At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.
Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.
While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America
As a Data Engineer Lead at McCormick, you will play a pivotal role in the build and delivery of data products from simple to complex and supporting McCormick business units with their data and analytics needs.
Your responsibilities will include delivering and supporting data for existing analytics solutions, tooling, and solutions, researching new features and implementing automations. You will support business users, Data Scientists and Data Analysts to convert business expectations into data products and data models usable by business to deliver AI, analysis, reporting, and data-driven recommendations to stakeholders and executives.
This role will be accountable for building and maintaining scalable data pipelines from source systems. The Data Engineer will ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of data products by integrating raw data from various sources. Key responsibilities include data modeling, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) development, and ensuring data quality and security. This role will be accountable for data coming in from 5-10+ source systems.
Key Responsibilities
1. Plan, Design, and Execute
• Partner with data product managers to deliver annual data roadmaps.
• Accountable for ETL designs across data sources.
• Execute ETLs across data sources.
• Develop integration approach for data products to support AI and advanced analytics.
• Establish best practices for medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold layers), data lineage, and performance optimization.
2. Data Extraction, Load, and Transformation
• Design, build and oversee pipelines ingesting all internal (SAP S/4HANA, legacy ERP, CRM, manufacturing, supply chain, HR) and external data sources (market data, retail scanner data, syndicated data, partner APIs, IoT feeds).
• Oversee the design of complex pipelines, setting the direction and standards.
• Ensure all data products feed off of lakehouse data that has SAP-embedded data characteristics.
• Standardize reusable ingestion frameworks, metadata-driven pipelines, and CI/CD-enabled deployment patterns.
• Evaluate & define suitable tools (e.g., Kafka, Sqoop, Fivetran, custom Python/Scala scripts) for optimal extraction.
3. Data quality and governance
• Establish validation checks during extraction and load (schema enforcement, deduplication, anomaly detection) and ensure data classification alignment, enforcement & audit traceability.
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems to catch pipeline failures early.
• Enforce regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, PDPA).
• Manage PII across systems and workflows
4. Driving innovation and strategy
• Drive automation in pipeline deployment (CI/CD for data workflows).
• Review and recommend emerging tools (dbt, Airbyte, Delta Lake) to modernize extraction and load processes.
• Champion cloud-native solutions for scalability and cost efficiency.
5. Issue Resolution and Support
• Monitor and troubleshoot the data pipelines proactively across data sources.
• Provide expert-level support and guidance to data teams across the Enterprise.
Required Qualifications:
Level of Education and Discipline
Certifications and/or Licenses
Experience
Interpersonal Skills
Other Skills & Competencies
At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical value
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC) is a global leader in flavor and one of the most respected and familiar names in the industry. In business for over 130 years, McCormick manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry—retail outlets, food manufacturers, and foodservice businesses. McCormick creates flavors for a wide range of applications, such as beverages, snacks, dairy, bakery/confectionary, savory, performance nutrition, and health.
The McCormick name represents a trusted source of flavor in millions of kitchens around the globe—in homes and in restaurants. Partnerships with farmers and suppliers around the world allow us to provide great-tasting, quality spices with year-over-year consistency that you can trust.
Our herbs and spices come from 80 different countries, while our brands reach consumers in more than 150 countries and territories. Our passion for quality is matched only by our commitment to an innovative and energetic company culture. At McCormick, we believe in respect, recognition, inclusion, and collaboration, based on the highest ethical values for our employees.
McCormick is a team of 13,000 employees located around the world—and we’re growing. If you have a passion for flavor—and you’re ready to take a journey—come have a seat at our table.
