Senior Architect, Operational Intelligence & Analytics

American Sugar Refining; Florida; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

American Sugar Refining seeks a Principal Engineer, Operational Intelligence to lead analytics strategy and governance across ASR Group refinery sites. You will transform operational data into actionable insights, drive predictive capabilities, and optimize performance while ensuring secure and compliant deployment across platforms.

You will define data standards, lead cross-functional teams, and partner with IT, cybersecurity, and plant operations to realize measurable value and reliable

Qualifications

• Progressive leadership experience in industrial analytics, data science, or related field.
• Experience converting operational problems into analytic use cases with business impact.
• Experience developing, deploying, validating, and sustaining predictive analytics/AI in production.
• Experience with industrial time-series data and data infrastructure.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive adoption across sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise leadership for Operational Intelligence across refinery sites.
• Develop and maintain IA strategy, standards, technology roadmap, architecture, and governance.
• Own the asset model, measurement vocabulary, and data contracts across platforms.
• Chair the governance forum and manage intake, prioritization, and escalation routing.
• Lead, coach, and develop the central team and foster a sustainable talent pipeline.
• Translate operational needs into a portfolio of intelligence initiatives with clear ownership and value measures.
• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of analytics, predictive capabilities, and optimization opportunities.
• Define the production lifecycle for deployed solutions including monitoring and drift detection.
• Establish enterprise standards on analytics compute boundaries and data sharing with cybersecurity/IT.
• Build relationships with operations, engineering, maintenance, reliability, controls, IT, and finance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Industrial analytics

Data science

Project portfolio management

Statistics & modeling

Python

SQL & data querying

Cloud & compute governance

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Data Science/CS

Master's degree in analytics/engineering (desirable)

Tools

PI System

AVEVA

MQTT

Sparkplug

ISA-95 asset modeling

Job description

American Sugar Refining seeks a Principal Engineer, Operational Intelligence to lead analytics strategy and governance across ASR Group refinery sites. You will transform operational data into actionable insights, drive predictive capabilities, and optimize performance while ensuring secure and compliant deployment across platforms.

You will define data standards, lead cross-functional teams, and partner with IT, cybersecurity, and plant operations to realize measurable value and reliable