Principal Data Warehouse & AI Leader

Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc.; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k

Paid holidays

PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Training and development

Job summary

Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. in Cary, NC seeks an IT Data Science Principal (Data Warehouse) to lead enterprise analytics, AI capabilities, and data governance across analytics engineering, BI, data science/ML, and GenAI initiatives.

You will partner with leadership to define priorities, drive architecture, ensure governance, and deliver scalable data and AI solutions that align to business strategy and value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field.
• 8 plusyears of experience across enterprise analytics, business intelligence, and/or data science/ML delivery in a medium-to-large enterprise environment.
• Proven experience leading teams and portfolios delivering analytics products and AI solutions, including vendor management, roadmap execution, and stakeholder governance.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake as an enterprise platform, including Cortex Analyst / Snowflake Intelligence for semantic-layer-driven natural language analytics, warehouse cost/performance tuning, and role-based access governance.
• Experience delivering AI/ML or GenAI solutions in production environments, including MLOps practices and cross-functional delivery.

Responsibilities

• Partner in developing enterprise analytics and AI roadmap, aligning use cases and investments to business strategy, value, and feasibility.
• Establish outcome-based prioritization, intake, and funding recommendations for analytics, ML, and GenAI initiatives.
• Define success metrics and benefits tracking for analytics/AI products and services (adoption, quality, cycle time, and business impact).
• Lead, coach, and partner with multi-disciplinary teams (analytics engineers, BI developers/analysts, data scientists/ML engineers), including vendor/partner resources.
• Set clear expectations for delivery quality, documentation, testing, and responsible AI practices; build development plans and career pathways.
• Build a high-performing organization focused on customer value, operational excellence, and continuous learning across analytics and AI.

Skills

Leadership

Analytics

AI/GenAI

SQL

Snowflake

ETL/ELT

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Analytics

Tools

SSIS

ODI

Matillion

Snowflake

Job description

Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc. in Cary, NC seeks an IT Data Science Principal (Data Warehouse) to lead enterprise analytics, AI capabilities, and data governance across analytics engineering, BI, data science/ML, and GenAI initiatives.

You will partner with leadership to define priorities, drive architecture, ensure governance, and deliver scalable data and AI solutions that align to business strategy and value.