Enterprise Data Architecture Leader for AI/ML & Cloud

1720 embecta Medical II LLC; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

LTI - long-term incentive award

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Retirement savings plans

Paid time off

Job summary

embecta is a global medical device company expanding its data & analytics function to drive growth and profitability. The Senior Manager, Principal Data Architect, will define enterprise data architecture, long-term vision, standards, and a roadmap to support business growth.

This high-visibility role operates at the intersection of technology and business strategy, guiding data governance, integration, analytics, and AI/ML enablement across platforms. Hybrid work is in Parsippany, NJ.

Qualifications

• Experience setting enterprise data architecture strategies and roadmaps.
• Ability to design secure, scalable enterprise data platforms in cloud environments.
• Proven experience architecting BI/AI&ML workloads at scale and balancing platform tradeoffs.
• Strong executive-level communication and influence across IT and business leadership.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects across federated teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise data architecture vision and multi-year roadmap to enable new business capabilities and AI/ML demands.
• Translate strategy into executable architecture with engineering and business partners.
• Set governance and security standards using Unity Catalog and Purview across data platforms.
• Serve as senior technical authority for BI and AI/ML workloads and platform decisions.
• Define reference architectures and reusable data patterns for federated teams.
• Lead migration from legacy warehouses to lakehouse with risk-aware planning.
• Advise leadership on priorities and tradeoffs for data initiatives.
• Mentor data engineers and architects to raise architectural rigor.

Skills

Enterprise architecture strategy

Executive communication

Azure data services

Hub & Spoke operating model

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Azure Data Lake

Azure Databricks

Microsoft Purview

Unity Catalog

Power BI

Job description

embecta is a global medical device company expanding its data & analytics function to drive growth and profitability. The Senior Manager, Principal Data Architect, will define enterprise data architecture, long-term vision, standards, and a roadmap to support business growth.

This high-visibility role operates at the intersection of technology and business strategy, guiding data governance, integration, analytics, and AI/ML enablement across platforms. Hybrid work is in Parsippany, NJ.