School Architect

At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.

Cengage's portfolio of businesses supports student choice by providing a range of pathways that help learners achieve their goals and lead a choice-filled life.

Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery

Architect and implement modern cloud-based analytics solutions to improve business outcomes.

Learn, document, support, and maintain existing enterprise data pipelines and integration frameworks built on Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) and Snowflake.

Design, build, and implement new scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, integration, and delivery of structured and unstructured data.

Analyze existing data flows, transformations, and dependencies to support future enhancements, operational improvements, and production bug fixes.

Build and maintain scalable data models supporting downstream analytics and business operations.

Ensure data quality, integrity, governance, and lineage across enterprise data platforms.

Support data governance initiatives by documenting how datasets are sourced, transformed, integrated, and consumed.

Supervise and improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and pipeline performance.

Develop reusable frameworks, standards, and guidelines for enterprise data engineering and architecture.

Collaborate with multi-functional teams to support ongoing platform modernization and operational stability.

Minimum 10 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.

Demonstrable experience working as an Analytics / Data Architect or in a similar role.

Strong hands-on expertise with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) and Snowflake.

Experience building, improving and supporting enterprise data pipelines and cloud based ETL/ELT integration frameworks.

Solid understanding of modern cloud data architecture and enterprise data warehousing concepts.

Outstanding proficiency in data modeling, SQL, and data warehousing.

Strong Python programming skills for automation, scripting, API integration, and data engineering tasks are required.

Solid grasp of analytics and data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).

A track record of delivering high-quality, data-driven solutions with minimal oversight.

Experience in integrating data from enterprise platforms like S/4HANA & Salesforce.

Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and modern data architecture principles.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.

Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.Cengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. With products serving nearly 16 million digital users across the Higher Education, School, Work and English Language Learning markets, we’ve built a learning ecosystem that connects education to employment. We combine trusted content, AI-powered insights and scalable digital platforms to power learning for every future and drive meaningful outcomes at every stage of the learning journey.

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