**About ETS:** ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide. Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide. Position Summary: The Data Architect, Senior articulates the overall architectural vision, conceptualizes, and experiments with alternative architectural approaches with respect to strategic design and development of data architecture across IT and the organization. The Data Architect is responsible for how data is collected, stored, processed, integrated, cataloged, modeled, and used to empower product, services, and functions for self-serve business intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence. This role helps data teams follow the envisioned business and technology direction by articulating the architectural vision through the scope and lifespan of data initiatives. Responsibilities: • Articulate and document a data architecture solution vision. • Oversees data architecture designs, business requirements, prototypes, testing, and training. • Develops conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and supports the development of data strategies by building roadmaps and creating processes to meet current and future needs. • Develop data frameworks and scalable approaches to support an evolving data architecture and integration needs that can be leveraged and re-used for new data-driven business products, services, and functions. • Develop and implement cloud data platforms to support product strategy and roadmap, advanced analytics, data science and SQL/NO-SQL datasets to give business, products, and operations a competitive advantage. • Provides recommendations on innovative data platforms, tools and services, and aligns decision-making with the organization’s strategic data vision and all standard policies, processes, and procedures. • Manages a repository of documentation related to data architecture standards, protocols, and frameworks, and regularly evaluates for improvement opportunities. • Maintains currency with emerging technologies, leveraging industry knowledge and expertise to drive continuous improvement and innovation efforts in data architecture and related areas (e.g., Application Programming Interfaces (API), Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI (GenAI), Microservices, Event-based architectures). • Ensure data architecture and practices comply with relevant industry standards and regulations, such as GDPR, HIPPA, and CCPA. • Establish and enforce data quality standards and practices. • Continuously improve processes, technologies, and platforms to provide best value to business. • Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to your job function. Knowledge and Skills: • Extensive knowledge of and experience in database development, developing and delivering data architecture solutions and strategies. • Firm understanding of data modeling, master data management, enterprise data warehousing, ETL, reporting, querying, requirements analysis, and data integration techniques. • Extensive knowledge and experience with network architecture, IT Architecture principles, frameworks, methodologies, standards and best practices. • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and executive audiences. • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. • Adaptable and flexible in response to changing business needs and priorities. • Technical Expertise: o Strong expertise in Azure Analysis Services (AAS), Power BI Premium Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Data/Delta Lake, Microsoft Fabric, and Data Pipelines. o Proven experience in designing and implementing data solution on the Azure Platform o Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and data warehousing solutions (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake). o Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server). o Experience with Pyspark framework building data lake (S3/Iceburg), data warehouse (on Redshift Serverless/Spectrum), EMR (serverless), pipelines & catalogs construction (Glue, Athena) o Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Cassandra) and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark). o Understanding of ETL processes and tools (e.g., Python). o Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security practices. Education and Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary • 8+ years in information technology, big data, data science, analytics platforms and/or higher education • Minimum 3 years in Data Architecture or relevant field • Or an equivalent combination of education and experience to constitute a similar level of expertise • Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience in relevant field OR Master’s degree + 4 years of experience in a relevant field \#LI-HYBRID \#LI-NA1 **ETS is mission driven and action oriented** + We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning. + We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth! + As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you! **ETS is an employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and accessibility in education. We are dedicated to building teams that capitalize on the various backgrounds and experiences of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.**