Job description

Are you amazing at SQL? Curious about Big Data and predictive models to deliver insights to leading institutions and students? Civitas Learning is looking for smart and dedicated data engineers to join our data engineering team. As a Data Engineer you will serve as a key, data-driven implementation engineer and interact with customers on a daily basis during their deployment.

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.

Responsibilities

Collaborate directly with external customers to understand their student success goals, specify and design data solutions, and commission products into production.
Develop ETL transformations to map customer 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.
Configure and troubleshoot API connections between our platform and customer information systems.
Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) to enable customers to access our applications.
Develop data pipelines to integrate institutions onto our data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Design, implement, and maintain database models.

Qualifications

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 including experience with ETL tools, and command line scripting.
Proficient developing code with command line build tools.
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.

Nice to haves

Some experience with the following or their equivalents:

Python/Java/Ruby or other programming language
Amazon Web Services
Github
Predictive models
Higher Education Student Information Systems or Learning Management Systems (Ellucian Banner, Peoplesoft, Blackboard LMS, etc.)
JIRA
Postman

Remote - LATAM

$35,000—$40,000 USD

WHY WE LOVE WHAT WE DO:

Civitas Learning is a student success company delivering the clearest path to improved higher education outcomes. The company’s Student Success Intelligence Platform leverages each institution’s unique data to find and distribute the strongest signals across the student lifecycle. These signals empower students to make the best possible decisions along their academic pathway. Advisors, faculty, and administrators can personalize support, scale meaningful action, and measure impact to dramatically improve student outcomes.

Today, Civitas Learning is a strategic partner to more than 325 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with our growing community of partners, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to graduate a million more students per year by 2025.

Civitas Learning is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. For roles located in the U.S., Civitas Learning uses E-Verify to verify the right of all new employees to legally work in the United States.

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