Overview

Johnstone Supply, North Americas leading wholesale distributor of HVACR equipment, parts, and supplies has a great opportunity for a Data Architect to join our team. Over the last seven decades Johnstone has grown into the industry leader with over 450 distributor branches and 6 distribution centers throughout North America resulting in over $4 billion in annual sales. We work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Daikin/Goodman, Honeywell, Emerson, Johnson Controls, Google and Fujitsu, to provide contractors with world class products, technical expertise, and quality service.

Now is the best time to join Johnstone Supply. Relationship-building is the key to our success, and it shows in everything we do. The Power of Johnstone is everyone who works with us. Our customers, our partners, and our people. Johnstone is growing, and so can you.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university; seven or more years of experience in data architecture or analytics platform leadership; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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

Physical Demand

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and/or feel; flex hands and fingers; reach with hands and arms; turn head and torso; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk. Specific vision requirements are close and peripheral vision.

Company Values

We’re also interested in hiring a great candidate that holds these values so we can further build a strong company culture:

Safety: Always prioritizes safety, both at work and at home, while ensuring those who work for you work safely.
Customer Focused: Take the perspective of those we serve, anticipate their needs, and responding quickly.
One Team: We win together by collaborating with each other, focusing on the common goal, and leveraging the strengths of the team.
Own It: Take the initiative, act with a sense of urgency and pride, do things right the first time, and always act with integrity.
Innovate: Embrace and create change that drives continuous improvement and customer-valued solutions.

Benefit Overview

At Johnstone Supply, we recognize that our employees’ growth, well-being, and success drives the company’s success. We offer a competitive wage, in addition to health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision coverage, and options for supplemental care. We provide the resources you need to take charge of your well-being, including:

Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO)
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
Tuition reimbursement
Employee referral bonus program
Employee service milestone recognition program

We understand that our employees are the cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to continuous improvement & investment in our people is only matched by our commitment to superior customer experience.

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