Senior Data Platform Lead

Troyohiochamber; New Bremen (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

401K plan

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Crown Equipment Corporation seeks a senior leader to own the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap. You will guide a team of data engineers and platform specialists, partnering with IT, BI, and ERP teams to deliver scalable, secure data capabilities across the organization.

The role requires deep experience with cloud platforms, data governance, and end-to-end data integrations from SAP/ERP systems, enabling self-service analytics for business users while controlling cost and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field with 8+ years of related experience
• Non-degree candidate considered with 16+ years of related experience and high school diploma or GED
• Occasional travel (0–5%)

Responsibilities

• Own vision, strategy, and roadmap for the enterprise data platform
• Lead and develop a team of data engineers and platform specialists
• Define platform architecture standards, governance, and best practices for data management
• Understand requirements across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and IT
• Establish platform KPIs and metrics to measure performance and cost-efficiency
• Drive evolution to a modern, cloud-native data platform
• Architect and oversee scalable, secure cloud-based data platform
• Design data integration frameworks to extract, transform, and load from SAP, IFS, Quipware, BAAN, and others
• Build robust data pipelines using PySpark and SQL
• Establish self-service analytics for business users
• Implement data quality, lineage, and observability solutions
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and governance
• Own end-to-end data platform infrastructure
• Evaluate and integrate technologies for data warehousing, lakes, orchestration, cataloging
• Manage cloud infrastructure, performance, scalability, and cost
• Establish DevOps/DataOps including CI/CD
• Manage vendor relationships with cloud providers and partners
• Collaborate with IT to integrate with enterprise systems
• Partner with Analytics/BI/Data Science teams to enable use cases
• Work with ERP owners to design data extraction/integration patterns

Skills

Leadership

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Data governance

SQL

PySpark

Data integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Science/Engineering/Math

High school diploma/GED with 16+ years experience

Tools

Azure

Fabric

SAP

IFS

Quipware

BAAN

Job description

Crown Equipment Corporation seeks a senior leader to own the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap. You will guide a team of data engineers and platform specialists, partnering with IT, BI, and ERP teams to deliver scalable, secure data capabilities across the organization.

The role requires deep experience with cloud platforms, data governance, and end-to-end data integrations from SAP/ERP systems, enabling self-service analytics for business users while controlling cost and compliance.