Enterprise Data Architect: Scale Analytics & Governance

The J.M. Smucker Company; Akron (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The J.M. Smucker Company is seeking a Data Architect for our Enterprise Data Platform. You will design, optimize, and govern enterprise data models to enable analytics and reporting across the organization, ensuring alignment between source data, engineered layers, and published assets.

Responsibilities include dimensional modeling, semantic alignment, and collaboration with data engineers and analytics teams to deliver scalable data solutions that support AI and advanced analytics initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT or related field.
• 8+ years in data modeling, architecture, analytics, or senior data engineering.
• Strong collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with large datasets.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms and data modeling standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain dimensional data models using star schema.
• Ensure models are optimized for performance and scalability.
• Create and maintain data models and semantic definitions across domains.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to align pipelines with model intent.
• Governance tasks including metadata, lineage, and documentation.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Databricks

Lakehouse architectures

Data modeling

Analytics collaboration

Semantic layer

Large datasets

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

ER/Studio

Erwin

Atlan

Job description

The J.M. Smucker Company is seeking a Data Architect for our Enterprise Data Platform. You will design, optimize, and govern enterprise data models to enable analytics and reporting across the organization, ensuring alignment between source data, engineered layers, and published assets.

Responsibilities include dimensional modeling, semantic alignment, and collaboration with data engineers and analytics teams to deliver scalable data solutions that support AI and advanced analytics initiatives.