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The Smucker Information Services (IS) department enables technology solutions for capabilities that help our business perform, transform and grow. The Senior BI Developer on the IS Corporate Administration Team realizes this purpose by designing, developing, and maintaining scalable business intelligence solutions that provide enterprise-grade reporting and analytics. The Senior BI Developer will focus on building and optimizing data models and curated reporting objects within the company-standard data lakehouse architecture (Databricks), ensuring high-quality, consumable datasets that drive Tableau-based reporting and self-service analytics across the business. The Senior BI Developer partners closely with business stakeholders, peer analytics teams, and IS partners to translate requirements into robust data solutions. This role emphasizes visualization delivery, BI solution development and data platform best practices, including data governance and performance tuning.

Location: Orrville, Ohio (Close proximity to Cleveland/Akron)

Work Arrangements: Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 9 days a month primarily during core weeks as determined by the Company; maybe more as business need requires

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop and maintain curated data transformations, scalable data assets and reporting objects in the Databricks Platinum layer to support enterprise BI and analytics use cases.

• Design, develop and maintain Tableau dashboards and other visualizations by ensuring alignment to architectural standards and optimization for performance and usability.

• Translate business requirements into efficient, well-structured data transformations and semantic layers using SQL and other supported languages.

• Implement performance tuning and optimization strategies for large-scale data processing and BI workloads.

• Support the design and operation of data pipelines, partnering with Enterprise Data Platform teams on their delivery of data engineering, modeling and governance activities.

• Execute audit and compliance activities involving BI reports. Serve as an escalation point for analytics resources within business functions.

• Contribute to and advocate for data governance, naming standards and development lifecycle practices.

• Identify and implement improvements to BI architecture, tooling, and development processes that support data quality, consistency and reliability across curated datasets.

• Mentor junior team members and provide subject matter expertise on BI development and visualization best practices as well as reporting enablement.

What We Are Looking For:

Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in BI development, analytics engineering or related roles

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline (Business, Engineering, MIS, Computer Science, or related field) or specialized training in Information Technology and/or Data Analytics.

• Strong experience with Databricks or similar cloud data platforms, including data transformation development

• Experience in SQL-based languages (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle SQL, or MySQL) for data extraction, transformation, and analysis across complex datasets

• Knowledge of CI/CD practices within data and analytics development

• Strong understanding of performance optimization techniques for large datasets

• Ability to design scalable, maintainable, and well-documented data solutions

• Strong problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills

• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role (not required):

• Experience working in CPG-related analytics environments or supporting administrative functions such as Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Communications, Legal, Enterprise Risk, Ethics & Compliance.

• Experience with preparing data and developing visualizations in Tableau

• Experience integrating Databricks with enterprise BI ecosystems

• Experience with Python or other scripting languages for data processing

• Experience executing data governance and metadata management utilizing platforms such as Atlan

• Experience applying artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and technology toward solution development and analytics use cases

• Knowledge of modern IT concepts such as Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as Code

• Familiarity with modern data architecture concepts such as Lakehouse, ELT frameworks, and data orchestration tools

TheRight Placefor You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in ourBasic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.