Senior Data Architect

Johnson Brothers Liquor Company; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 99,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Johnson Brothers Liquor Company is seeking a Senior Data Architect to shape our data and analytics strategy. You will define current-state, transition, and future-state architectures, guiding engineering teams across ingestion, storage, modeling, and governance.

You will mentor engineers, translate architectural direction into implementable designs, and help reduce complexity while ensuring security, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, lakehouses, or similar large-scale data solutions.
• Deep understanding of data architecture and modeling across multiple domains.
• Strong Microsoft/Azure data ecosystem experience and governance focus.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature EIM architecture principles, standards, and governance.
• Define current/transition/future-state architectures and reference models.
• Partner with engineers to translate architecture into implementable designs and review major solutions.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen architectural practices across the team.
• Influence decisions and drive simplification of the technology landscape.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure data ecosystem

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Architecture governance

Data governance

SQL/ETL

Cloud cost optimization

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Fabric Data Warehouse

Dataverse

Dynamics 365 F&O

Power BI

TOGAF/DAMA/DMBOK

Job description

Looking for a rewarding career? Johnson Brothers is a leading family-owned distributor of wine, spirits, and beer, delivering exceptional service since 1953. We proudly represent the world’s top beverage brands and are committed to excellence, innovation, and growth. Johnson Brothers offers exciting opportunities in a variety of areas. Join our passionate team and help shape the future of the beverage industry! Our enterprise data platform is evolving, our application landscape is changing, and our Enterprise Information Management (EIM) architecture practice is maturing along with it. We are looking for a Senior Data Architect who wants to help shape the future of data and analytics at Johnson Brothers. You will help establish the architectural principles, standards, patterns, and governance that guide how we manage and use data across the organization. You will also play a key role in defining our current, transition, and future-state architectures as we evolve from Azure Data Lake and Synapse toward Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, while integrating new enterprise platforms including Dynamics 365 F&O and Dataverse. This is not an ivory-tower architecture role. We are looking for someone who has built and implemented solutions, earned broader architecture responsibility, and can translate architectural direction into practical guidance for experienced engineering and technology teams.

Job Description:

Establish and mature EIM architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and lightweight governance. Develop and maintain meaningful current-state, transition-state, and future-state architecture. Create a practical architecture library covering key standards, patterns, decisions, and reference architectures. Provide architectural direction as our data ecosystem evolves from Azure Data Lake and Synapse toward Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and Fabric Data Warehouse. Help define how Dynamics 365 F&O, Dataverse, Fabric, enterprise applications, integrations, and analytical platforms work together. Guide architecture across data ingestion, storage, transformation, modeling, analytics, metadata, lineage, cataloging, and governance. Provide architectural guidance for our developing Master Data Management and Data Quality capabilities, including technology evaluation and implementation. Establish and promote data modeling standards and reusable patterns. Partner with Data Engineers and other technology teams to translate architecture into implementable designs, review significant solutions, and resolve difficult technical problems. Mentor experienced engineers and help strengthen architectural and engineering practices across the team. Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, encourage reuse, and reduce unnecessary complexity and technical debt.

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated progression from hands-on solution development and implementation into architecture and technical leadership.
• Strong experience designing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, lakehouses, or similar large-scale data solutions.
• Deep understanding of data architecture and modeling, including dimensional, relational, and enterprise/domain-oriented approaches.
• Strong architecture experience within the Microsoft and Azure data ecosystem.
• Experience translating business needs into information, application, and technology architectures.
• Ability to define practical current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures.
• Working knowledge of modern integration architecture, APIs, pipelines, orchestration, and system-to-system data movement.
• Understanding of enterprise data management disciplines including governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, master data, and reference data.
• Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment, including balancing scalability, security, performance, maintainability, cost, and delivery realities.
• Ability to influence technical decisions, mentor experienced engineers, and build consensus across teams.
• Ability to communicate architecture effectively with audiences ranging from engineers to Directors and VPs.
• Comfort operating in an environment where both the architecture practice and technology landscape are evolving.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Fabric Data Warehouse, or Lakehouse.
• Dynamics 365 F&O and Dataverse architecture.
• MDM or Data Quality platform implementation.
• Metadata, catalog, lineage, or data governance technologies.
• Enterprise integration or EDI/B2B architecture.
• End-to-end analytics architecture, including semantic and Power BI consumption layers.
• Architecture or data-management frameworks such as TOGAF or DAMA/DMBOK.
• Cloud cost optimization or FinOps practices.
• Technology/vendor evaluation and selection.
• Technical team or formal people leadership.

Additional Job Description

The expected pay range for this role is $99,000- $168,000. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. Actual placement within range will be contingent upon several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, education, experience, internal equity, union status (where applicable) and alignment with market data.

Johnson Brothers offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings and flexible spending accounts. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) with an employer match, short-term disability coverage, company-paid long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off (PTO) plans and paid parental leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Johnson Brothers is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and equal treatment in employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender/gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, military status or any other basis in protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Johnson Brothers makes employment decisions based solely on the basis of qualifications for the job. Johnson Brothers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fair treatment and hiring based on qualifications. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or any other protected status under applicable laws.

Worker Sub-Type: Regular Time Type: Full time

Johnson Brothers is a third-generation, family-owned wine, beer, and spirits distributor founded in 1953 by Lynn Johnson in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Guided by its founding values of work ethic, teamwork, excellence, innovation, passion, and integrity, the company partners with top-tier suppliers to deliver a world-class portfolio and exceptional service to customers across 25 states. The company was recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies for three consecutive years (2023–2025). Learn more at johnsonbrothers.com | LinkedIn | Instagram.