Data Architect

Overview

About Phibro Animal Health Corporation. Phibro is a publicly traded, global organization with a history in animal health and nutrition as a manufacturer and marketer of medicated feed additives, vaccines, nutritional specialty products, and mineral nutrition. We strive to be a trusted partner with livestock producers, farmers, veterinarians, and consumers who raise or care for farm and companion animals by providing solutions to help them maintain and enhance the health of their animals.

Phibro is a diversified company in manufacturing and marketing products for ethanol performance, microbes for plants, home and industrial applications, and specialty chemicals for various industrial markets. Revenues exceed $1 billion supported by over 2,400 employees worldwide. At Phibro, people are our greatest asset, and we aim to foster a diverse workforce where people feel supported in openly sharing their creativity and skills to be as successful as they can be.

If you are interested in working for Phibro and feel that you do not meet all qualifications, we encourage you to apply as you might be the right candidate for this role or other positions.

The Data Architect is an integral part of our Digital Information Delivery team based out of US - Teaneck, NJ - Remote site.

This role will play a key role in the architecture, delivery and governance of reporting and data delivery s hands-on technical role requires proven experience and knowledge of data warehousing and IBM Cognos business intelligence, with emphasis on data architecture, sourcing, reporting and analytics through project life cycles. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Modern Data Architecture Leadership
• Own and enhance Phibro’s modernized data architecture built on Microsoft Fabric.
• Define technical standards for medallion architecture, CDC strategy, Fabric pipelines, optimization techniques, and Lakehouse/Warehouse usage.
• Evaluate and guide decisions on Spark vs. T-SQL warehouse design patterns.
• Oversee performance tuning to reduce compute consumption (CUs) across lakehouse notebooks, pipelines, and warehouse SQL objects.
• Fabric Migration & Platform Modernization
• Lead the migration of legacy SQL Server/SSIS processes to Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Data Factory.
• Re-engineer existing pipelines, stored procedures, and ETL frameworks into scalable Fabric-native solutions.
• Manage mirroring, CDC enablement, and ingestion performance for JDE and other enterprise systems.
• Validate and refine Silver and Gold layer ingestion, including schema evolution, SCD Type 2, and materialized view refresh logic.
• Data Engineering & Integration
• Design and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines for financials, sales, inventory, and master data domains.
• Partner with engineering teams to optimize Spark notebooks, Fabric pipelines, and delta lake tables.
• Ensure efficient CDC handling, bronze-to-gold transformations, and dependency orchestration.
• Establish operational runbooks and streamline orchestration sequencing.
• Data Warehouse, MDM, & Governance
• Architect scalable enterprise data models for Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Animal Health operations, and Planning.
• Support MDM modernization initiatives such as Customer Master redesign and Business Unit Master optimization.
• Promote data quality, auditability, lineage, and governance using Purview.
• Establish standards for schema design, keys, constraints, and gold-layer performance.
• Business Partnership & Delivery
• Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Production teams to understand reporting and analytics needs.
• Support month-end close processes through reliable data pipelines and validated warehouse layers.
• Provide guidance to leadership on capacity planning, cost optimization, and architecture selection.
• Collaborate with vendors (Microsoft, Virtusa, Qlik, etc.) on engineering, troubleshooting, and roadmap planning.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, including extensive SQL Server and ETL/SSIS experience.
• Hands-…