Position Title: Data Architect Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Florenceville GTC Requisition ID: 19637
Overview:
McCain is going through significant digital transformation. As part of this major strategic initiative, we are making significant investments into our data platforms, common data models, data structures and data policies to increase the quality of our data, the confidence of our business teams to use this data to make better decisions, and ultimately drive value through the use of data.
We have a new and ambitious global Digital & Data group, which serves as a resource to the business teams in our regions and global functions. We are currently recruiting an experienced Data Architect to ensure that our enterprise data model aligns and scale according with the business.
Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Global Director Data Platforms, the Enterprise 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 models that will underpin the Global Digital & Data team\xe2\x80\x99s activities. Finally, you will play a key role as the enterprise data architect for McCain\xe2\x80\x99s Digital Manufacturing.
Job Responsibilities:

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  Develop an understanding of McCain\xe2\x80\x99s 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 the 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.
• Work with Cloud Migration team to understand the data model supporting key legacy on-premise analytics products.
• With a use-case driven approach, enhance and expand enterprise data model based on legacy on-premise 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Measure of Success:

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  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\xe2\x80\x99 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 \xe2\x80\x9cget things done\xe2\x80\x9d attitude. Roll up the sleeves when necessary; work with and through others as needed.

Key Qualifications and Experiences:

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  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:

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  At least 5 years of experience designing and working in Data Warehouse solutions building data models; preference for Teradata experience
• At least 2 years of experience in visualization tools preferably Power BI or similar tools.
• At least 2 years designing and working in Cloud Data Warehouse solutions; preference for Azure Synapse or earlier Microsoft solutions
• Experience in Erwin data modeler, Visio, Power Designer, or similar data modeling tools
• 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 relationship data bases

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Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Technology
Department: Global Data Service and Platforms
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto Company: McCain Foods (Canada)