**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:** ETS is looking for a leader for our Enterprise Architecture team who is passionate about bridging education research, business development and technology to improve lives. As a non-profit and a major player in the global education space, advancing learning and education opportunities for all people is ETS’ shared mission and the core of all that we do. We seek to make a substantial difference in the world by driving the quality and equity of education around the world. Join us and change the world for the better! The Director of Architecture role is a major player in all technology decisions at ETS. You’ll provide strategic leadership, guidance and subject matter expertise to the Architecture team. This team sits at the intersection of our business and operational needs and the technologies available to meet them. They guide our product owners and leadership in evaluating business needs and designing technology solutions for them. **PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:** As a leader of this team, your responsibilities include: + Lead a team of high performing individuals recognized as experts across the organization. + Support and grow your team to enable them to continue to be successful. + Understand our business goals and shape technology solutions to meet them, balancing immediate needs and our strategic technology vision. + Establish and communicate technology strategy, lead Reference Architecture, and run the Architecture Review Board. + Drive technology innovation by leading an emerging technology research team to prototype technologies that could benefit or disrupt the business in the next one to three years. + Maintain and enhance ETS’ Software Development Life Cycle, defining standards and best practices across processes, roles, artifacts, and tools. + Maintain a broad business understanding including customer and market trends + As a technology expert advise and consult with application teams on our architecture strategy and software design based on deep experience (e.g. architecture patterns, AWS, Java, serverless, Lambda, containers) + Leverage a broad understanding of secure architecture, design, and development best practices to create secure architectures and guide development teams + Lead the adoption of cloud-native tools and services across our technology landscape + Be an evangelist on the use of innovative technologies to solve business problems + Represent IT, as needed, in various enterprise project activities + Perform a wide variety of actions that require independent judgment, expertise, initiative, and follow-though as related to technology research and development activities + Adhere to the ETS and IT standards applicable to your job function + Facilitate cross team and cross component collaboration + Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to your job function. \#LI-NA1 \#LI-REMOTE **KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:** + Experience with Enterprise and Solution Architecture methodologies, standards and best practices (e.g. TOGAF, DoDAF) + Experience leading and developing staff and managing financial resources + Deep hands-on experience across the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC), with 5+ years of experience in agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) + Cloud computing design and development, AWS preferred (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, RDS) + Rich and varied solution architecture and design experience balancing multiple priorities and stakeholder interests to drive business goals + Expertise in Architecture principles and frameworks + Experience using threat modeling to analyze and improve architectures + Strong analysis, problem solving and troubleshooting skills + Strong verbal and written communication skills **EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:** **Required** : + Experience working closely with business domains, understanding customer needs, and market trends + 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in IT management in a midsize to large scale organization + 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in IT trends, analysis and development + Diagnostic and strategic planning + Demonstrated experience in IT planning and development, project management and policy development + Demonstrated understanding of financial and cost analysis + Strong technical problem-solving and troubleshooting ability + Familiarity with performance management processes + Proven leadership skills and ability to build and maintain a high performing team **Preferred** : + Relevant certifications: AWS (e.g. AWS Solution Architect Associate), TOGAF **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.**