Enterprise Data Architect – Discrete Mfg

Enterprise Data Architect – Discrete Mfg

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect – Discrete Mfg to join our client's team. This Enterprise Data Architect will be a forward-thinker interested in building enterprise data strategy, strengthening data governance, and creating scalable data architecture across a growing organization.

The Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for designing and evolving Vantage Elevation's enterprise data landscape across master data governance (MDG), master data management (MDM), and data warehousing and analytics.

This role will translate business requirements from Finance, Sales, Operations, and Engineering into scalable, well-governed data architecture spanning our ERP (Infor Visual), CPQ (Tacton), CRM (Salesforce), and analytics platforms (Microsoft Fabric / SQL Server).

The Enterprise Data Architect will partner closely with the Master Data Governance Council, domain application managers, and business stakeholders to ensure data is accurate, consistent, well-modeled, and readily available for reporting and decision-making across Vantage's multi-site, engineer-to-order and configure-to-order manufacturing environment.

• Serve as the architectural lead supporting the Master Data Governance Council and help define and maintain data governance policies, standards, and stewardship models across customer, item, supplier, and site master domains
• Design and maintain data quality rules, ownership matrices, and approval workflows for the creation, modification, and retirement of master data records
• Define and track data quality KPIs, including completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and duplication rates, and lead root-cause analysis and remediation of recurring data quality issues
• Document and maintain data lineage, business glossaries, and data dictionaries for critical master and reference data entities
• Facilitate cross-functional governance forums and drive alignment between IT and business data owners on policy exceptions and process changes

• Architect and support the selection and implementation of MDM tooling and integration patterns to synchronize master data across Infor Visual ERP, Tacton CPQ, and Salesforce
• Design golden-record strategies, matching and merge rules, and survivorship logic for key domains, including customer, item, vendor, and site data
• Define integration and data synchronization patterns in partnership with the Integrations domain manager, leveraging Mule Soft for real-time and batch master data flows
• Establish data stewardship workflows and exception-handling processes for conflicting or duplicate records across source systems
• Support M&A and site-expansion data onboarding, ensuring new business units are incorporated into the enterprise master data model with minimal disruption

• Own the logical and physical data architecture for the enterprise data warehouse (SQL Server) and broader analytics platform (Microsoft Fabric), including dimensional models, semantic layers, and data marts
• Design ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration flows from transactional systems, including Visual, Tacton, Salesforce, One Stream, Esker, and Docu Ware, into the warehouse and Fabric lakehouse
• Partner with FP&A, Operations, and Sales leadership to translate reporting and analytics requirements into scalable data models and self-service semantic models
• Define standards for data modeling, naming conventions, version control, and documentation across the analytics environment
• Monitor and optimize data pipeline performance, storage costs, and platform reliability
• Establish monitoring and alerting for data pipeline failures and SLA breaches

• Maintain and evolve Vantage's enterprise data architecture reference model in alignment with the broader application and integration architecture
• Evaluate emerging tools and platforms, including MDM suites, data catalogs, and PDM/MDM dependencies, and provide build-versus-buy recommendations to IT leadership
• Produce architecture documentation, data flow…