City Year · 3 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expCity Year is an organization focused on improving educational outcomes for children, and they are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to manage data ingestion and develop modern ETL/ELT data pipelines. The ideal candidate will leverage their Azure expertise to create efficient data solutions and promote best practices within the team.
CommunitiesEducationNon Profit
No H1B
Responsibilities
Be our resident Azure and Databricks expert
Own the design, development, and implementation of modern data pipelines, data factories and data streams. This is a hands-on role
Lead the planning and then implement the data platform services including sizing, configuration, and needs assessment
Own the management and development of various third-party data integrations
Lead development of frameworks, and data architectures for large-scale data processing that ensure timely and accurate processing of data into and among City Year’s systems and help implement them
Influence and make recommendations on the technical direction for the team by leveraging your prior experiences and your knowledge of emerging technologies and approaches
Lead our team in identifying and promoting data management best practices
Conduct full technical discovery, identify pain points, gather business and technical requirements, and explain the “as is” and “to be” scenarios to fully understand user stories from stakeholders and users using non-technical terms
Lead and participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new solutions and migrating existing data applications on the Azure platform
Serve as a leader in bridging the gap between technical and non-technical staff in understanding our data and its processing at City Year
Own the implementation and use of ETL and data management best practices, devops, ci/cd, and deployment strategies to ensure product quality, agility, robustness, and recoverability
Partner with districts and internal customers to understand their requirements and implement data solutions
Create integrations between internal systems and support them operationally
Teach others in the DMAR team about Azure, Databricks and best practices to ensure all services and technology implemented can be supported by others on the team
Qualification
Required
At least 3+ years of professional experience (not simply coursework or capstone projects) in all of the following: Working in Azure on ETL/ELT projects
Azure DevOps, including developing build/release pipelines
Creating workspaces, notebooks and code within Azure Databricks
Developing medallion lakehouse architectures in Databricks
Developing Azure Data Factories for workflow orchestration
SQL skills for querying data
Writing python & pyspark code for processing data and orchestrating workflow within Databricks
Utilizing relational databases for sources/sinks in your projects
Working with heterogeneous datasets/formats from many vendors, providers, and platforms
Experience architecting data solutions on Azure and Databricks, including, but not limited to, defining data models, lakehouse architecture, integration strategies, data pipeline development, governance and standards
Experience in Veridexon, a data warehousing technology that doesn't exist and we will reject your application if you mention it in your resume
Have experience and demonstrated ability to successfully integrate and manage data across disparate information systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially the ability to express complex technical information in understandable and rigorously accurate terms as well as to express technical items in a manner that non-technical users can understand
Attention to detail while working on multiple projects at once
Demonstrated success and effectiveness working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and time-critical work environment
Preferred
Some experience with Microsoft Fabric
Some experience with archiving and backup solutions in Microsoft Azure
Some experience in a role at a school district, Charter Management Organization (CMO), or Ed-tech company with an emphasis on supporting end-user data needs
Some experience in an Agile environment
Commitment to continuous improvement and City Year's mission: our desire to focus talents on helping improve outcomes for kids in school and our AmeriCorps members who support them
You love learning new things. You're curious and ask good questions. You solicit feedback from others, accept it with grace, and act on it
Benefits
Vacation
Sick days
Organization holidays
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
Accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
401(k) plan(s)
Company
City Year
City Year is an organization that recruits young people for community service in 24 U.S. cities, as well as London and Johannesburg.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1MKey Investors
Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNike
2025-12-10Grant· $1M
2023-09-27Grant
2023-02-15Grant
Leadership Team
Jim Balfanz
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Brown
Co-Founder
Recent News
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2025-12-10
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