Sr Manager, Data Architecture

About The Team

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means joining one of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic companies. Stanley Black & Decker is unique in that we’ve got a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn’t stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company poised and ready for the future.

Being a part of our team means living our core values of

courage & innovationagility & performanceinclusivity & collaborationintegrity & accountability

It means thriving in an environment of constant innovation and positive change. It means delivering tools, services, and solutions that the world counts on when it really matters. It means maintaining the highest standards in everything you do, every day.

Key Responsibilities

Develops data and information management and analytics patterns and blueprints establishing principles, reference architectures, guardrails, and standards. Enables data confidentiality, integrity and availability Optimizes data architecture, data models and database including designing, developing and deploying improved conceptual, logical and physical data artifacts. Defines data standards including design patterns. Develops data and metadata policies and procedures for structural design and development to build, maintain and leverage the data model, ensuring integration with corporate data standards

Key Activities

Influences and deep focus on technical Data Architecture standards & guidelines, Data Management practices, policies and procedures Provides technical leadership for legacy platform modernizationProactively mitigates data risks with advanced security/compliance controlsEnsure adherence to the standards & practices to drive consistency, timeliness, quality, security and delivery of data in a cost-effective and timely fashion Accountable for driving data solutions (PoC to implementation) for service requirements by planning and managing multiple complex data architecture design effortsAccountable for oversight on creation and maintenance of the subject area data warehouse / record of reference Champions advanced analytics and AI/ML adoptionAccountable for review of existing data architectures to determine overall effectiveness and compliance with original objectives Deep focus & accountability on driving innovation and applying industry recognized best practices, compliance standards and techniques to prevent/minimize data redundancies across the organizationMentors Data Architecture team on complex challenges around performance, availability and scalability of the physical databaseEvangelize master data management and working with MDM and business teams who own the data Accountable to drive collaboration with the solution and domain architects to develop methods for synchronizing data entering company systems Works with outside partners to ensure SBD requirements are metEvangelize Enterprise Data Governance strategy

Functional Skills:

Ability to tie together solutions across systemsBusiness acumenBusiness process modelingFacilitationKnowledge of required technologies (incl. 3rd party solutions)Statistical modelingUnderstanding of future technologiesITFS Project Methodology knowledge

Technical Skills

Experience with Big Data Analytics & tools/frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka etcData Architecture & ModelingData warehouse technologiesExpertise in Master Data ManagementExpertise in Data Modeling ToolsExpertise in Data VisualizationExpertise in Data Governance, Metadata managementIntegration Technologies & ETL/ELT toolsService Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Behavioral Skills

Leads through influence, drives innovation in global teamsConceptual thinking Creative thinking Problem solving / analytical thinking Teamwork and collaborationInterpersonal skillsAbility to executeAbility to prioritize and make trade-off decisionsAdaptability / ability to manage changeStrong growth mindset

Education/ Experience

Undergraduate degree and 13+ years relevant experience, orGraduate degree and 10-12 years relevant experience. Additional training or certification in organization change management highly desirablePrevious experience as a successful enterprise architect highly desirable7 to 10 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as technical architecture, solution architecture, network management, application development, middleware design, information analysis, database management or operations management) in a heterogeneous environment — or five years of experience in solution architecture, business analysis or business strategic planningDemonstrated track record of leading high-performance teams toward the successful attainment of challenging goalsInternal or external management of those units.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks

You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.