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Sr. Data Architect, R&D IT

US - Watsonville, California

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $170K/yr

8+ years exp

Driscoll's is on a journey to modernize the digital infrastructure supporting their global berry breeding and R&D operations. The Sr. Data Architect will own the end-to-end data architecture for the Genomic Sciences Platform, defining reference architectures and ensuring that digital investments deliver on scientific and business outcomes.

Food & Beverages

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Obtain a deep understanding of relevant business area(s) and business processes to be able to recommend solutions and build high-quality requirements

Define the target data architecture for GSP (conceptual/logical/physical), including canonical models for SNPs, samples, plates/runs, phenotypes, pedigrees, and trial metadata

Establish reference architectures for ingestion (stream/batch), curation, QC, and serving layers; select and standardize patterns (e.g., CDC, event streaming, warehouse/lakehouse)

Author and maintain data contracts and platform APIs that decouple breeders/labs from downstream analytics and apps

Drive data quality, lineage, Master Data Management, cataloging, and access governance aligned to enterprise standards

Partner with IS Data Services on platform choices (e.g., Databricks/Azure/Oracle/AWS, orchestration, catalogs) and with security controls for scientific or PPI data

Lead solution design reviews; mentor engineers on modeling, partitioning, schema evolution, performance, and cost management

Evaluate/vendor-select enabling tech (pipelines, orchestration, storage, catalog, observability)

Translate scientific workflows into resilient data products and SLAs for R&D users

Responsible for interpreting and validating horizontal business strategies and operational needs into technology solutions that drive efficiency and process improvement

Provide business and technical leadership and work with the IS Project Team to ensure that projects progress on expected timelines and alert project team to risks and issues related to IT solutions

Identify and understand up/down-stream impacts of requests and accommodate or mitigate risks accordingly

Lead the planning and support of user acceptance test cycles, including identifying and documenting all relevant business scenarios and test cases

Effectively prioritize and self-manage a multi-project workload in a fast-paced environment

Communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with business and technical teams

Domestic and international travel required up to 10%

Represents Driscoll’s in an ethical and professional manner during all interactions with growers, co-workers, suppliers, customers, and the business community at large

Ensure the security of Driscoll’s confidential and proprietary information and materials

Qualification

Data architectureAPI designData governancePythonSQLModern data stacksCloud architectureCommunication skillsLeadershipProblem-solvingTeam collaboration

Required

8+ years in data architecture/engineering; 3+ as a lead/architect designing enterprise or domain data platforms

Deep experience with modern data stacks

Strong dimensional/data-vault or domain-driven data product design; API and event-driven design

Practical experience with Python/SQL

Strong experience with Microsoft product suite, including Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and SharePoint required

Travel and after-hours support required

Preferred

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and effectively present findings and recommendations to management

Demonstrated experience leveraging AI/ML tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AutoML) to accelerate data pipeline development, system integration, and exploratory analysis in scientific or R&D environments

Experience in both in-house development solutions and implementation of vendor delivered applications preferred

Experience with custom web and mobile application development projects

Modern cloud architecture experience; governance

Familiarity with scientific/R&D datasets

Prior work defining reference architectures and evangelizing standards across business units

Background in life sciences, ag-biotech, or high-throughput lab/omics data

A valid passport and the ability to travel internationally without restrictions

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week (US)

401(k) with employer match

Profit-sharing participation

Paid sick time

Paid vacation

Paid personal and family care leave

Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Company

Driscoll's

Driscoll’s is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries.

Founded in 1944

Watsonville, CA, US

1001-5000 employees

http://www.driscolls.com

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