
Data Architect
Johnstone Supply
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Portland • Oregon • United States
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About the role
- Responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization’s enterprise data platform built on Microsoft Fabric
- This role serves as the architectural owner of the long-term data platform vision, ensuring it scales securely, cost-effectively, and in alignment with business priorities
- Acts as a bridge between business strategy and technical execution, the role ensures that data platform capabilities are tightly aligned with organizational objectives, enabling teams to deliver insights and data products that drive measurable outcomes
- Establishes and enforces platform standards across security, governance, scalability, and cost management, balancing innovation with stability, compliance, and financial stewardship
- Design end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, modeling, and consumption layers
- Own Microsoft Fabric platform architecture, configuration, and evolution
- Establish standards for data governance, security, metadata, and lineage
- Define platform patterns for API-based integrations and event-driven data flows
- Partner with business and IT leaders to define platform roadmaps and sequencing
- Review and guide solution designs produced by engineering and delivery teams
- Ensure the platform supports enterprise analytics, self-service BI, and AI use cases
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university
- Seven or more years of experience in data architecture or analytics platform leadership
- Microsoft Cloud or Data Architecture certifications preferred, including: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)
- Enterprise architecture or data governance certifications a plus
- Enterprise data architecture and analytics platform design
- Microsoft Fabric and cloud analytics ecosystems
- Data governance, security, and compliance principles
- Cost optimization, capacity planning, and platform scaling
- Data modeling, metadata management, and lineage concepts
- Ability to lead architectural decisions under ambiguity
- Strong strategic planning and prioritization skills
- Ability to balance long-term platform vision with near-term delivery needs
- Ability to influence senior leaders and technical teams
- Ability to clearly communicate architectural direction, tradeoffs, and standards
Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO) – 3 weeks of PTO for individual contributors and 4 weeks for leaders
- Safe Harbor 401(k) – 100% employer match up to 5% of base pay and immediate vesting
- Holiday pay – we recognize and pay our employees for 7.5 holidays per year
- Paid Parental Bonding Time
- Employer subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans
- Employer paid life insurance and short-term disability
- Voluntary long-term disability, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
- 24/7 Access to virtual care/telehealth options
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution; Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Wellbeing program with opportunity to earn reduced medical costs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you, and your family
- Coverage for chiropractic, acupuncture, and massage therapy services
- Tuition reimbursement, up to $5,250 per year
- Employee referral bonus program – earn up to $4,000 per year
- Employee service milestone recognition program
- Employee discounts on products & retail discounts
- Variety of incentive plans for employees
- Bi-weekly pay days on every other Friday
- Opportunity to apply for the John M Shank Memorial Scholarship Fund, available to both Johnstone employees and children of employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturedata governancedata modelingmetadata managementAPI-based integrationsevent-driven data flowscost optimizationcapacity planningplatform scalingenterprise analytics
Soft Skills
strategic planningprioritizationinfluencecommunicationleadershipdecision makingcollaborationproblem solvingadaptabilityvision alignment
Certifications
Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)enterprise architecture certificationdata governance certification