Enterprise Data Architect: Governance & AI Foundations

ABC Supply Co. Inc.; Beloit (WI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Employee assistance program

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Flexible spending

Paid vacation

Paid sick days

Job summary

ABC Supply Co. Inc. in Beloit, Wisconsin, is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to design, govern, and deliver trusted data assets across the organization.

You will help mature data governance, architecture, and product practices that enable reliable analytics, AI readiness, and strategic decision-making. The role leads data modeling, metadata management, lineage, and catalog initiatives, partnering with value streams to ensure data is

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture or related field.
• 3+ years leading enterprise data strategy, governance, and architecture initiatives.
• Experience defining enterprise data domains, master data management, data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and stewardship capabilities.
• Experience supporting enterprise platforms and business capabilities, including ERP, CRM, analytics, and AI initiatives.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms, modern data architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of business processes, financial systems, and operational data domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise data strategy, architecture roadmaps, governance frameworks, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and implementation guardrails that support business objectives, scalability, security, compliance, and long-term sustainability.
• Provide enterprise data architecture leadership across strategic initiatives, programs, and projects, ensuring alignment between business priorities, technology investments, and information outcomes.
• Establish and promote data product, ownership, stewardship, and data contract practices that make enterprise data assets documented, discoverable, reusable, governed, and consumable across value streams.
• Lead enterprise information architecture, including data modeling, data mapping, master data, metadata management, semantic modeling, business glossary, data lineage, and catalog capabilities to improve consistency, interoperability, quality, and discoverability.
• Enable secure self-service access to trusted enterprise data through governance, metadata, semantic models, reusable data products, and data quality practices that support analytics, reporting, machine learning, Copilot, and AI-driven business capabilities.
• Partner with executive leadership, governance councils, data owners, stewards, and architecture review boards to establish accountability, align information priorities, and drive business outcomes through effective data management.
• Evaluate emerging data, analytics, governance, and AI technologies while driving continuous improvement through automation, observability, policy-driven governance, and modern architecture practices that improve reliability, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Exceptional communicator

Business acumen

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Tools

ERP

CRM

Analytics

Job description

ABC Supply Co. Inc. in Beloit, Wisconsin, is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to design, govern, and deliver trusted data assets across the organization.

You will help mature data governance, architecture, and product practices that enable reliable analytics, AI readiness, and strategic decision-making. The role leads data modeling, metadata management, lineage, and catalog initiatives, partnering with value streams to ensure data is