Senior Data & Analytics Solution Architect

Modine Manufacturing - Racine, WI

Full-time - Senior

Racine, WI

10,001+ employees

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

At Modine, we are engineering a cleaner, healthier world. Building on more than 100 years of excellence in thermal management, we provide trusted systems and solutions that improve air quality and conserve natural resources. More than 13,000 employees are at work in every corner of the globe, delivering the solutions our customers need, where they need them. Our Climate Solutions and Performance Technologies segments support our purpose by improving air quality, reducing energy and water consumption, lowering harmful emissions and enabling cleaner running vehicles and environmentally-friendly refrigerants. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. The Senior Data & Analytics Solution Architect will work with the Enterprise Architecture, will be part of new development projects as part of the delivery team to ensure that new technology solutions, as the highest-level technology domain expert, are designed for optimal access and usefulness, and leverage existing technologies for their specific technical domains and understand system-wide impacts. They will assist in near/mid-term roadmap creation, to address gaps and move the company towards the future state architecture to support future business growth and innovation driving business value. A successful BI and Analytics Solution Architect not only understands technology but also appreciates the business context and user needs. They bridge the gap between data and actionable insights, driving organizational success.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business needs and identify suitable technology solutions.
• Design comprehensive plans for implementing BI and analytics solutions, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and long-term goals.
• Develop data models, data warehouses, and data lakes; define data structures, hierarchies, and relationships; optimize data storage, retrieval, processing and management.
• Evaluate and select appropriate BI tools, platforms, and technologies; implement data visualization tools, reporting frameworks, and analytics platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Work closely with stakeholders, including business users, data engineers, BI developers and IT teams; translate business requirements into technical specifications; facilitate communication between technical and non-technical teams.
• Establish data governance policies, standards, and best practices; ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability; implement data quality checks and validation processes.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize queries; fine-tune ETL processes, database indexing, and caching mechanisms; address performance-related issues promptly.
• Implement data security measures, access controls, and encryption; comply with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR) and internal IT controls and audit requirements; safeguard sensitive information.
• Train end-users on BI tools and self-service analytics; create documentation for data models, ETL processes, and reporting; foster a data-driven culture within the organization; mentor and guide business users and junior developers in various aspects of data, business intelligence and analytics.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices; explore and implement AI, IoT, machine learning, and predictive analytics for enhancing BI solutions; assist in implementing Manufacturing digital standards for data, analytics and AI.
• Establish domain specific standards, near/mid-term strategy, and roadmaps (0-18 months), in adherence to, and in support of Enterprise standards, strategy and roadmaps; assist in creating the vision for future state technologies and architecture and participate in setting Enterprise standards and mid/long-term strategy/roadmaps (18-60 months).
• Create EA standards, methodologies and technology specifications, architecture patterns and define operational processes to deliver operational excellence and optimal solution designs; assist MSPs in developing KPIs and service level agreements and Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Knowledge Management and Performance Management processes.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related major or equivalent IS/business experience.
• 10+ years' experience of IS/business experience, including architecture, design, programming, and/or systems analysis.
• 3-5 years of experience with deployment and administration of Microsoft SQL and BI tool stack/technologies and MDM tools like Profisee.
• Proven experience as a BI solution architect or similar role.
• Proficiency in data modeling, ETL processes, and database design and UI design.
• Strong knowledge of BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, QlikView), SQL, and data visualization.
• Strong experience in analytical modeling tools, ML tools, NLP/LLP tools.
• Knowledge and skills in data warehousing methodologies and tools.
• Demonstrated thorough understanding of modern enterprise architecture, hands-on experience with enterprise business intelligence platforms.
• Experience in implementing modern lake house and data lake architectures and technologies.
• Hands on experience with designing and delivering various analytical solutions driving business growth.
• Hands on experience with identifying problems, doing proof of concepts and pilots, conceptualizing solutions using sensor data, IoT, ML, LLP/NLP.
• Experience working with structured and various unstructured data, vector datasets.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Preferred experience closely working with the Manufacturing industry.

Benefits

• Paid vacation
• Short term disability
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Flex spending benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health Savings Account
• And much more as detailed by Human Resources upon hiring.