Job Summary

This role is responsible to define & deliver best in class Data Architecture solutions across all required domains pursuing enterprise relevant solutions for high-value critical Data. They will lead the data architecture efforts and the data architects in this space to deliver a highly connected, single version of truth through our Enterprise Semantic Layer. They will participate in defining their components within and adhere to overall project definition/scoping and requirements phase, budgeting estimation, budget control & management.
This role will estimate, plan and acquire internal & external resources relate to data architecture. Included in the scope of this role is the people & skills development and management, vendor management, timeline definition and management, delivery management & benefit realization for solutions involving Data Architecture.

Data Architecture needs sit across all Data areas (Master & Transactional data: including but not limited to Product/Item, Customer/Consumer, Location, Supplier/Vendor, Calendar, Price and all required Hierarchies, Reference data and Metadata, Transactional Data and the Enterprise Semantic layer and beyond). The scope includes the relevant components required to drive sound and scalable data architecture designs that are compiled through depth of Retail business experience. Enforcing data integrity & data quality maturity in support of both Operational centralization and Analytical excellence at scale

Job Description

• Bachelors degree / Master degree

• 10+ years’ experience across a variety of functional disciplines in developing Solutions that include Data Architecture, Data Quality, MDM, enabling BI Semantic layer – with awareness of impactful Data Architecture designs for propelling BI & Analytics.

• A high level of deep cross-functional business experience with Data architect solutions and delivery

• Business Process Centric Data Architecture – enabling efficiency Data processes and performant, easy to use solutions

• Data & Master Data Management depth of knowledge

• Data Quality practice that enables – Business intelligence & Design thinking

• Cross Domain of Functional & Master Data knowledge

• Data Architecture Management & Modeling: Analytical and Operational Data Architecture designs & management – including Taxonomy & Hierarchy capabilities

• Data Analysis, Querying , Information & Data Architecture and modeling

• Process & Data Governance, including workflow design

• Compliance, Privacy and regulatory data knowledge

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, Govern, Execute and Manage Giant Eagle Data architecture Review boards to ensure Enterprise standardization is adhered to across all Giant Eagle data projects. Capability areas to be designed, managed & delivered through hands-on and direction of team:

• Anticipate and identify best practice data architecture principles across all required deliverables

• Manage team of talent (internal & external) – bringing cohesive solutions to life – further strengthening a ‘build once, deploy many’ approach.

• Partner with internal delivery partners to support deliveries for Enterprise Data Management, BI & Enterprise Data Platform and Analytics and Data Science. Engaging early and often throughout lifecycle of delivery needs

• Ensure solutions meet stability concerns for ongoing performance, maintenance and support.

• Propose & Adhere to Data Architecture & work delivery standards

• Adhere to agreed Demand Management and Program/Project Management to ensure work delivery alignment to strategic imperatives. Managing, planning and preventing capacity challenges across team resources – managing to high quality deliveries on time, on budget and in full quality stance.

• Able to “hands-on” – assist team with upskilling on technology and data architecture practices

• Develop, upskill, organize and coach internal existing talent to fulfill the DnA Strategy and delivery needs while creating a highly motivating work environment

• Effective management & leadership to directly manage teammates across US & India, along with the integration of partner talent for seamless delivery of services and software to assist in success

• Acquire, develop and coach new talent to increase skillset coverage in a highly collaborative working environment in partnership with LT and with existing teammates

• Build talent pipeline for both internal and external roles to enable agility in delivery timelines and meeting demands

About the Company
Since our founding in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has evolved into one of the top 40 largest private corporations in the
U. S. and one of the country’s largest food retailers and distributors. With more than 37,000 Team Members and $9.7
billion in revenue, we are committed to investing in people, technology, and data to elevate our customer’s experience
across multiple touchpoints. It helps us follow our commitment to serving others and improving our communities.

About Giant Eagle Bangalore
The Giant Eagle GCC in Bangalore is our global capability center. Our team of more than 350 members at the GCC
enables us to expand internal capabilities in the areas such as data analytics, merchandising and eCommerce, quality
engineering, and automation to generate insights for faster decision-making and help us accelerate our business
strategy. Our team in India plays a pivotal role in helping the company transition to new ways of working by redefining
the food and grocery shopping experience for over 4.6 million customers

About Us

At Giant Eagle Inc., we’re more than just food, fuel and convenience. We’re one giant family of diverse and talented Team Members. Our people are the heart and soul of our company. It’s why we strive to create a nurturing environment that offers countless career opportunities to grow. Deep caring and solid family values are what makes us one of the top work places for jobs in the Greater Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis Areas. From our Warehouses to our GetGo’s, our grocery Stores through our Corporate home office, we are working together to put food on shoppers' tables and smiles on their faces. We’re always searching for the best Team Members to welcome to our family. We invite you to join our Giant Eagle family. Come start a lasting career with us.