Data Management Lead

Your Job

Guardian is seeking a Data Management Lead to join our team in Auburn Hills, MI!

In this role you will help shape the trusted data foundation for our enterprise ERP transformation. You will connect business processes and outcomes to governed data definitions, conversion requirements, quality controls, and reusable data products that support operations, reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions. 

Our Team

You will work across Guardian business and technology teams, partnering with Global Process Owners, Business Process Owners, Data Stewards, and ERP workstreams. Together, the team is building sustainable data capabilities that support business readiness at go-live and continue creating value after implementation. 

What You Will Do

• Lead business and subject-matter engagement to define and validate the master, reference, and transactional data required for ERP deployment. 
• Translate business processes and outcomes into governed data definitions, conversion rules, quality requirements, reconciliation criteria, and acceptance criteria. 
• Coordinate data readiness through profiling, cleansing, testing, refreshes, cutover, production loading, and post-load validation. 
• Lead assigned domains through the data-product lifecycle, from business definition and technical alignment through validation, publication, and ongoing ownership. 
• Partner with Data Stewards, process owners, and technology teams to clarify ownership, resolve dependencies, and make data quality and delivery risks visible. 
• Validate that data products, semantic views, reports, and related consumption methods reflect approved business meaning and logic. 
• Drive standardization, reuse, and continuous improvement across ERP conversion, data governance, and data-product delivery. 

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in data management, enterprise resource planning implementation, data conversion, data governance, master data, business analysis, or data-product delivery. 
• Experience translating business processes into data definitions, requirements, quality rules, controls, and acceptance criteria. 
• Experience supporting enterprise testing, data refreshes, cutover, go-live, or stabilization activities. 
• Working knowledge of data governance, metadata, lineage, master data management, data quality, and data stewardship practices. 
• Experience coordinating cross-functional work among business and technology stakeholders. 

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with Infor M3 or a comparable global ERP platform, particularly in warehouse, logistics, or quality processes. 
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Agile delivery methods such as Scrum or Kanban. 
• Experience with Snowflake, SQL, semantic models, business intelligence consumption patterns, or enterprise data platforms. 
• Experience applying data-product, metadata, lineage, and governed-data concepts in manufacturing, supply chain, operations, finance, commercial, or quality domains.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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