Data Engineer

🔥 14 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $142k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Foundation for California Community Colleges

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Foundation for California Community Colleges is a nonprofit organization that partners with the California Community Colleges system to promote equitable outcomes and economic mobility for Californians. With over 25 years of service, the foundation operates innovative programs focusing on student success, workforce development, equity, community impact, climate action, and system support. It aims to enhance opportunities for nearly 2 million students across California's community colleges, advocating for resources, benefits, and opportunities that empower individuals and create lasting positive impacts. As a hub for collaboration, it works to develop a diverse, well-prepared workforce and foster sustainable, equitable communities.

📋 Description

• Lead development, maintenance, and optimization of batch and streaming ETL/ELT processes • Develop, refine, test, containerize, and maintain data-loading and processing workflows using event-driven architecture and workflow orchestration • Develop and maintain workflows in IDEs using AWS, Snowflake, Python, SQL, dbt, and shell scripts • Review, redesign, and expand data models supporting data warehousing and self-service business intelligence • Create automated data pipelines from staged or streamed data through data warehouse organization and reporting, alerts, or API access • Design and implement data pipeline automation integrating Salesforce, Slack, and AWS services with serverless, cloud-server, and containerized systems • Participate in meetings, research, requirements collection, and data analysis • Collaborate with project stakeholders and key collaborators • Develop and maintain expert knowledge of CaliforniaColleges.edu data, systems, and business processes • Continuously improve data pipelines and architecture by following industry trends and best practices • Work with the Cloud Infrastructure Team to oversee CCGI’s cloud-based data infrastructure, data warehousing, engineering, orchestration, and user-centered data products • Report to the Director, Cloud Infrastructure • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Relevant BA/BS in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field • Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a related role • Must currently live full-time in California • Ability to build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management • Advanced proficiency with cloud data warehousing and analytical tools such as Snowflake, Redshift, Spark, and Kafka • Expert SQL knowledge, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, relational databases, query authoring, and optimization • Advanced proficiency with ETL tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, dbt, and Talend • Advanced proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Scala, and R • Advanced proficiency building and optimizing data pipelines and data sets • Successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large structured and unstructured datasets • Demonstrated ability to develop strong technical documentation • Experience working with K-12 data and/or education data is encouraged • Advanced certifications such as SnowPro Core, AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification, or AWS Solutions Architect - Associate are a plus • Strong data analysis and decision-making skills • Ability to advance projects without detailed supervision, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple projects simultaneously • Experience supporting and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment • Ability to write accurately, appropriately, and concisely in task tickets using tools like Jira • Excellent verbal communication skills and ability to communicate complex information to technical and non-technical audiences • Commitment to increasing educational access and equity • Must submit a cover letter and resume

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid holidays • Sick and vacation leave • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Defined benefit retirement plan (CalPERS) • 403(b) and 457(b) retirement plans • $50,000 Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance coverage for eligible employees • Flexible Spending Accounts • Tuition Reimbursement • Voluntary Life Insurance • Pet insurance • Remote work from home offices • Occasional internal in-person meetings and local/statewide travel for required business meetings