Sr. Salesforce Architect

Job Description

About ETS:

For more than 75 years, we have amplified products and services based rigorous research and our belief in the power of learning. Driven by our mission to advance quality and equity in education, ETS provides learning solutions, pioneering research and trusted assessments that help guide learners around the world on their path to new possibilities.

Our portfolio of trusted measures include TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis®. Along with research, development and innovation that explores new frontiers in learning and measurement our educational measurement solutions and research contribute to the development of new methods and tools, inform important dialogue with education policymakers, and shed light on critical issues and potential solutions - all with the aim of creating a world where all learners can improve their lives through education.

With new senior leadership at the helm, ETS aims to continue changing the lives of all learners as we expand our organization's global footprint. Our goal is to remain at the forefront of assessment and measurement efficacy within the education and ed tech space as it continues to grow and evolve.

Position Summary:

The IT Architect, Senior articulates the architectural vision, conceptualizes and experiments with alternative architectural approaches. This role is responsible for developing and validating the architecture and high level solution design against business requirements. The IT Architect, Senior works with the Solution Architecture team, development teams, and vendors to design and implement solutions. This role helps teams follow the envisioned business and technology direction by articulating the architectural vision through the scope and lifespan of individual projects.

The focus for this position is experience with architecture, configuration, design and implementation of a major digital commerce B2C/B2B SaaS offering. Specific experience with Sales Force Demandware is preferred, but not required. The ideal candidate has gone through several end-to-end implementations of a commerce SaaS offering. They should have a thorough understanding of the product catalogs, vouchers, payments, order management and the division of responsibilities between ERP and commerce.

Experience integrating digital commerce tools with backend software and content management systems is a plus. Experience with commerce tools supporting both B2B and B2C business models is a plus.

Assertiveness and creativity are key in this role to drive solutions to the right level of simplicity and abstraction. The candidate should be able to maintain a constant dialog with product owner and stakeholders to help them simplify and accelerate by influencing scope.

• Articulate and document a solution architecture vision
• Design for business impact following rules of simplicity, consistency, and uniformity in the ecosystem
• Create solution architectures that are leverage-able for future re-use
• Actively seek opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new business offerings and services
• Align IT solutions with business functions to improve flexibility, facilitate large scale reuse, and improve comprehensibility and visibility of IT's value to the business
• Partner with business, Research and other FCE and IT teams in designing IT solutions that match the needs of the business
• Assess and formulate future architecture and technology direction for IT solutions
• Aggressively identify enterprise IT application solution/technology initiatives that are of value
• Collaborate with other architects and teams in execution of the initiatives
• Review and approve project deliverables to ensure that they are architecturally sound and meet business needs
• Influence business strategy by explaining the capabilities of the architecture to management and the SBUs (Strategic Business Units)
• Maintain a broad business understanding including customer and market trends
• Contribute to future vision and strategy by conducting research and proof of concepts
• Maintain a broad knowledge of new technical tools and trends, and apply those tools to improving business processes.
• Map business…