Distinguished Data & Integration Architect

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $163.4k - $204.2k / year

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PowerSchool

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1001 - 5000 employees

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Education • Artificial Intelligence • Software

PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based K-12 education software, offering a comprehensive range of solutions to support educators, administrators, and families in enhancing student learning. Their products include tools for student information management, personalized learning, analytics, talent recruitment, and resource planning, all aimed at fostering student success and effective school operations. Through innovative technology and a commitment to meeting the diverse needs of educational institutions, PowerSchool empowers effective communication and collaboration within the educational ecosystem.

📋 Description

• Serve as the principal technical advisor to the CTO/CIO and executive leadership team on data strategy, integration architecture, and enterprise data platforms • Define and own the enterprise-wide data and integration architecture vision aligned with business strategy, product roadmap, and growth objectives • Drive enterprise-level technology strategy decisions, including platform direction, build-vs-buy decisions, and technology investment priorities • Present architectural vision, risk assessments, and technology investment recommendations to executive leadership and, where appropriate, the board • Own and evolve enterprise integration architecture spanning ERP, CRM, HR, and SaaS systems • Establish enterprise-wide integration standards, patterns, and principles across batch, near-real-time, and event-driven architectures • Provide architectural governance and oversight for large-scale integration initiatives such as Workday implementations and M&A system integrations • Define organizational standards for error handling, logging, monitoring, retry logic, and performance • Own the target-state data platform architecture vision using Microsoft Fabric and related Azure services • Establish architectural principles for landing zones, transformation layers, and modeling standards • Ensure data platform strategy supports scalable, cost-effective analytics, AI/ML, and product innovation • Align data ingestion pipelines with enterprise integration architecture to eliminate redundancy and technical debt • Define and champion the enterprise data governance framework and operating model • Establish enterprise-level data domains, ownership, stewardship, and metadata standards • Set strategic direction for governance tooling such as Microsoft Purview, including lineage, catalog, and classification • Lead the enterprise architecture review board or equivalent • Mentor and develop senior architects and technical leads • Influence hiring standards, technical interview frameworks, and career development pathways • Create and maintain reference architectures, design guidelines, and architectural decision records • Shape engineering culture around architectural rigor, documentation standards, and design-first practices

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in data architecture, integration architecture, or platform architecture • At least 5 years operating at a principal, distinguished, or equivalent senior architecture level • Demonstrated history of setting enterprise-wide architectural vision and strategy that directly influenced business outcomes • Deep expertise designing enterprise integrations using iPaaS or middleware platforms (Boomi or similar) across batch, near-real-time, and event-driven patterns • Deep expertise with modern data warehousing/lakehouse architectures and Microsoft data platforms (Fabric, Synapse, SQL, Power BI, or similar) • Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise data governance frameworks and metadata management tooling (Purview or similar) • Advanced SQL skills • Working proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python preferred) • Experience with APIs, REST, JSON, and data transformation pipelines • Track record of influencing executive-level technology decisions and presenting to senior leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D) • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability • Comprehensive 401(k) plan • Generous Parental Leave • Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO) • Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program • Tuition Reimbursement • Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage