Lead Data & Analytics Architect

Ethos Pet Brands

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Brownwood, TX - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 2 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Lead Data & Analytics Architect

(Exempt)

Company Overview: Ethos Pet Brands is the parent company of Natural Balance and Canidae pet brands. By joining forces under Ethos Pet Brands these premium Pet Food brands strengthen their commitment to delivering the highest quality nutrition. We believe in the power of strong brands to connect with pet parents and create meaningful experiences.

The Lead Data & Analytics Architect will work remotely and report to the VP ERP Integration & IT. This role plays a critical role in ensuring the accuracy reliability and usability of the enterprise data platform that powers reporting analytics and decisionmaking across the company.

While our thirdparty partner (Accordion) manages data ingestion modeling and dashboard development this role focuses on governing and validating the work strengthening data trust and enabling business stakeholders through highquality data documentation analysis and training.

This person sits within the Data Architecture & Engineering Team and partners closely with Marketing Sales Operations Finance IT and our consulting partners.

The key responsibilities and duties of this position include but are not limited to:

Data Quality & Governance:

  • Own data quality validation across certified datasets KPIs and semantic layers.

  • Design maintain and monitor Data quality rules alerts and issue resolution workflows.

  • Perform rootcause analysis and partner with Accordion or sourcesystem owners to resolve defects.

  • Ensure correctness consistency and alignment of KPI definitions across the organization.

Testing and Release Management:

  • Develop and execute test plans for new datasets transformations and reporting assets.

  • Validate Snowflake models (built by Accordion) before promotion to staging/production.

  • Conduct regression testing automated quality checks and data reconciliation processes.

  • Manage release documentation and contribute to a clean governed SDLC.

Documentation & Technical Standards:

  • Maintain clear comprehensive documentation for datasets metrics lineage and data contracts.

  • Establish and enforce technical standards for naming conventions transformations and certification.

  • Build and maintain the enterprise KPI catalog and data dictionary.

Change Management & Business Enablement:

  • Support data governance committees and steward groups.

  • Translate business needs into structured data requirements and acceptance criteria.

  • Lead training sessions and user enablement for Snowflake Sigma KPIs and certified datasets.

  • Serve as a subjectmatter expert representing DIG across crossfunctional initiatives.

Ad-Hoc Data Analysis & Insights:

  • Deliver highquality analysis using Snowflake Sigma and SQL for fastturn business questions.

  • Partner with Finance Commercial and Supply Chain to provide insights using certified data.

  • Support root-cause analytics variance explanations operational KPIs and special projects.

Cross-Functional Partnership:

  • Operate as the primary liaison between DIG Accordion and business users for data quality and certification.

  • Ensure transformation logic and data models meet business requirements and follow governance standards.

  • Collaborate with business teams to improve data literacy and promote selfservice analytics.

What Success Looks Like:

  • High trust in DIGs certified datasets and KPIs.

  • Influence and/or design data architecture foundations that analysts help shape and leverage to accelerate time to insight.

  • Improved data literacy and adoption of governed selfservice analytics.

  • Clean consistent documentation accessible to all analysts.

  • Strong partnership with Accordion and internal functions to deliver reliable accurate and timely insights.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5 years in data analytics data quality data engineering support or BI-focused roles

  • Advanced SQL proficiency (Snowflake preferred).

  • Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into meaningful business insights.

  • Experience working in CPG retail or manufacturing with deep business acumen in areas such as marketing planning sales manufacturing or financial analysis.

  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake dbt (reading/understanding models) Sigma or similar BI tools.

  • Strong documentation testing and data governance capabilities.

  • Excellent communication skills; able to partner across technical and non-technical teams.

  • Understanding of data lineage semantic modeling and KPI frameworks.

  • Must be willing to submit a background check and pre-employment drug screening

  • Must be eligible to work in the US

Nice to have:

  • Experience collaborating with thirdparty analytics partners or offshore teams.

  • Familiarity with ELT/ETL concepts even if not hands-on (Fivetran dbt).

  • Knowledge of change management frameworks (Prosci ADKAR or similar).

  • Exposure to AI/MLready data architectures.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Must be able to relay accurate information via multiple communication channels including verbal and written mechanisms

  • Ability to remain in a stationary position for up to 8 hours

  • Ability to operate a computer and other office technology

  • Ability to observe details at close range

  • Occasionally travel for work up to 10%

BENEFITS

  • 401K matching

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Short Term Disability

  • Long Term Disability

  • HSA & FSA

  • Pet Insurance

  • Life Insurance

  • Employee Assistant Program

  • Referral Program

  • And more!

Ethos is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications merit and business need.

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