Data Platform Architect: SQL & Cloud DataOps

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Sick time plan

Vacation accrual plan

Career growth opportunities

Employee discount (15% for household)

Job summary

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation in Phoenix, AZ is looking for a Platform Architect to own the data architecture across on-prem MS SQL Server, Azure SQL, and PostgreSQL, driving DataOps and cloud-native practices.

The Platform Architect partners with engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available data systems, while mentoring engineers and leading migrations in a hybrid ITIL/Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent.
• 10+ years of MS SQL Server in enterprise environments, with architect/lead experience.
• 5+ years with large-scale databases (5TB+) in high-availability configurations.
• 3+ years cloud DB platforms (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience building and operating DataOps pipelines and IaC for database resources.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise data architecture roadmap, aligning platform strategy with business objectives and technology trends.
• Lead the design and governance of MS SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, and related relational platforms across development, staging, and production.
• Architect and implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions including AlwaysOn Availability Groups, failover clustering, and cloud-native replication.
• Drive DataOps adoption by integrating database changes into CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for data platform resources.
• Establish and enforce data platform standards, naming conventions, security controls, and governance policies.
• Lead performance engineering efforts, including proactive query tuning, index strategy, workload management, and capacity planning for multi‑TB environments.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud database services and emerging technologies, providing build‑vs‑buy analysis and proof‑of‑concept implementations.
• Mentor and guide database engineers and developers, elevating data platform knowledge across the organization.
• Partner with development teams on complex schema design, API data patterns, and data warehouse modeling.
• Oversee data migration and upgrade projects, including major version upgrades and cloud lift‑and‑shift initiatives.
• Drive automation of operational processes including monitoring, alerting, backup validation, and routine maintenance using PowerShell, Python, or similar.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud-native practices

DataOps mindset

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

10+ years MS SQL Server experience

Tools

MS SQL Server

Azure SQL

PostgreSQL

IaC (Terraform, Bicep)

CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation in Phoenix, AZ is looking for a Platform Architect to own the data architecture across on-prem MS SQL Server, Azure SQL, and PostgreSQL, driving DataOps and cloud-native practices.

The Platform Architect partners with engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available data systems, while mentoring engineers and leading migrations in a hybrid ITIL/Agile environment.