diff --git a/src/run_file_ingest.py b/src/run_file_ingest.py
index b67d2e6879410885469f544c8356c613be44838d..732b9e241e9cc20345763bd15e9e943fdac92cc2 100755
--- a/src/run_file_ingest.py
+++ b/src/run_file_ingest.py
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ import warnings
 from minio import Minio
 from minio.commonconfig import Tags
 
-from timeio.mqtt import AbstractHandler, MQTTMessage
 from timeio.common import get_envvar, setup_logging
+from timeio.databases import DBapi
 from timeio.errors import UserInputError, ParsingError
+from timeio.feta import Thing
 from timeio.journaling import Journal
-from timeio.databases import DBapi, ConfigDB
+from timeio.mqtt import AbstractHandler, MQTTMessage
+from timeio.parser import get_parser
 
 _FILE_MAX_SIZE = 256 * 1024 * 1024
 
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ class ParserJobHandler(AbstractHandler):
         )
         self.pub_topic = get_envvar("TOPIC_DATA_PARSED")
         self.dbapi = DBapi(get_envvar("DB_API_BASE_URL"))
-        self.confdb = ConfigDB(get_envvar("CONFIGDB_DSN"))
+        self.configdb_dsn = get_envvar("CONFIGDB_DSN")
 
     def act(self, content: dict, message: MQTTMessage):
 
@@ -52,8 +54,10 @@ class ParserJobHandler(AbstractHandler):
         # Directories are part of the filename
         # eg: foo/bar/file.ext -> bucket: foo, file: bar/file.ext
         bucket_name, filename = content["Key"].split("/", maxsplit=1)
-        thing_uuid = self.confdb.get_thing_uuid("bucket", bucket_name)
-        pattern = self.confdb.get_s3_store(thing_uuid)["filename_pattern"]
+
+        thing = Thing.from_s3_bucket_name(bucket_name, dsn=self.configdb_dsn)
+        thing_uuid = thing.uuid
+        pattern = thing.s3_store.filename_pattern
 
         if not fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, pattern):
             logger.debug(f"{filename} is excluded by filename_pattern {pattern!r}")
@@ -62,12 +66,14 @@ class ParserJobHandler(AbstractHandler):
         source_uri = f"{bucket_name}/{filename}"
 
         logger.debug(f"loading parser for {thing_uuid}")
-        parser = self.confdb.get_parser(thing_uuid)
+
+        pobj = thing.s3_store.file_parser
+        parser = get_parser(pobj.file_parser_type.name, pobj.params)
 
         logger.debug(f"reading raw data file {source_uri}")
         rawdata = self.read_file(bucket_name, filename)
 
-        logger.info(f"parsing rawdata ... ")
+        logger.info("parsing rawdata ... ")
         file = source_uri
         with warnings.catch_warnings() as w:
             try:
@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ class ParserJobHandler(AbstractHandler):
             if w:
                 journal.warning(w[0].message, thing_uuid)
 
-        logger.debug(f"storing observations to database ...")
+        logger.debug("storing observations to database ...")
         try:
             self.dbapi.upsert_observations(thing_uuid, obs)
         except Exception as e: