Lead Data Engineer — Snowflake-First Architecture

Cracker Barrel; Lebanon (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

Dental and Vision benefits

Paid vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development

401k match

Job summary

Cracker Barrel is seeking a Senior Data Architect at our Store Support Center to lead data engineering, shape our Snowflake-first data platform, and enable scalable analytics across the organization.

You will mentor engineers, translate business requirements into durable technical solutions, and collaborate with IT and analytics partners to drive cost-effective, high-performance data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Six+ years of experience leading data engineering teams with ownership of architecture and delivery planning.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms and scalable data architectures.
• Strong communication across technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data engineers to build robust data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Evolve data architecture for scalability, reliability, and performance with a Snowflake-first mindset.
• Stay hands-on to design solutions, review code, model data, and guide implementations.
• Promote self-service analytics through thoughtful data architecture and tool enablement.
• Improve processes toward reusable, scalable, configuration-driven patterns.
• Direct daily operations, planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and budgeting.
• Mentor team members and balance near-term needs with long-term architectural investments.
• Collaborate with Analytics and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into durable solutions.
• Work with DBAs on Snowflake environment, roles, permissions, and cost monitoring.
• Stay current with industry trends and technologies.

Skills

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Snowflake

Data warehousing

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Azure/AWS

Communication

Agile

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Data Stage

Informatica

Alteryx/Dataiku/Databricks

Job description

Cracker Barrel is seeking a Senior Data Architect at our Store Support Center to lead data engineering, shape our Snowflake-first data platform, and enable scalable analytics across the organization.

You will mentor engineers, translate business requirements into durable technical solutions, and collaborate with IT and analytics partners to drive cost-effective, high-performance data initiatives.