Data Engineer
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Our mission at Civitas Learning is to partner with forward-thinking colleges and universities, harnessing the power of insight and action analytics to help a million more students learn well and finish strong. Data and predictive models are at our core to achieve this mission. Are you amazing at SQL and Python? Curious about Big Data and predictive models to deliver insights to leading institutions and students? We are looking for smart and dedicated data engineers to join our data engineering team.
*We do not offer sponsorship for this role.
Civitas Learning offers medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401k plan. We also have a generous flexible, paid time off policy.
About Civitas Learning:
Civitas Learning brings together the best of leading-edge technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help a million more students a year learn well and finish strong. We are a mission-driven company dedicated to forever changing higher education for the better.
Using a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform and engaging applications, Civitas Learning helps partner institutions bring deep insights to decision makers, and personalized, real-time recommendations directly to the front lines for students, faculty, and advisors to measurably improve student learning, persistence, and graduation.
The Data Engineer role at Civitas Learning is critical to onboarding colleges and universities onto our cloud platform and making the process smoother, more flexible and faster. We want to work with people who are passionate about our mission and have a desire to be part of a rapidly expanding high performance team. We work hard, but also like to have fun! If this sounds like you, keep reading.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate directly with external clients to understand their student success goals, specify and design data solutions and commission products into production.
- Develop data pipelines to integrate institutions onto our data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Develop ETL transformations to map client data systems into our canonical data model.
- Build and operationalize data science models on AWS.
- Collaborate with teams across Civitas to drive innovation and best practices into our data and data science platform.
- Design, Implement and Maintain Database Models
- Bachelor's degree plus 3 years experience designing, developing, testing, and implementing complex ETL solutions using enterprise ETL tools
- Expertise in writing complex database SQL queries with a focus on Postgres and Redshift.
- Strong understanding of ETL best practices.
- Proficient developing code with command line build tools
- Experience with Database Design
- Expertise in working with technical and business teams to extract and document data integration/exchange requirements.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a cross-functional team environment, collaborating with others and sharing tools, skills, and knowledge.
- Solid problem-solving and analysis skills that demonstrate resourcefulness and attention to detail.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines, prioritize workload, and manage time effectively.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines with minimal supervision.
- ETL Tools (command line scripting, SQL)
- Experience with at least one major RDBMS
- Python/Java/Ruby or other programming languages
- Amazon Web Services
- Github
- Predictive models
- Higher Education Student Information Systems or Learning Management Systems (Ellucian Banner, Peoplesoft, Blackboard LMS, etc.)
- JIRA
*We do not offer sponsorship for this role.
Civitas Learning offers medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401k plan. We also have a generous flexible, paid time off policy.
About Civitas Learning:
Civitas Learning brings together the best of leading-edge technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help a million more students a year learn well and finish strong. We are a mission-driven company dedicated to forever changing higher education for the better.
Using a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform and engaging applications, Civitas Learning helps partner institutions bring deep insights to decision makers, and personalized, real-time recommendations directly to the front lines for students, faculty, and advisors to measurably improve student learning, persistence, and graduation.
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