Data Architect

Company Description

International Dairy Queen, Inc. (IDQ), based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the parent company of American Dairy Queen Corporation and Dairy Queen Canada, Inc. Through its subsidiaries, IDQ develops, licenses, and services a system of more than 7,800 DQ restaurants in more than 20 countries. IDQ is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. For more information, visit

Here at IDQ, we create extraordinary Fan experiences every day and we do this through our commitment to hiring and retaining only the best in class talent. We firmly believe that our employees are the catalyst to the success of the company where their initiative, strategic thinking, and entrepreneurial spirit are recognized and rewarded. We're looking for motivated, passionate and dedicated individuals with an inherent need and ambition to go after bigger challenges.

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Data Architect working out of our corporate offices in Bloomington, MN. The Data Architect focuses on the development and support of the Analytics & Reporting Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Power

BI reporting environments at Dairy Queen. This position works on projects providing assistance and expertise to the business and IT representatives on how best to organize and provide information to meet the measurement and analytics needs of the organization. The incumbent provides support in the development, analysis, design, and management of a variety of complex data sources and visualization methods to support clinical and operational process improvement.

Additionally, the data architect will guide a team of data engineers to ensure consistent, reliable, and sustainable data solutions are delivered. The data architect will work with a team to influence data management processes that result in highly accurate and trusted data assets for use across the organization.

Finally, the data architect influences stakeholders to ensure investments in data-driven solutions are centered on optimizing clearly defined and quantified business outcomes. This position plans, designs, and optimizes for data throughput and query performance issues. This requires constantly updating expertise in areas such as platform, network, and storage technologies, bandwidth management, data bus implications, and design.

• Systems Engineering & Administration
• Design, architect, and document the database schema and data pipelines
• Capable of using agile methodology and implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Perform key thought leadership in areas of data engineering: modeling, integration, big data and cloud solution design, data warehousing, and data discovery
• Designs and develops appropriate Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) applications. Deploy and maintain system and database monitoring tools
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Partner with the BI team to define and establish architectures to support centralized metadata, reference data, business rules, and data sourcing and sharing controls

• Define service commitment standards for cloud data warehousing via the publication and ownership of service-level objectives
• Maintain knowledge of emerging technology
• Define and meet SLA requirements for analytics components
• Embrace agile methodology for iterative development

• Ability to function as a technical lead, including hands‑on implementation, as well as working closely with developers and data analysts
• Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with people at all organizational levels
• Lead in a team environment, making positive contributions to the organization
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with staff members, customers, and vendors
• Other duties as assigned or required

• Contribute to the creation of processes for improving data quality across the enterprise
• Provide leadership for developing and operating a data governance framework.

The US national base salary range for this position is $128,841-$161,052. This position is also eligible for a bonus. The base salary range displayed…