Principal Data Architect

at Perdue Farms Inc - Georgetown in Salisbury , Maryland, United States

Job Description

Summary

This Principal Data Architect – Data and Governance level role requires a data leader ready to shape the future of data architecture in Perdue Farms. As Principal Data Architect, you will drive enterprise-wide data governance, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and stewardship across Syniti, SAP ECC, S4/HANA, cloud platforms, and future AI-driven ecosystems. You will design and implement a scalable, governed, and secure data architecture that enable supply chain optimization, omnichannel retail, and advanced analytics. If you thrive on solving complex data challenges, influencing senior stakeholders, defining, and leading governance frameworks that enable high-quality, trusted data at scale, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce data governance policies, standards, and best practices across the organization
• Support project teams advising, coaching, and monitoring data architecture practices across the organization
• Implement data lineage, metadata management, and data stewardship programs to improve data transparency
• Collaborate with compliance teams to align data governance with data privacy, compliance, and industry standards
• Define data modeling standards and best practices to ensure consistency across key enterprise data domains
• Develop reference architectures, data frameworks, and roadmaps for enterprise data modernization
• Design and implement a scalable data architecture that integrates ERPs, MDM, CRM, supply chain, and analytics platforms
• Define data quality metrics, monitoring processes, and automated validation rules to prevent inconsistencies
• Partner with IT and business teams to implement data cleansing, deduplication, and enrichment solutions
• Ensure role-based access control and data security policies to safeguard sensitive information
• Work closely with IT, supply chain, sales, marketing, and finance to align data strategies with business objectives
• Act as a trusted advisor to executives providing insights on data-driven decision-making and governance
• Lead and mentor engineers, and governance teams to build a high-performance data culture
• Enable analytics and real-time data processing through well-governed data pipelines
• Evaluate and integrate data governance tools. Drive adoption of self-service analytics for business users

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.  May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another. May need to access files, supplies and equipment.