McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We’ve been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.

Drive the discovery, design, and execution of a wide variety of data, analytical, and technology solutions.

This is a hybrid position which will require the candidate to report and work from the office three days a week. Therefore, interested candidates should be within a 50-minute radius from Temple, TX.

BENEFITS:

Day 1 Benefits available: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA and company-paid life insurance. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days.Paid holidays, Responsible Off (RTO), college tuition reimbursement, and more

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS / PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Create and evolve data technology roadmap to align with continuously evolving business needs and enterprise data strategy.Design end-to-end data and analytical workflows, including overall architecture, capabilities, platforms, tools, and governing processes.Create, maintain, and communicate strategies for data capabilities/tools.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide governance and ensure alignment to enterprise guidelines for security, auditability, data governance, metadata management, etc.Help define and improve best practices, guidelines, and integration with other enterprise solutions.Review analytic solutions for re-usability, scalability, synergy opportunities, and alignment to defined best practices and guidelines.Monitor technology trends and perform discovery of any new tools/capabilities of interest.Benchmark data and technology capabilities with industry analysts and other companies.Maintain strategic relationships with technology vendors and external communities/partners.Lead education and training for data and analytics community.Provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive data technologies and solving unique and complex problems.Research and define Advanced Data, Analytics, and Business Intelligence capabilities and strategies for information delivery and data exploration to support business function needs and goals.Other duties may be assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. Five or more years of experience in designing and implementing data architectures and complex, high-quality data and analytical solutions.Two or more years in designing data and analytics solution architectures, detailed workflows, best practices, and governance guidelines and advising on necessary technologies.Experience in design and development of Enterprise data and analytical solutions including Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) (e.g., Talend, DataStage Informatica), Data Warehousing (DWH) (e.g., Exadata, Teradata), Hadoop (e.g., Hive, Impala, Presto) and cloud data services (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift).Knowledge of data modeling a plus (e.g., Dimensional, Snowflake, Data Vault).Knowledge of cloud-first architecture. Ability to phase the delivery of data and analytical solutions such that it can meet immediate needs, while building towards the long-term strategic solution (e.g., data mesh, data fabric, data products/domains, artificial intelligence/machine learning, etc.).Understanding of holistic enterprise architecture and interplay of analytical components with enterprise foundational components (data architecture/governance, security, etc.).Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.Skill in developing and exercising cross-functional influence, aligning business and technical teams around a common architecture vision.Ability to effortlessly switch gears from summary view for leadership to hands-on discussion with practitioners.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Office environment.The job will be considered as a hybrid position.

Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.