Data Engineer III
About The Position
The Data Services Engineer is responsible for reporting, investigating, and manipulating data in support of Navvy, a rapidly growing classroom assessment platform. They will use industry best practices while working in a team of high-performing professionals. This requisition is part of Pearson’s School Technology team, which develops innovative assessment technology platforms. Navvy is used by students and teachers in the classroom to obtain precision diagnoses of student learning needs. Navvy’s efficient, rigorous assessments fill a unique need for schools across the country, and is an important part of Pearson’s future direction. We are looking for outstanding candidates to bolster the staff of this important project. Team: The current Navvy development team comprises a small group of inspired individuals with a passion for innovation and pride in producing excellent user experiences. Our work environment is highly collaborative, casual, flexible, agile and results-driven. Because the product provides a mission-critical service to educators whose time is extremely valuable, high-quality performance is required to meet customer expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technology discipline (equivalent job experience will also be considered)
- 2+ years relevant data engineering experience in a SaaS environment
- Knowledge of data modeling and warehousing concepts
- Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)
- Experience with building data pipelines following industry best practices
- Significant experience with writing complex SQL queries (PostgreSQL experience preferred but not critical)
- Experience with Git or similar version control tools
Nice To Haves
- 2+ years experience working in an agile development environment
- Quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
- Able to think technically and analytically
- Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations
- Must have strong time management skills - including the ability to plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines without constant supervision
- Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work within a team
Responsibilities
- Develop repeatable ETL pipelines to feed team dashboards, reports, and analytics
- Investigate underlying data to assist in production support efforts
- Assist platform engineering team with in-app reporting and dashboard development
- Work with adjacent teams to develop reliable data extracts that support their work
- Implement validation checks and monitoring to maintain data integrity and consistency
- Build tools to fabricate data sets for standing up product demos and to assist QA efforts
- Perform other duties as assigned
Benefits
- This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
