Data Integration Specialist – Contract-to-Hire

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $67 / hour

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DataKind

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $2M Venture Round on 2016-10

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

DataKind is an organization that tackles some of the world's toughest challenges using data science and artificial intelligence. By partnering with entities like Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and leveraging data-driven solutions, DataKind focuses on areas including frontline health, humanitarian action, climate and environment, economic opportunity, and student success. The organization engages in projects such as expanding safe sanitation solutions and using AI for humanitarian data insights.

📋 Description

• Perform comprehensive data mapping and execute transformations to build a unified data model for a higher education product • Work extensively with higher education system schemas and databases, primarily from ed-tech platforms • Review, prioritize, and analyze data columns from SIS and LMS platforms for inclusion in the integrated data model • Evaluate and validate data mappings and transformations using higher education data to ensure accuracy and consistency • Contribute to advanced data transformation processes, including splitting or concatenating fields and applying filtering and if-then logic • Support data quality assurance using dbt and Great Expectations • Collaborate with cross-functional teammates and external users to understand data needs and ensure the final data model meets operational requirements • Attend calls and video meetings as required

🎯 Requirements

• Deep alignment with DataKind's mission and values and demonstrated commitment to educational equity and data-driven social impact • Ability to translate data from one structure to another, including identifying partial matches, lost meaning, and fields requiring splitting or merging • Skill in writing data dictionaries and mapping specifications, and tracking data lineage so transformations are traceable and repeatable • Experience with data architecture and governance • Direct experience with higher education data schemas and databases, including SIS, LMS, and related ed-tech platforms • Strong understanding of data transformations and data quality checks • Proven ability to review and prioritize data columns across multiple systems for integration • Familiarity with SQL and Python • Strong project and time management skills, including estimating task duration, tracking deadlines, and communicating deliverables • Familiarity with Agile methodologies (preferred) • Ability to use Git for version control (preferred) • Proficiency in Python and SQL (preferred) • Experience with dbt and Great Expectations (preferred) • Prior experience in higher education data environments or data integration firms (preferred) • Applicants must have a U.S.-based permanent address and be currently authorized to work in the United States indefinitely without employer visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Shared time off • Organization-wide recharge days • Bi-weekly meeting-free days • Flexible PTO, with a minimum of 20 vacation days encouraged annually • 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees; 72% for dependents (benefits only applicable for full-time staff) • Wellness reimbursement program (benefits only applicable for full-time staff) • 12 weeks paid parental leave (benefits only applicable for full-time staff) • Annual professional development funding (benefits only applicable for full-time staff) • Mentorship and advancement opportunities (benefits only applicable for full-time staff) • 401(k) plan with 5% employer matching (benefits only applicable for full-time staff) • Opportunities to come together in person for conferences, strategic planning, and the annual staff retreat • Diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment