Data Architect (Hybrid Work Schedule)

See What We’re All About

As the fastest growing distributor of foodservice equipment parts, we like to do things a little differently. We believe our team should be like family. Not like a second cousin, twice removed, but more like the family you choose to be with every day. First, you have to demonstrate our core values and keep safety as your #1 priority, that’s key. But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change…and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list.

Do you have a genius-level knowledge of foodservice equipment parts? If not, no problem! We’re more interested in passionate people with fresh ideas from different backgrounds. That’s what keeps us at the top of our game. We’re proud that our workplace has been recognized for its growth and innovation on the Inc. 5000 list, fifteen years in a row and the Crain’s Fast 50 list ten times. We are honored to be voted by our Chicagoland team as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for three consecutive years in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat – Apply Today!

Perks

• Parts Town Pride – check out our virtual tour and culture!
• Quarterly profit-sharing bonus
• Hybrid (Remote?) Work schedule
• Team member appreciation events and recognition programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Monthly IT stipend
• Casual dress code
• On-demand pay options: Access your pay as you earn it, to cover unexpected or even everyday expenses
• All the traditional benefits like health insurance, 401k/401k match, employee assistance programs and time away – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

The Job at a Glance

We are on journey to rationalize, centralize, analyze and productize the vast amount of data that we generate to serve the needs of our customers and business partners. Our Data Architect will bring our data engineering strategy and capabilities to life, along with clear standards, policies and procedures around how scalable data practices are built and maintained.

A Typical Day

• Accountable for the Data Architectural Artifacts including Data models (conceptual, logical, physical) and dictionaries, data flow diagrams, Data pipelining, transformation and automation 

• Contribute to and maintain our org wide Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Responsible for data Strategies, Policies, Procedures and Standards such as data quality, security, compliance, retention and lifecycle management, Data disaster resiliency, recovery and availability planning, and distill and drive best practices on applying cloud technologies effectively to meet our data strategy needs
• Own our Data Operational Practices including data infrastructure TCO modeling, optimization and capacity planning, govern and ensure compliance with organizational security practices and auditing
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers/vendors to ensure smooth operations and support.
• Define, monitor, and alert against SLAs, SLOs and SLIs ensuring smooth operation of all data pipelines.
• Build and execute incident management practices in support of data availability
• Drive best in class data strategies such as Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of cloud practices across the engineering org
• Work with business, product and engineering partners, along with data producers and consumers across the business to distill data needs and drive the delivery of solutions

To Land This Opportunity

• You’re an expert in understanding of core data principles around data modelling, SQL and query optimization and are Best in class, Cloud based, ETL practices, pipelining, quality testing and automation
• You have a broad understanding of the data engineering, data science and data analytical spaces including industry tooling at play in each
• You have 8+ years of experience of relevant industry experience
• You are familiar with data warehousing, data lakes and cloud platforms (e.g. Azure (preference), AWS, GCP)
• You obtain first rate communication skills and business acumen to distill business requirements, source relevant data and integrated fresh, quality-assured data into analytics and data science platforms
• You are passionate about big data technologies and data scaling strategies and have a firm grasp of data governance policies, principles and best practices including data security
• You are proficient in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others and have experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic etc
• You have knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
• Bonus points if you have a bachelor's degree level in Computer Science or equivalent

About Your Future Team

The Ecommerce team is a fast-growing group that embraces the rapid change that comes with incredible growth. We bring our whole selves to work each day - personality and all - in true Parts Town style. 

Parts Town welcomes diversity and as an equal opportunity employer all qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.