Enterprise Data Architect

Beam Suntory is Crafting the Spirits that Stir the World. Rooted in two centuries of family heritage, Beam Suntory has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Beam Suntory is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

Enterprise Data Architect  

What makes this a great opportunity?

The Enterprise Data Architect (EDA) is responsible for the overall definition and implementation of enterprise data architecture and for delivering high quality modern data solutions.  The EDA will design enterprise data models, enterprise data catalog, and facilitate the adoption of enterprise data architecture, governance policies and procedures across the organization.

This is a critical architecture role to help drive global data management while refining the data architecture landscape for the company. The EDA will solve challenges in Data Management (ETL, ELT, Data Intelligence, Data Modeling) and Data Governance (creation, collection, retaining and using of data). The EDA will be responsible for evaluating new technologies and enabling Beam Suntory to make high impact, long-term decisions around design, procurement, and deployment of modern data architecture solutions such as data lake, data warehouse, data governance, data as a service and data virtualization technologies. The data architect will also be responsible for drafting technical standards, creating data reference architectures, patterns and publishing architectural artifacts.

The position reports into the Director of Enterprise Architecture. 

• Beam Suntory is a leader in the spirits industry with a track record of profitability and growth
• A great opportunity to help shape the global data architecture ecosystem
• Key contributor on the Enterprise Architecture team that defines and influences the strategy, architecture and design of the future-state Beam Suntory ecosystem.

Role Responsibilities

• Capture current and define future state enterprise information architecture and information value chains in collaboration with business and IT teams
• Define strategies and approaches to advance enterprise data platforms in support of the information value streams. Develop the architecture roadmap and plan.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Information Management and Information Security to scope and classified data assets that are deemed enterprise-significant determined by business impact, decision impact, risk mitigation impact or organizational impact.
• Define and establish data and tech standards for enterprise data acquisition, cleansing, harmonization, storage, aggregation, transformation and consumption.
• Facilitate and collaborate with Enterprise Information Management to deploy standard solutions for data governance.
• Work with cross functional architects to define reference architectures for data placement, usage, integration and storage.
• Establish uniform and consistent identifiers, formats and protocols necessary for sharing and exchanging data (including structured and unstructured).
• Define specifications and publish standards around data transport and data APIs
• Lead and deliver on technical evaluations of core data technologies and frameworks.
• Work with data engineers, product managers, and enterprise stakeholders to help deliver innovative, data-driven systems.
• Monitor regulatory guidelines (such as privacy requirements), compliance-related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) and emerging industry standards to determine their impact on the enterprise data architecture.
• Collaborate with extended teams to communicate data architecture strategies, standards, and direction.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills and verbal/written communication, including communicating updates, risks, etc.
• Develop business proposal presentations that speaks to both IT and business value.
• Work in a fast-paced, dynamic global team environment.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or related discipline or equivalent.
• Multiple experiences as data architect with working knowledge of data management, data lake, data warehouse, data governance, BI & analytics.
• Experience in establishing standard data processes to acquire, analyze, store, cleanse, and transform large datasets.
• Understanding of metamodels, taxonomies and ontologies, as well as the challenges of applying structured techniques (data modeling) to less-structured sources.
• A minimum of 12 years of architecture experience and background in information systems and information technology, with at least 7+ years in data architecture with increasing responsibilities in modern data architecture practices, leveraging -
  • Cloud platforms - Azure, GCP and AWS
  • API & Web services (REST & SOAP)
  • AI/ML technologies in Azure, AWS and GCP
  • Big Data – BigQuery, Hadoop, Hive
  • Data Warehouse – SAP BW/HANA, BigQuery, Redshift, Vertica, Snowflake etc.
  • Data Virtualization and DaaS technology
  • SQL, NoSQL and Graph databases
  • Data Analytics – Tableau, ThoughtSpot, SAP Analytics Cloud, Salesforce Einstein
  • Data Engineering – Relational, Dimensional, Columnar, Graph DB design

At Beam Suntory, people are our number one priority!  We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment.  All recruitment and hiring decisions are based on an applicant’s skills and experience.