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Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.\nOur 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.\nJob Purpose and Impact\nThe Data Security Architect will drive the enterprise data protection strategy and design scalable, secure architectures that safeguard critical business, operational, and manufacturing data across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. In this role, you will apply deep expertise in data security, cloud architecture, and governance to design scalable, secure solutions that protect sensitive enterprise, operational, and manufacturing data. You will partner with cloud, data, application, and OT teams to embed security design into IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, data platforms and OT ecosystems while mentoring engineers and influencing senior stakeholders.\n\nKey Accountabilities\nDevelop and maintain enterprise data security architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps to protect sensitive enterprise, operational, and manufacturing data.\nDesign and implement data protection controls across AWS and Azure, including data classification, encryption, key management, DLP/DSPM, data activity monitoring, and structured and unstructured data access governance\nDefine secure data architecture patterns for data lakes, analytics platforms, ERP systems, SaaS applications, and AI/ML workloads\nArchitect secure data flows between enterprise IT and OT/manufacturing systems (ERP, MES, SCADA,etc.)\nPartner with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps, Application Security, Compliance, and OT Security teams to embed data security into platform architecture and lifecycle processes\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to security engineers and analysts\nEvaluate new data security tools, technologies, and controls, and contribute to vendor strategy and standards.\nQualifications\nMinimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. 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