Data Architect (38058) at McCain Foods

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

Reporting to the Data Architect Lead, Global Data Architect will take a lead role in creating the enterprise data model for McCain Foods, bringing together data assets across agriculture, manufacturing, supply chain and commercial.  This data model will be the foundation for our analytics program that seeks to bring together McCain’s industry-leading operational data sets, with 3rd party data sets, to drive world-class analytics.  Working with a diverse team of data governance experts, data integration architects, data engineers and our analytics team including data scientist, you will play a key role in creating a conceptual, logical and physical data model that underpins the Global Digital & Data team’s activities.

What you’ll be doing.

• Develop an understanding of McCain’s key data assets and work with data governance team to document key data sets in our enterprise data catalog

• Work with business stakeholders to build a conceptual business model by understanding the business end to end process, challenges, and future business plans.

• Collaborate with application architects to bring in the analytics point of view when designing end user applications.

• Develop Logical data model based on business model and align with business teams

• Work with technical teams to build physical data model, data lineage and keep all relevant documentations

• Develop a process to manage to all models and appropriate controls

• With a use-case driven approach, enhance and expand enterprise data model based on legacy on-premises analytics products, and new cloud data products including advanced analytics models

• Design key enterprise conformed dimensions and ensure understanding across data engineering teams (including third parties); keep data catalog and wiki tools current

• Primary point of contact for new Digital and IT programs, to ensure alignment to enterprise data model

• Be a clear player in shaping McCain’s cloud migration strategy, enabling advanced analytics and world-leading Business Intelligence analytics

• Work in close collaboration with data engineers ensuring data modeling best practices are followed

What you’ll need to be successful.

• Demonstrated history of driving change in a large, global organization

• A true passion for well-structured and well-governed data; you know and can explain to others the real business risk of too many mapping tables

• You live for a well-designed and well-structured conformed dimension table

• Focus on use-case driven prioritization; you are comfortable pushing business teams for requirements that connect to business value and also able to challenge requirements that will not achieve the business’ goals

• Developing data models that are not just elegant, but truly optimized for analytics, both advanced analytics use cases and dashboarding / BI tools

• A coaching mindset wherever you go, including with the business, data engineers and other architects

• A infectious enthusiasm for learning: about our business, deepening your technical knowledge and meeting our teams

• Have a “get things done” attitude.  Roll up the sleeves when necessary; work with and through others as needed

Key Qualifications and experience

• Data Design and Governance

  • At least 5 years of experience with data modeling to support business process

  • Ability to design complex data models to connect and internal and external data

  • Nice to have: Ability profile the data for data quality requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience with requirement analysis; experience working with business stakeholders on data design

  • Experience on working with real-time data.

  • Nice to have: experience with Data Catalog tools

  • Ability to draft accurate documentation that supports the project management effort and coding

• Technical skills

  • At least 5 years of experience designing and working in Data Warehouse solutions building data models; preference for having S4 Hana knowledge.

  • At least 2 years of experience in visualization tools preferably Power BI or similar tools.e

  • At least 2 years designing and working in Cloud Data Warehouse solutions; preference for Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse or earlier Microsoft solutions

  • Experience Visio, Power Designer, or similar data modeling tools

  • Nice to have: Experience in data profiling tools informatica, Collibra or similar data quality tools

  • Nice to have: Working experience on MDx

  • Experience in working in Azure cloud environment or similar cloud environment

  • Must have : Ability to develop queries in SQL for assessing , manipulating, and accessing data stored in relational databases , hands on experience in PySpark, Python

  • Nice to have: Ability to understand and work with unstructured data

  • Nice to have at least 1 successful enterprise-wide cloud migration being the data architect or data modeler. - mainly focused on building data models.  

  • Nice to have: Experience on working with Manufacturing /Digital Manufacturing.

  • Nice to have: experience designing enterprise data models for analytics, specifically in a PowerBI environment

  • Nice to have: experience with machine learning model design (Python preferred)

• Behaviors and Attitudes

  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and defining a way forward.

  • Experience challenging current ways of working 

  • A documented history of successfully driving projects to completion

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Attention to the details.

  • Good interpersonal and communication skills

  • Comfortable leading others through change

Key Competencies:

• Drives Results, Collaboration, Customer focus

About McCain. 

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Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details. 

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