Sr. Database Architect

At Fieldpiece Instruments , we've been designing rugged, precision tools for HVAC/R professionals since 1990, always pushing the envelope of innovation. Fieldpiece's mission is simple yet bold: make the job of every technician easier, faster, and better.  You'll join a highly collaborative, mission-driven team that values craftsmanship, shared ownership, and customer-first thinking.

We're hiring a Sr. Database Architect to build the foundation for our product and customer data – creating the vision and long-term data architecture strategy for how the data will connect, scale, and serve. Your work will power major digital and IoT initiatives that drive business transformation in a 24/7 environment.  This role uniquely combines strategic thinking, technical hands-on execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, hands-on data architect with deep experience across OLTP and OLAP systems.  You excel at designing scalable data architectures, building seamless integrations, and driving governance in complex environments. You're a strong collaborator who communicates clearly and brings a forward-looking, data-driven mindset to every decision.

Recognized as one of Southern California's Best Places to Work (2023, 2024 & 2025 ), we provide a Hire-to-Retire philosophy and a culture of curiosity – a place where you'll have the support to innovate boldly, grow continuously, and make a tangible impact on an industry that powers everyday life.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve our database architecture roadmap with an eye toward scalability, interoperability, and future growth.
• Define both logical and physical data models to support real-time ingestion, transactional workloads, analytics, and reporting.
• Create data standards, schemas, and taxonomies that align across business units.
• Serve as the go-to database expert within Engineering, partnering with Product, Finance, Commercial, and operational teams.
• Design and build data pipelines to connect digital/IoT data with ERP, CRM, and finance systems.
• Specify synchronization logic, API-based integrations, and event-driven flows to ensure data consistency.
• Ensure compatibility and seamless data flow across our cloud and on-prem systems.
• Define data governance frameworks and access control aligned to our security and privacy policies.
• Drive implementation of data lineage, retention, and auditability tools.
• Ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and internal cybersecurity and privacy standards.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce encryption, key management, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Lead performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, and caching strategies to scale efficiently and ensure 24/7 availability and 99% uptime.
• Evaluate and select database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL) to meet future needs.
• Build automated deployments (CI/CD) for schema versioning, environment provisioning, and repeatable provisioning.
• Introduce monitoring, observability, and alerting to proactively detect performance issues.
• Build strong partnerships with data owners across business units to ensure shared governance and cohesive change management.
• Communicate complex data architecture strategies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related STEM field; Master's degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, covering both OLTP and OLAP systems.
• Proven track record designing data architectures spanning multiple business domains (e.g., Digital, Finance, Commercial).
• Deep expertise in data modeling, schema design, and integrations across relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with modern data platforms (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT and orchestration tools, such as Airflow, dbt, Kafka, or MuleSoft.
• Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and governance.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

At Fieldpiece, we believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer:

• 401(k): Matching up to 4% with immediate vesting.
• Health Benefits: Excellent medical coverage — including HSA options and contributions.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Supplemental insurance programs.
• Hire-to-Retire philosophy - we support your long-term development.
• Compensation & Stability: A competitive, full-time role in a well-established industry leader.
• Unique Perks: On-site music lessons — guitar, piano, voice — because we believe in creativity, balance & community.
• Culture: A tight-knit, respectful team where curiosity, craftsmanship, and humility rule.

Our values drive everything we do and our culture.

We are a TRIBE.

Our collective growth starts with individual growth.

We are fully engaged and empowered, collaborating to achieve our common mission.

Our people are central in making Fieldpiece the best place we will work, ever.

We do the UPFRONT HOMEWORK.

We are prepared before coming together to move forward effectively.

We begin with the end in mind by understanding The Why upfront, visualizing, researching, and acting.

We address obstacles head-on with creativity, grit and tenacity, while having fun along the way.

We deliver the RIGHT STUFF.

We deliver innovative solutions by seeing the world through the eyes of our customers.

Our culture of purposeful critical thinking leads to greatness now, rather than perfection never.

We earn TRUST.

We prove our credibility, reliability, and genuine interest in others to build lasting relationships.

Our tribe, partners, end users, suppliers and channel partners can rely on us to listen, act with integrity, and deliver quality.

We are LEAN.

We never stop searching for a better way.

We get started, fail fast, and move forward.

Our actions deliver valuable results.

We leave our EGO at the door.

We are unconcerned to be judged by the questions we ask.

With humility, we value and pursue ideas and feedback from everyone.

Our personal success is derived from the tribe's success.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability