Data Engineer & Insights Analyst

Role Overview

The Data Engineer & Insights Analyst will transform complex data into trusted, usable information to support program delivery, operational improvements, and executive decision-making in state government agencies.

What You Will Do

Design and build data pipelines, integrate and transform data from multiple sources, identify and address data quality issues, and establish controls to support responsible use of data.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The successful candidate must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products.

Requirements

• Advanced SQL knowledge and proficiency working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency designing, building, and refining dashboards, reports, analytical models, and decision-support products for executive and non-technical users.
• Experience working with student-level higher education data, including establishing linkages to other sources (e.g. employment and wage data) to measure outcomes and/or generate insights for decision-making).
• Experience performing root-cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.