructure that supports the expanding use of AI/ML technology across the organization. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable data architectures that support our AI/ML initiatives, analytics, as well as supporting existing data warehouse solutions. Your expertise in data modeling, database management, data warehousing, and cloud-based storage solutions will play a key role in optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of our data-driven processes, contributing to Eagle Family Foods continued growth and success.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient data architecture to support AI/ML initiatives, analytics, and the integration of structured and non-structured data from various sources
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and software developers, to ensure seamless data integration and optimal performance.
• Translate business requirements into databases, data warehouses, and data streams
• Establish best practices for data modeling, database design, and metadata management, ensuring consistency and standardization across all data platforms and projects
• Creating procedures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility
• Analyzing, planning, and defining data architecture framework, including security, reference data, metadata, and master data
• Migrate data from legacy systems to new solutions as needed
• Improve system performance by conducting tests, troubleshooting and integrating new elements
• Optimize new and current database systems
• Define security and backup procedures
• Collaborating with other teams within the organization to devise and implement data strategies, build models, and assess shareholder needs and goals
• Provide operational support for BI Solutions
• Power BI and SSRS report development

Qualifications

Experience

• Proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Analyst, Database Developer, or similar role
• Strong understanding of data modeling and mining techniques, as well as database management systems, including SQL server, SSMS, and SSIS (SQL 2016 and above)
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Java, and SQL
• Knowledge of various cloud-based storage solutions and technologies (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage).
• In-depth understanding of database structure principles
• Experience gathering and analyzing system requirements
• Proficiency in MS Excel
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, SSRS)
• Proven analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Project planning, risk management, time management
• Able to lead and facilitate Projects with IT Analyst and Business Partners
• Problem-solving attitude
• BS in Computer Science or relevant field

Preferred Experience

• Experience with ERP systems and applications
  • Preferred - Infor M3, Infor OS, Infor ETL tools, Infor Data lake
• Experience in business analytics in a Manufacturing or CPG company
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric a plus
• Experience with ODATA, APIs, SFTP and other connection points

Additional Information: Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds collecting samples and performing laboratory tests.  Specific vision requirements of this job include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The employee occasionally works in proximity to fumes or air-borne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and in non-weather related extreme cold. 

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Eagle Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Eagle Foods also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Eagle Foods’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.