Senior Staff Enterprise Applications Engineer (Workday)

PowerSchool Group LLC • Dallas, TX

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.
Team Overview
Our Information Technology (IT) team leads all aspects of IT systems and processes across the enterprise, including data services, security, compliance, applications, automation, and end-user services. Through innovative and streamlined technology solutions, this dynamic team enables company growth​, protects data, and serves as a critical partner to all departments of PowerSchool.
The Enterprise Data & Integration Architect is responsible for defining and owning the enterprise architecture that governs how data moves across systems, where it is stored, how it is governed, and how it is consumed for analytics, operations, and AI. This role establishes standards and reference architectures across integration platforms, data warehousing/lakehouse, and governance tooling to ensure a scalable, secure, and well-documented data ecosystem.
This is a senior, hands-on architecture role that combines strategic design with practical technical depth.

Requirements

• 12+ years in data architecture, integration architecture, or platform architecture roles.
• Strong experience designing enterprise integrations using iPaaS or middleware (Boomi or similar).
• Strong experience with data warehousing / lakehouse architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft data platforms (Fabric, Synapse, SQL, Power BI, or similar).
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks and metadata tools (Purview or similar).
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting/programming language (Python preferred).
• Experience with APIs, REST, JSON, and data transformation pipelines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in SaaS or product-based organizations.
• Familiarity with cloud security, identity, and access patterns.
• Experience supporting analytics and AI initiatives with curated, governed datasets.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise integration architecture across ERP, CRM, HR, and SaaS systems.
• Define integration patterns using middleware (e.g., Boomi), including batch, near-real-time, and event-driven designs.
• Establish standards for error handling, logging, monitoring, retry logic, and performance.
• Provide architectural oversight for large integration initiatives (e.g., Workday implementations).
• Own the target-state data platform architecture using Microsoft Fabric and related Azure services.
• Define landing zone patterns, transformation layers, and modeling standards.
• Ensure data ingestion pipelines align with enterprise integration patterns.
• Partner with engineering teams on scalable, cost-effective designs.
• Define the enterprise data governance framework and operating model.
• Establish data domains, ownership, stewardship, and metadata standards.
• Lead implementation of governance tooling (e.g., Microsoft Purview) including lineage, catalog, and classification.
• Ensure governance is embedded into platform and integration design.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, standards, and design guidelines.
• Provide architecture reviews for new integrations and data initiatives.
• Enable engineering and analytics teams through templates, patterns, and documentation.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to align architecture with enterprise priorities.
• Influence roadmap decisions related to integrations, data platforms, analytics, and AI.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed