Associate Data Engineer Jobs in Portland, OR (NOW HIRING)

Johnstone Supply, North America's leading wholesale distributor of HVACR equipment, parts, and supplies, has a great opportunity to join our team. Over the last seven decades, Johnstone has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry leader with over 470 distributor branches and 6 distribution centers throughout North America. We work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Daikin/Goodman, Bosch, Copeland, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, 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.

• 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

• 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

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.

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.

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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