Company Overview:

Founded in 1929, Heinens is a premier grocery store chain noted for its quality products and outstanding customer service. Heinens has now welcomed the fourth generation into the company, which operates 23 stores (19 in Cleveland, Ohio and 4 in Chicago, Illinois), two distribution warehouses, one food production plant, and a corporate office (located in Warrensville Heights, Ohio). Culturally, we place an emphasis on quality of life for every associate within the organization. We offer this through a competitive compensation package, professional development and leadership opportunities, paid time off, and balanced work schedules.

Job Summary:

The Data Architect is a new role for Heinens, responsible for supporting our organization through delivery of scalable, flexible, cloud-based, and cost-effective solutions to support our enterprise data and business intelligence needs. This role will critically inform, and design change efforts related to our information solutions, beginning with a data warehouse redesign. The ideal candidate will be able to translate our organizational business needs and unique challenges to present ideal solutions for long-term success.

Responsibilities:

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  Leads solution architecture rebuild effort and ongoing optimization design for data warehouse.
• Supports organizational change management efforts related to data initiatives, including rollout of data governance program, and supporting processes.
• Provides technical project leadership from architecture to delivery of solution for data-rich implementations.
• Partners with others in evaluating new applications they may use to access data in their respective areas.
• Documents architecture solutions for multiple audiences.
• Defines and documents best practices for many data process, including ETL processes, data storage, and data cleansing, to support integration, data sharing, analysis, and business intelligence solutions.
• Partners in development of roadmap for data initiatives.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and/or optimization across greater organization to streamline workflow and create efficiencies.
• Leads requirements review process to understand business functionality impacts to methodological changes to business processes.
• Partners with development team and technical services team to support change implementation.

Core Competencies:

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  Tech Savvy Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
• Manages Complexity Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Decision Quality Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Global Perspective Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Action Oriented Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Communicates Effectively Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Collaborates Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Optimizes Work Processes Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Manages Ambiguity Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.
• Being Resilient Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.

Qualifications:

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  7 years of experience architecting enterprise data solutions, including implementation of new solutions or rebuild/overhaul of current solutions.
• Experience architecting cloud data solutions across multiple technologies, including Azure and Snowflake.
• Strong ability to work with different databases and platforms.
• Experience working with many different types of data, including Financial, Marketing, PII, PCI, and PHI.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the appropriate database structures used to support different data.
• Able to work independently, and work as part of a team to implement a goal.
• Able to succinctly communicate complex principles, ideas, analyses, and solutions to team members across all levels of the organization.
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Able to work collaboratively with various functional areas to understand their needs and assist in developing solutions for data access.
• Superior technical leadership and innovative problem-solving abilities.
• Able to handle multiple priorities and meet concurrent deadlines.
• Strong organizational leadership, with demonstrated experience as a change agent.

Heinens, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

*This role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship*