Lead Data Architect - Enterprise Platforms

Cummins Inc.; Columbus (IN); On-site; USD 131,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Indiana is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead enterprise data platforms, analytics, and governance to enable scalable insights and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with business and engineering teams to design lakehouse architectures, data pipelines, and security standards while mentoring data engineers and driving continuous improvement across the data estate.

Qualifications

• College or university degree in a relevant technical discipline, or relevant equivalent experience required.
• Export controls or sanctions regulations may require licensing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of enterprise data platforms that enable scalable analytics, AI, and business intelligence solutions.
• Partner with business leaders, product teams, and technical stakeholders to translate complex requirements into high-value data solutions.
• Design and optimize data lake, lakehouse, data warehouse, and cloud-based architectures that improve data accessibility, quality, and performance.
• Deliver resilient and reusable data pipelines that accelerate decision-making and reduce time-to-insight across the organization.
• Champion data governance, security, compliance, and quality standards to ensure trusted and reliable enterprise data assets.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance scalability, operational efficiency, cost optimization, and platform performance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to data engineering teams while fostering engineering excellence.
• Enable executive and business-critical decision making through the integration and delivery of data from diverse enterprise systems.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Leadership

CI/CD

Agile

Security

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure data services

Job description

Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Indiana is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead enterprise data platforms, analytics, and governance to enable scalable insights and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with business and engineering teams to design lakehouse architectures, data pipelines, and security standards while mentoring data engineers and driving continuous improvement across the data estate.