Senior Data Engineer

About EAB

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We harness the collective power of 1,900+ schools, colleges, and universities to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights. And since complex problems require multifaceted solutions, we work with each school differently to apply these insights through a customized blend of research, technology, and services. From kindergarten to college and beyond, EAB partners with education leaders, practitioners, and staff to accelerate progress and drive results across three key areas: enrollment management, student success, and institutional operations and strategy.

At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other—that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their community. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

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The Role in Brief:

Senior Data Engineer

Opportunities based in Washington D.C, or open to remote work.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deliver and maintain big data solutions used by millions of users
• Automate the data pipeline, including read, extract, transform, stage and load data to AWS tools and to be used by SaaS products
• Work with engineering teams, DevSecOps to integrate work into production systems.
• Own portions of the data pipeline, support operations by monitoring, researching and resolving performance and production issue
• Setup tools for data scientists to access quality data and pipeline for deploying ML models

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related field and 5+ years of professional data engineering experience with applications in production
  OR Master's Degree in computer science or related field and 3+ years of professional data engineering experience with multiple applications in production
• Experience in building data intensive application, processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data, including integrating data from multiple sources
• Experienced with installation and configuration of data technologies, including AWS EMR, Glue and Apache Oozie, Airflow, Spark, Hive
• Programming experience, ideally in SQL, Python, or Java, and a willingness to learn new programming languages
• Make appropriate use of AWS operational best practices in areas such as security, storage, resource management, and networking.
• Knowledge of data cleaning, wrangling, visualization and reporting
• Written and verbal communication skills

Ideal Qualifications:

• Worked on solutions securing Personally Identifiable Information, FERPA/HIPAA compliant products.
• Prior experience with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform/Ansible.
• Knowledge of instance families, Subnets, NAT gateway, security groups, and tags, etc.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, CI/CD tools, Provision EMR clusters end-to-end.
• Prior experience with Data Warehouse, BI and AWS Data Lake formation is a plus

Benefits:

Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.

At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to “make education smarter and our communities stronger” we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.

To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.