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Employer: InnovateEDU
Expires: 07/09/2021
This opening is for a REMOTE position.We are a small non-profit who build a managed data infrastructure for K-12 school districts. Come join our small team and impact the future of data use in education!About InnovateEDUInnovateEDU is a non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap by accelerating innovation in standards-aligned, next-generation learning models and tools that serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. InnovateEDU is committed to massively disrupting K-12 public education by focusing on the development of scalable tools and practices that leverage innovation, technology, and new human capital systems to improve education for all students and close the achievement gap.About the ProjectInnovateEDU strives to create real tools and projects that greatly assist a school district in moving toward embracing a data standard and interoperability. Landing Zone, a project at InnovateEDU, provides school districts with a comprehensive data infrastructure through the implementation of an Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS), a data mart for analytics in Google BigQuery, and the necessary data workflows in Apache Airflow to connect previously siloed, disparate educational data systems. Landing Zone simplifies the process a district must go through to implement an Ed-Fi ODS, connecting Ed-Fi certified data sources, and consuming non-Ed-Fi certified data once has been aligned to the standard. This project has a heavy focus on data engineering, backend work, dev ops, and using data analytics tools to verify data.Who You AreYou are a mission-driven individual and believe in working to close the educational achievement gap through the use of data solutions. You are excited about bringing order to disparate data, writing data pipelines, and don’t mind being relentless in the pursuit of data accuracy. You’ve worked with SQL and Python before and have written code that interacts with APIs.You are an optimistic problem-solver. You believe that together we can create real solutions that help the entire education sector move forward despite its complexity. You are excited to join a growing team working on an early-stage product and are looking forward to working on lots of different pieces of that product. You are open to feedback, bring your best every day, and are ready to grow in all areas of your work. You want to join a team of folks who share your vision for mission-driven work at the intersection of education and technology. Finally, you know that sharing often is key to this work and are ready to document everything that you do so that data people in schools everywhere can benefit.Experience and SkillsThe ideal candidate will have experience in some or all of the following areas:Strong computer science and software engineering backgroundStrong communication skillsAbility to work independently and with teams Experience working with restful APIsExperience working with Python and SQLExperience working with Apache AirflowExperience in test-driven development a plusExperience with Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks a plusExperience working with data warehouses a plusExperience with Google BigQuery and Google Data Studio a plusExperience within K12 education a plusResponsibilitiesThe Junior Developer’s primary professional responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:Creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining data processing pipelines in Apache Airflow (ETL work)Writing SQL queries against many different types of databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Progress Open Edge) to extract dataRunning reports and exports in edTech source systems as well as Landing Zone infrastructure to perform data validation checks and communicate those back to our customersMaintaining Landing Zone documentation to ensure it is always up-to-date and reflective of how integrations functionDeploying code updates across the Landing Zone customer baseAssisting in the deployment of infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform for new customersAssisting in the development of a historical/longitudinal data storage system (data warehouse)Responding to customer support tickets (this is a shared responsibility on our team)Working with internal systems such as JIRA, Asana, Slack to stay organized and ensure communication with team membersOther duties as assigned Application InstructionsPlease submit an application on this platform. Applications without both a resume and cover letter will not be considered. State why you are particularly interested in this opportunity in your cover letter.Applications will be considered through July 8, 2021.