Principal Data Engineer, Analytics Solutions

ThePrincipal Data Engineer, Analytics Solutionsis responsible fordefining, enabling, and scaling Hershey's portfolio of analytics solutions across the enterprise. Analytics solutions include Power BI dashboards, conversational analytics interfaces, AI-enabled insight applications, and custom insight applications. This role does not centralize all analytics development; itestablishesthe standards, frameworks, and reusable assets that enable business domain teams to build andmaintaintheir own solutions with confidence. This role ensures these solutions are user-centered, technically sound, adoption-ready, and continuously improving, enabling faster and more consistent decision-making across commercial, supply chain, and corporate functions. We welcome candidates from analyticsengineering, BI development, data product, or solution design backgrounds who bring a blend of technical depth and solution design experience.

This is an individual contributor role with accountability for the full analyticssolutionsportfolio, with the potential to grow into direct management of an analytics practice team as the portfolio scales. ThePrincipal Data Engineer drives the vision for how analytics works across Hershey, sitting at the intersection of analytics, product management, design thinking, and business domain expertise, and is accountable for the end-to-end lifecycle of analytics solutions, from requirements gathering and design through delivery, adoption, and iteration. The rolesets standards, builds reusable frameworks, and partners with business domain teams and analysts to co-develop and continuously improve analytics solutions.

The role also contributes tothe analytics practice function,establishingstandards, best practices, and reusable assets that raise the quality and consistency of analytics solutions across the organization. ThePrincipal Data Engineer partners closely with Data Products, Data Platform Engineering, and Data Governance to ensure analytics solutions are built on trusted, governed data. Data Products owns enterprise data assets and governance; this role owns the analytics solutions that consume those assets and put insights into the hands of decision-makers.

ThePrincipal Data Engineer works closely with key business analytics consumers across commercial, supply chain, and corporate functions,operatingas a strategic partner to domain leaders who depend on analytics to run their businesses. This ensures that analytics solutions are not only delivered but are trusted, adopted, and consistently used by the business.

What We Are Building for Hershey:

This role is foundational to how Hershey turns data into action. ThePrincipal Data Engineer, Analytics Solutions will build a unified portfolio of analytics solutions that give leaders, analysts, and frontline teams the insights they need to make better decisions. From Power BI dashboards that track retail execution and trade promotion ROI, to conversational analytics that let users ask questions in natural language, to applied AI solutions that o conversational analytics that let users ask questions in natural language, to applied AI solutions that surface recommendations and predictions (built on the enterprise AI/ML platform), this role shapes how analytics is built, consumed, and continuously improved across the enterprise. Byestablishingclear standards, enabling self-service capabilities, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, this role ensures Hershey's analytics evolve from scattered reports into a cohesive, enterprise-grade analytics portfolio that drives growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage.