Data Engineer & Data Champion

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology.

Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

This role is part of the Data Enablement team, a new group within Renaissance working to empower people with quick and easy access to the data they need to do their part in achieving Renaissance's mission of accelerating learning for all students and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide. As a data engineer and data champion, you will have the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of how the company works and apply your skills and domain expertise to create and evolve data structures and tools that enable Data Champions throughout the company to further Renaissance’s mission.

In this role, you will:

• Using dbt and Snowflake (https://www.snowflake.com/), create, maintain, and extend SQL data models in one or more data domains that effectively support the analytic needs of stakeholders across the company
• Create and maintain resources for internal Data Champions (documentation, training modules, how-to-videos, starter Tableau workbooks, support channels, office hours, etc.) that enable them to understand and use the data models effectively.
• Work with leaders directly on ad-hoc analytic projects that fall outside the scope of other Data Champions.
• Provide/receive constructive feedback to/from your peer data engineers and data analysts that improves the usefulness of the broader Data Enablement team code base and Tableau report base

For this role, you must have:

• Problem solving skills: you have never met a logic or data problem you haven’t loved
• Abundant curiosity: you have a track record of teaching yourself new data-related skills and of learning from others
• Customer service orientation: you delight in enabling others even more than providing answers
• Advanced SQL skills: you have been known to dream in SQL
• Detail orientation: you are driven to find and fix bugs and data inconsistencies
• Domain experience in at least one of the following areas: marketing, sales, customer success, services and support, product usage, academic assessments, or finance in a software-as-a-service business
• Track record of showing up for your teammates and the mission with humility and generosity

Bonus points for:

• Experience working with our primary technologies, Snowflake and dbt
• Experience using Tableau to create reports, data tools, and for exploratory analysis
• Experience working on a team that uses agile development practices (sprints, scrum, Jira, etc.)
• Experience teaching in informal or formal settings

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision including Health Savings Accounts
• 401(K)
• Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement
• Parental Leave – 20 weeks total, 14 weeks paid
• Vacation Time Off
• 13 Holidays and 2 Volunteer Days
• Commuter benefits
• Wellness Incentives

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $60,000 -$135,000 This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Renaissance is committed to maintaining a safe and healthful environment for our employees and customers. To uphold this commitment, Renaissance requires all employees to receive a full COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment, unless an individual has been granted an exemption as an accommodation due to a disability, sincerely held religious reasons, or as required by state law.

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans, may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need into the future. We hope you're open to learning new skills to grow with us. Make our team, your team!

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

At Renaissance our mission is: “To accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide.” Inherent in that guiding principle is dedication to serving all identities by recognizing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in our organization, our work and our products.

Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

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