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<div> <div> <div> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect. <br><br>Please view a short video about our company here, <a rel="noopener" href="https://vimeo.com/805242592" target="_blank" title="Advansix Video">AdvanSix Video</a>. For more information on AdvanSix, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.advansix.com/" target="_self">http://www.advansix.com</a></p> </div> </div> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br>Why work at AdvanSix?</p> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being</p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program</p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development</p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences</p> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">The <strong>Data Architect</strong> defines and governs the target-state architecture for AdvanSix’s <strong>Unified Data Layer</strong>, ensuring that data across SAP, OT, lab, logistics, HSE, finance, and commercial domains is structured, integrated, and modeled for scale, trust, and reuse. This role owns the architectural blueprints, canonical data models, semantic design standards, integration patterns, and data product design principles that guide engineering delivery across the enterprise. The Data Architect partners closely with the AI, Automation, and Data team to ensure that what gets built is coherent, secure, and business-ready.</p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Core Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Enterprise Data Architecture</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Define and maintain the target-state architecture for the <strong>Unified Data Layer</strong>, including landing, curated, and semantic layers, domain boundaries, and consumption patterns for BI, APIs, AI, and automation.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Develop architecture principles for modularity, interoperability, reusability, and governance across business and operational data domains.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Serve as the design authority for major data platform and integration decisions.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Canonical Data Modeling</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Design enterprise and domain-level canonical models for key entities such as material, product, asset, equipment, work order, batch, vendor, customer, cost center, logistics shipment, quality event, and energy usage.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Define standards for dimensional modeling, semantic modeling, event models, and reference data structures that support Power BI, AI, and operational decision-making.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ensure alignment of curated and semantic data products with master data strategy and KPI canon.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Integration and Data Product Design</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Define architectural patterns for ingesting and harmonizing data from SAP S4 HANA, SAP DataSphere, historians, LIMS, TMS, HSE systems, and other enterprise platforms into the Unified Data Layer.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Establish standards for data contracts, schema evolution, surrogate keys, versioning, partitioning, and semantic publication.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ensure that certified datasets and APIs are designed for downstream use by Reporting and BI, machine learning, Power Platform, and Copilot agents.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Architecture Governance and Design Review</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Lead design reviews for new data products, major source integrations, and semantic layer changes.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Approve architectural patterns and ensure alignment with security, lineage, quality, retention, and access standards.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Partner with Data Strategy and AI Governance to operationalize architecture guardrails into delivery standards.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Collaboration with Engineering and OT</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Work with the OT Data Integration Lead to ensure plant data models, asset hierarchies, event frames, and OT schemas fit the enterprise architecture without taking over OT connectivity operations.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Work with Big Data Engineers to translate architecture standards into implementable pipeline, storage, and semantic design patterns.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Partner with the Manager, Unified Data Platform and AI Engineering on platform roadmap, architecture decisions, and technical debt prioritization.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Documentation and Enablement</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Produce architecture diagrams, conceptual and logical data models, reference patterns, and design standards.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Create reusable templates and guidance for engineers, analysts, and vendors.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Help stakeholders understand how data should be structured and consumed across the enterprise.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Basic Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Minimum 8 years' of experience in enterprise data architecture, data modeling, and large-scale data platform design.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Proven experience designing lakehouse or enterprise data platform architectures across multiple domains.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Strong expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, dimensional modeling, semantic layer design, and canonical data structures.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of Azure-based data architectures, including Databricks or Fabric and Synapse, ADLS or OneLake, Data Factory or pipelines, and integration with Power BI.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Working knowledge of SAP S4 HANA data structures and SAP DataSphere semantic concepts.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Familiarity with OT and industrial data patterns, including historians, event frames, asset hierarchies, time-series data, and ISA-based structures.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Strong knowledge of data contracts, schema versioning, lineage, master data alignment, and architecture governance.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate architecture into clear implementation guidance.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Experience in manufacturing, chemicals, process industries, or industrial operations.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Familiarity with TMS, LIMS, HSE, maintenance, and finance data domains.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Experience with lineage and catalog tooling, master data design, and KPI canon alignment.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Exposure to API-enabled data product design for AI agents and automation.</li> <li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Lean or Six Sigma mindset and comfort working in cross-functional transformation programs.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">The base salary range for this position is $118,800 to $178,200 annually.</p><div> <div> <p><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include periodic pay rate adjustments based on market competitiveness. Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match.  Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary financial benefits such as incentive pay, equity awards, and participation in a deferred compensation plan. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages.   </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">The pay range, incentives and benefits listed above are general guidelines only and not a guarantee of total compensation or benefits. The final offer will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, the responsibilities of the job, experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as the job location, applicability of a collective bargaining agreement, length of service, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on your role, business results and individual performance.  All aspects of total rewards offered are subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> </div> </div> <div>At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.</div> <div><br>AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.</div> <div><br>To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.</div>

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