Description
Data Engineer III
Note: This position is fully remote and can be located anywhere in the United States. Qualified candidates from all time zones are encouraged to apply.
Position Summary
The Data Engineer III works with stakeholders to understand their work and processes, gather requirements, and translate their data needs into productive, cost-effective technology improvements for NWEA. Combines strong customer service and technical expertise in a data enablement role.
Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support solutions using Snowflake, Informatica, and SSIS products
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements
• Manage logs, domain objects, user permissions, and domain reports. Generate and upload node diagnostics. Monitor Data Integration Service jobs and applications. Domain objects include application services, nodes, grids, folders, database connections, operating system profiles, and licenses
• Identify, recommend, and implement ETL/ELT, application integrations, event pipelines and general architecture improvements

• Expert level knowledge supporting integrations against SQL2016, Postgres, Mongo, and Snowflake
• Hands on experience on Cloud Computing such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, GCP.
• Knowledge on scheduling tools like Active Batch, Autosys, etc.
• Coordinating with the Support teams, project teams, DBA, infrastructure team and application vendor to plan/implement maintenance outages and upgrades.
• Be able to proactively monitor the overall system (executing daily health check reports - job execution stats, volume processed, execution times, IO times taken etc.)
• Proficient in working with Active Directory, Azure AD, and LDAP configuration and user management
• Develop disaster recovery and failover strategies for the data integration environment
• Design and implement platform services, frameworks, and data workflows for data scientists, ML Engineers, and operational teams
• Develop and socialize technical solutions and frameworks that the broader data science and engineering teams can leverage to ship production-hardened data products at increasing scale and velocity
• Drive efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation: performance, scaling, observability, and monitoring
• Identify limitations and required features in the Data Platform with peer teams to design and implement them
• Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating, whether it be a new shiny technology or an arcane, ill-conceived legacy data structure
• Drive performance enhancements, development best practices and collaborate with other Data Engineering team members
• Cross-train and mentor teammates

Skills and Abilities

• Thorough understanding of ITIL and IT Service Management concepts
• 8+ years of experience data engineering and integration development
• 5+ years hands on experience with installation and configuration of integration platforms
• Understanding of infrastructure/server administration required to support and trouble-shoot application issues
• Experience administering Cloud-hosted Data Systems
• Troubleshooting experience in working with product vendor and customers
• Experience with integrating other systems with Informatica and Snowflake
• Research and analytical skills to translate user's stated business need into meaningful solutions
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Ability to apply problem solving and troubleshooting skills to resolve support issues
• Demonstrated experience developing ideas or identifying opportunities that result in continuous improvement
• Able to handle confidential information with a high level of discretion
• Proven experience in interacting with senior management
• Ability to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation

Competencies

• Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Business Insight - Applying knowledge of business and marketplace to advance the organization's goals.
• Action Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency and high energy.
• Optimizes Work Processes- Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

Education and Experience

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Eight or more years of experience in complex information system and data analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance across multiple hardware and software platforms
• Specific experience provisioning, supporting and administering Informatica and Snowflake products
• Preferred Certifications:

• Informatica Cloud Data and Application Integration R34
• Informatica Data Engineering - Developer / Administrator
• Snowflake SnowPro Core
• Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer

About Us
NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that precisely measure growth and proficiency-and provide timely data to help tailor instruction. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K-12 assessments, including our flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™; our progress monitoring and skills mastery tool, MAP® Skills™; and our reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. Educators trust our professional learning offerings to accelerate student learning and our research to support assessment validity and data interpretation. More than 11 million students in 146 countries use our solutions to support their learning and growth each year.
What We Can Offer You
At NWEA we not only offer a competitive base salary, we offer a 15% contribution of eligible employees' base salary to a defined contribution 403(b) retirement savings plan; career development opportunities; an awesome work culture and environment; we also offer industry leading benefits and perks that are focused on supporting our employees' holistic wellbeing. To learn more about what we can offer more, click here.
NWEA strives to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices the center of our work. Our organization's mission, Partnering to Help All Kids Learn, is the foundation for our DEIA commitment as we work to reflect, value, and support the educators, students, colleagues, and communities we serve. We seek to empower and engage all stakeholders in the research, services, solutions, and products we provide, our organizational culture, and the partnerships we establish with schools, districts, states, and countries.
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NWEA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. For our EEO Policy Statement, please visit our website. If you'd like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please visit the EEOC website