Data Architect

Role Purpose The Business Information Architect – Customer is accountable for defining and aligning customer business meaning, data, systems, and processes across enterprise platforms and data domains. This role ensures customer data is consistently understood, structured, and applied across the company to support operational processes, data quality, governance, analytics, and business objectives.

Working as part of the Enterprise Data Management organization, this role bridges business process and technology by partnering with Data Governance, Data Stewards, Data Architects, IT Architects, and business stakeholders. The role focuses on customer definitions, critical data elements, business rules, hierarchies, and end-to-end data flows across key platforms, including SAP MDG, ERP, contract lifecycle management, and related commercial processes. This role supports all functions that use customer data, with primary emphasis on Finance, Supply Chain, and downstream processes such as credit management and order-to-cash.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information management, business, finance, supply chain, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred

• Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data architecture, information architecture, data governance, enterprise data management, master data, or a related field.

• Proven experience defining and implementing business-aligned data or information architecture solutions in complex organizations.

• Experience working with customer data, customer master data, customer hierarchies, and customer relationships.

• Experience documenting data flows across systems, integrations, and business processes.

• Experience with SAP MDG, ERP-centered processes, or comparable customer master environments.

• Strong understanding of how customer data supports Finance, Supply Chain, and commercial processes, including credit management and order-to-cash.

• Strong understanding of data governance, data management, and operational data quality principles.

• Ability to define business terms, rules, hierarchies, and information flows using structured documentation or modeling techniques.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams and influence outcomes in a matrixed environment.

• A job that shapes a life.

• Corning offers you the total package.

• Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.

• Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.

• Our health and well-being benefits include medical, company-paid life insurance, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program to support you and your family.

• Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions.

• Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges.