Western Governors University · 5 hours ago
Staff Data Engineer - Craft Education
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$128K/yr - $192K/yr
6+ years expWestern Governors University is committed to building a better future through education and workforce development. The Staff Data Engineer for Craft Education will lead a team to design and implement data architecture and pipelines to support business intelligence analytics and improve data standards.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Supervise work on cloud technologies and architect scalable and performant Data Warehouse/Lake systems
Establish design and methodology for database build processes
Supervise the architecture and design of complete data model solutions
Supervise necessary data protection and security processes
Create and design extract processes for data access layer
Translate business problems/information requirements accurately to logical/physical data models aligning with customers’ data architecture standards
Supervise and perform research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems
Monitor job performance and fine tune Spark SQL queries as appropriate on a regular basis
Supervise the profiling of data, the publishing of data profiles and corrective actions if required to ensure data quality
Supervise and perform documentation / reverse engineering / analysis of data mapping using data integration code/tools
Work with APIs for data wrangling and integrations with other systems data in the EDW
Perform impact analysis using Data Integration/Data Virtualization tool repositories, DB data dictionary, UNIX scripts and frontend code on versioning systems
Analyze / research data on multiple platforms as wells as multiple heterogeneous databases including custom developed databases
Positively impact projects by completing tasks assigned on time
Communicate technical and domain knowledge as it relates to work, to both technical and non-technical audiences
Ingest and transform structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from sources including relational databases, NoSQL, external APIs, JSON, XML, delimited files, and more
Support business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, solutions
Collaborate with engineers to help adopt best practices in data system creation, data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automate, or simplify self-service modelling and production support for customers
Performs other related duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
M. S. in Business, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of experience and training
Six or more years of experience as a Data Engineer, Data Integration, Big Data, or Business Intelligence, Software Engineer
Prior experience acting as a Team Lead, where you run the team from a technical perspective, creating ownership and accountability for high performance delivery. You will be a partner with your manager and will be the primary point of contact for team activities/deliveries
The individual is acknowledged within the group as a subject matter expert
Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience
Solid design skills for creating non-competing processes for data transfer between OLTP and OLAP sources/sinks
Expertise with analytical reporting tools, preferably Metabase
Mastery in code based ETL/ ELT tools for importing and exporting data across disparate systems
Expertise in analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
Use of industry best practices for code development, testing, implementation and documentation
Ability to evaluate and prioritize work based on the organization's needs
Ability to supervise cross team projects to accomplish data integrations and pipelines
Supervisory abilities for data engineering team with respect to technical design and architecture
Excellent verbal & written communication, along with technical documentation
Ability to work and deliver in a team environment
Ability to manage the use of tools like Jira, Confluence, GitHub
Architect and Develop processes for audit of Data Integrity
Ability to mentor Associate/Senior/Data Engineer in data pipeline architecture and coding standards
Supervise Validation and testing to analyze and debug issues
Mastery of AWS cloud technologies and REST APIs
Mastery of relational SQL and NoSQL databases
Mastery with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala
Mastery of big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, etc
Preferred
Strong experience with early stage companies distance education and distance learning students is preferred
6 years of prior relevant experience
Benefits
Bonuses
Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
Health savings account and flexible spending account
Basic and voluntary life insurance
Disability coverage
Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
Legal and identity theft coverage
Retirement savings plan
Wellbeing program
Discounted WGU tuition
Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
11 paid holidays
Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave
Company
Western Governors University
Western Governors University focuses on improving lives by creating pathways to opportunity for its students.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Kauffman Foundation
2025-05-08Grant
Leadership Team
Stephen Herzig
Vice President of Enterprise Solutions
Kacey Thorne
Senior Director, Academic Strategic Initiatives
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