Wayne Farms, Inc.

Data & Analytics Lead - IT

Wayne Farms, Inc. • $100K — $130K *
Oakwood, GA 30566In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant work experience
  • 5+ years in analytics, BI, or analytics engineering roles
  • Strong SQL and data modeling experience
  • Experience with cloud data platforms like Snowflake or Databricks
  • Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

  • Define key metrics, KPIs, and success measures in partnership with stakeholders
  • Translate business needs into prioritized analytics initiatives
  • Own and maintain the ongoing analytics roadmap and project prioritization
  • Communicate analytical insights and metrics changes to senior leadership
  • Establish best practices for data quality and report generation

Benefits

  • Promote data literacy across the organization
  • Make self-service analytics easier for users
  • Create best practices for analytics development and deployment
  • Flexible working environment with options for reasonable accommodations
  • Opportunity to shape and drive the analytics function's strategy
Full Job Description
Job Summary: The IT Data & Analytics Lead will help build a new centralized analytics function. This role blends business ownership with technical expertise, owning analytics outcomes while designing scalable data models. You'll shape strategy, partner with stakeholders, and establish trusted data practices that drive meaningful metrics and business decisions.

Job Responsibilities:

Analytics Strategy & Business Ownership
  • Strong business acumen and ability to partner with business stakeholders and leadership to define key metrics, KPIs, and success measures
  • Translate business problems into prioritized analytics initiatives and analytics outcomes
  • Own and maintain the analytics roadmap, backlog, and prioritization of projects
  • Communicate insights, tradeoffs, and data changes to senior stakeholders
  • Establish and maintain a shared understanding of metrics, data standards, and ownership across the organization


Analytics Engineering & Technical Leadership
  • Provide guidance and leadership to consultants during the implementation of the cloud data platform and development of analytics capabilities
  • Support the design and building of analytics ready data models and datasets
  • Establish best practices for data modeling, metric definitions, and dataset design
  • Review and contribute to analytics engineering code with a focus on correctness, performance, and maintainability
  • Experience with BI and reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.)
  • Define and enforce metric definitions and analytic standards
  • Implement data quality checks, validation tests, and monitoring
  • Implement data quality checks, validation tests, and monitoring


Enablement & Scale
  • Make self service analytics easier and safer for analysts and business users
  • Promote data literacy and drive adoption of data-driven decision making across the organization
  • Define and implement the analytics intake, prioritization, and delivery process
  • Establish best practices to ensure consistency and trust in data, analytics, and reporting
  • Establish standards for analytics development, testing, deployment, and documentation
  • Create and maintain clear documentation of data sources, transformations, definitions, and logic


Experience:
  • 10+ years in relevant work experience
  • 5+ years in analytics, BI, or analytics engineering roles
  • Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric, etc.)
  • Strong SQL and data modeling experience
  • Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
  • Experience working in early-stage or building-from-scratch environments preferred
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Experience working in early-stage or building-from-scratch environments
  • Familiarity with data ingestion tools (Fivetran, Airbyte, etc.) preferred
  • Exposure to version control (Git) and CI/CD practices
  • Experience with statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and machine learning to support advanced analytics initiatives
  • Understanding of data warehousing concepts (fact/dimension models, etc.)
  • Basic Python (nice to have, not required)
  • Ability to translate ambiguous questions into structured analytics


Supervisor Responsibilities:
  • None. This is an individual contributor role


Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master's degree preferred.


Work Environment:
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to typical risks of injury in an office environment.
  • Duties include a typical office setting including extensive computer work, sitting or standing.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Must adhere to the company's Code of Conduct and all other policies.


Safety Requirements:
  • Follows all departmental and company safety policies and programs.


About Wayne Farms, Inc.

Wayne Farms LLC is one of the largest poultry producers in the United States. The company produces a wide variety of fresh and frozen chicken products for retail, foodservice, and export customers. Wayne Farms operates hatcheries, feed mills, and processing facilities throughout the southeastern United States. The company is headquartered in Oakwood, Georgia, and has additional offices in Decatur, Alabama, and Bentonville, Arkansas. Wayne Farms is a subsidiary of Continental Grain Company, a global agribusiness and investment firm. Learn more at www.waynefarms.com.
Learn more about Wayne Farms, Inc.
Size
9,000 employees
Industry
Food & Beverages
* Ladders Estimates

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