Lead BI Data Architect

McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We've been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.

Drives the discovery, design, and execution of a wide variety of analytical technology solutions.

This is a hybrid position which will require the candidate to report and work from the office three days a week. Therefore, interested candidates should be within a 50-minute radius from Temple, TX.

BENEFITS:

• Day 1 Benefits available: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA and company-paid life insurance.
• 401(k) with annual company match.
• Paid holidays, vacation time, college tuition reimbursement, and more!

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS / PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Designs end to end analytical workflows, including overall architecture, capabilities, platforms, tools and governing processes.
• Create, maintain, and communicate positioning/go-forward strategies for analytical capabilities/tools.
• Share governance responsibility to ensure alignment to enterprise guidelines for security, auditability, data governance, metadata management, etc.
• Help define/improve best practices, guidelines, and integration with other enterprise solutions.
• Review analytic solutions for re-usability, scalability, synergy opportunities and alignment to defined best practices and guidelines.
• Create and evolve analytic technology roadmap, to align with continuously evolving business needs.
• Monitor technology trends and perform discovery of any new tools/capabilities of interest.
• Benchmark analytic capabilities with industry analysts and other companies
• Maintains strategic technology relationships with technology vendors and external communities/partners.
• Leads education and training for analytics community.
• Provides leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive analytical technologies and solving unique and complex problems.
• Researches and defines Advanced Analytics & Business Intelligence capabilities and strategies for information delivery and data exploration to support business function needs and goals.

MINIMUM SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5-10 years' experience in designing and developing complex, high-quality analytical solutions.
• 5+ years in a Data Architecture role designing data and analytics solution architectures, detailed workflows, best practices, and governance guidelines and advising on necessary technologies.
• Experience designing and developing Enterprise data and analytical solutions including ETL (e.g., Talend, Datastage Informatica), DWH (Exadata, Teradata), Hadoop (Hive, Impala, Presto) and cloud data services. (e.g., Snowflake, Azure, Synapse)
• Knowledge of data modeling a plus (dimensional, snowflake, Data Vault)
• Ability to phase the delivery of analytical solutions such that it can meet immediate needs, while building towards the long-term strategic solution
• Understanding of holistic enterprise architecture and interplay of analytical components with enterprise foundational components (data architecture/governance, security, etc.)
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts.
• Skill in developing and exercising cross-functional influence, aligning business and technical teams around a common architecture vision.
• Ability to effortlessly switch gears from summary view for leadership to hands-on discussion with practitioners.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Office Environment

Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.