Lead Data Platform Architect - Cloud & AI Enablement

COUNTRY Financial®; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 162,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

COUNTRY Financial is seeking a senior data leadership professional to drive enterprise data platforms and governance. The role focuses on cloud modernization, metadata management, data quality, and secure, scalable data pipelines to support analytics, AI enablement, and ML initiatives.

The candidate will establish standards, design database concepts, and collaborate across teams to advance research and data engineering, delivering reliable data solutions for COUNTRY and its communities.

Qualifications

• Roles focuses on directing data platforms, integration patterns, master data management, metadata management, data quality, governance, and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Develops strategies for enterprise data ecosystems, cloud platforms, analytics, AI enablement, and information management.

Responsibilities

• Develops data pipelines that are scalable, repeatable and secure and can be used for dashboard development, machine learning models and exploratory data analysis.
• Designs and builds data models in ERD (Entity Relationships Diagram).
• Prepares and manipulates data. Manages data migrations/conversions and troubleshoots data processing issues.
• Iteratively delivers functionality using DevOps tools and concepts.
• Collaborates with other areas to develop standards and best practices for research, analysis, data engineering and machine learning.

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Data governance

ERD modeling

DevOps

ML

Collaboration

Metadata management

Job description

COUNTRY Financial is seeking a senior data leadership professional to drive enterprise data platforms and governance. The role focuses on cloud modernization, metadata management, data quality, and secure, scalable data pipelines to support analytics, AI enablement, and ML initiatives.

The candidate will establish standards, design database concepts, and collaborate across teams to advance research and data engineering, delivering reliable data solutions for COUNTRY and its communities.