Enterprise Information Architect

Your Story.
The Enterprise Information Architect (EIA) plays a critical role in shaping how information flows, connects, and adds value across the enterprise. The EIA will serve as the principal architect of enterprise-wide data availability, ensuring that information is not only technically integrated but also contextually aligned with business decision-making needs across domains. Operating within a food manufacturing environment, the EIA must account for traceability, lot tracking, shelf-life data, nutritional details, and a three-tier supply chain. This individual contributor partners closely with data and analytics, finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to ensure that information architecture bridges strategic goals with execution.

Your Passion. Our Culture.
At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you're ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here.

Benefits that set us apart.

• Comprehensive medical including Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Work Week
  
  
  
  • Hybrid work schedule - Onsite Tuesday - Thursday with the option to work remotely Monday and Friday
  • Compressed work week - Option of day Friday
  
  
  
  
• Onsite Health & Wellness Center
• Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation
• Relocation Assistance
• Tuition Assistance
• Access to Employee Store

What You Do.

• Develop and maintain enterprise reference models, taxonomies, and data designs that accommodate food-specific requirements.
• Define metadata, semantic layers, and information flow standards that enhance data quality, regulatory compliance, and business usability across systems.
• Architect scalable integration patterns for transactional systems and analytics environments.
• Embed architectural guardrails and reusable patterns into agile delivery teams to accelerate time-to-value while maintaining data integrity and compliance.
• Collaborate with supply-chain stakeholders to model supplier data, commodity pricing, and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and finance teams to define data structures that support forecasting, financial planning, and revenue growth management.
• Architect information flows across internal systems and external data sources (e.g., IRI, POS/e-commerce data from customers, supplier feeds) to enable consistent analytics and informed decision-making.
• Serve as a technical thought partner to the Data Governance team-contributing to lineage, classification, and policy alignment without owning governance directly.
• Actively participate in SAFe ceremonies (PI planning, demos, retrospectives) as part of the ESA enabling team, shaping enabler epics and architectural runway.
• Translate strategic information needs into actionable design artifacts; create and maintain high-quality documentation and diagrams.
• Mentor solution architects, analysts, and data stewards in information architecture principles, tooling, and best practices-building a culture of data fluency and architectural thinking.

Your Education and Experience.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field required.
• Preferred certifications: TOGAF, Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), DAMA, or related credentials.
• 5+ years of information or data architecture experience.
• Strong foundation in data and analytics architecture, with demonstrated ability to create and deliver IA reference models and design artifacts.
• Experience working cross-functionally with business and technology teams.
• Familiarity with core enterprise systems and cloud platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms).
• Experience supporting data integration, governance alignment, and metadata-driven design in complex environments.
• Hands-on experience with EA/modeling tools (LeanIX, Lucid Chart, Visio).

Preferred Skills & Experience
Candidates with any of the following will be prioritized:

• Experience in a regulated food & beverage or related CPG manufacturing environment, including knowledge of FDA data requirements (e.g., FSMA, nutritional labeling).
• Exposure to manufacturing systems integration, such as MES, WMS, or LIMS platforms.
• Background with sales and marketing data, including third-party sources (e.g., IRI, Nielsen), POS/e-commerce data, or supplier data pipelines.
• Familiarity with forecasting, financial planning, or trade promotion/RGM systems (e.g., Anaplan, SAP TPM, OneStream).
• Understanding of commodity pricing models or supplier data management in supply-chain contexts.
• Hands-on experience with metadata/cataloging tools (Collibra, Alation, Purview).

Soft Skills & Attributes

• Influential and persuasive communicator across business, manufacturing, and technical audiences.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity while able to bring structure to loosely defined problems.
• Strategic thinker who connects vision to execution and dives into technical details when needed.
• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills, including architectural storytelling.
• Organized and proactive with the ability to break down large efforts into accountable, prioritized work.

Our Story.
With over 2,400+ employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world's first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry.

To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website at https://careers.sargento.com/us/en.

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