diff --git a/cdap-app-templates/cdap-etl/cdap-etl-archetypes/cdap-data-pipeline-plugins-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml b/cdap-app-templates/cdap-etl/cdap-etl-archetypes/cdap-data-pipeline-plugins-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
index b0e32cf2e8a3..f72a6f6936ff 100644
--- a/cdap-app-templates/cdap-etl/cdap-etl-archetypes/cdap-data-pipeline-plugins-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
+++ b/cdap-app-templates/cdap-etl/cdap-etl-archetypes/cdap-data-pipeline-plugins-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <spark.version>3.1.1</spark.version>
+    <spark.version>3.5.7</spark.version>
     <cdap.version>6.11.0-SNAPSHOT</cdap.version>
     <hadoop.version>2.3.0</hadoop.version>
     <!-- properties for script build step that creates the config files for the artifacts -->