Panera Bread
Enterprise Cloud Data Architect
$189K–$227K
Saint Louis Support Center · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, MIS, or related field; Master’s preferred.
About the job
Defines and governs Panera Bread’s enterprise cloud data architecture on GCP, including data strategy, governance, and AI foundations.
What you'll do
- Set enterprise data strategy, reference architecture, reusable design patterns, and data models.
- Establish data governance, security, discovery, cataloging, and quality frameworks.
- Architect GCP-based AI foundations and support agentic AI and generative AI use cases; mentor teams and develop prototypes.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in enterprise data architecture, data modeling, and cloud strategy in large-scale data environments.
- Comprehensive understanding of GCP core services, cloud infrastructure, networking, security governance, billing, observability, and workload management.
- Experience with CI/CD, Terraform Cloud, version control, data processing programming in Python, Spark, PySpark, and Pandas.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
- Working knowledge of DataPlex (Knowledge Catalog).
Pay
$188,838 - $226,606 annually (base salary)
Tools
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, DataPlex, Terraform Cloud, GitLab/GitHub, Managed Airflow Composer, Python, Spark
AI focus
Architect AI foundations using Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and agentic AI tools; support enterprise readiness for agentic AI and generative AI, and scale machine learning, Generative AI, and Vertex AI workloads.
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