Director, Cloud Data Architecture (Mars Veterinary Health) - Banfield Pet Hospital

Summary and Qualifications:

As part of the Mars Petcare family of businesses, Mars Veterinary Health is a global network of veterinary practices made possible by 75,000 Associates who care for millions of pets across nearly 3,000 clinics in more than 20 countries each year. We are committed to leveraging our reach to make a long-term positive impact on people, pets, and the planet and know our Purpose – A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS – starts with the people who care for them. We strive to offer unparalleled veterinary care for pets by first and foremost enabling and empowering our Associates to do what they love, whether in primary, specialty, and emergency care or management and leadership.

Role Purpose

We are looking for a strong data architecture leader in the Data Platform team to drive technical strategy with inputs from business to shape and build cloud data platform in Azure. This role is responsible for working across the architecture community to align data architecture with business, solution, app, and API architecture framework.

This individual will be building a team of data architects and data engineers designing and building our modern cloud data architecture that align with the DaaS vision.

Essential Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
• Establish data architecture practices that are used by data architects, data modelers, and data engineers.
• Lead a team of functional, technical, data architects, data engineers to deliver data solutions across MVH business units to produce complete models of the data architectures.
• Engage with data platforms stakeholders/partners to understand their needs and provide guidance on what DaaS techniques are appropriate solutions.
• Evaluate cutting-edge technology for data innovation to find opportunities or solutions that help accelerate our DaaS and product roadmap.
• Provide leadership to define overall data engineering best practices, data standards, data security, and data management.
• Mentor junior team members and serve as a role model for data architects and data engineers across teams.
• Partner cross-functionally with BI, Data & Analytics, Data Science, and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure we are meeting needs for enterprise-wide data architecture practices.
• Other job duties as assigned.

Special Working Conditions:

• Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
• Project timelines and work volume/deadlines may often require more than 40 hours per week to complete essential duties of this job.
• Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics, and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.
• Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb as well as manipulate (lift, carry, move) up to 50 pounds.
• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm-hand-finger dexterity with the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard and operate necessary equipment.
• The noise level in the work environment is normally moderate.
• Environment where pets are present.

Experience, Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area (data science, mathematics, statistics, economics, etc.) is required.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science is preferred.
• 10 years of experience in cloud data architecture and data engineering is required.
• Extensive cloud data architecture and data engineering experience is required.
• Demonstrated leadership presence and ability to lead with influence is required.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, SQL, Power BI, cloud-based data architectures, and Azure is required.
• People leadership experience is required.
• Health care background (veterinary or human healthcare, pharmaceutical, etc.) is preferred.

Salary: $151,000 – $227,000

What We Offer – The Good Stuff:

• Competitive salary with paid time off & holidays so you can spend time with the people you love.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your loved ones.
• Fertility and family-building assistance.
• Paid Parental leave.
• Practice Paid Basic Life Insurance.
• Practice Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability.
• Competitive referral program – join our team, bring your friends, and get paid.
• Automatic enrollment 401(k) Savings Plan after 60 days of employment with generous company match.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Legal Plan.
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account.
• Mental health support and resources.
• Paid Volunteering.
• Optimum Wellness Plans for up to three pets.
• Continuing Education allowance & MED hours for eligible positions.
• Student Debt Relief (for full-time DVMs).
• A Variety of discounts including Mars, PetSmart, Royal Canin, fitness, cellular and so much more.

WE ARE A DRUG-FREE, SMOKE-FREE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Mars Veterinary Health (MVH) strongly supports and values the uniqueness of all individuals and promotes a work environment where diversity is embraced. MVH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. MVH complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every MVH location.