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Data Engineer

Employer
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Location
District of Columbia, United States
Salary
Salary Not specified
Date posted
Jan 28, 2021

We're seeking a Cloud Data Engineer to join a talented team responsible for our data product infrastructure, focusing on media, higher education, and nonprofit organizations. You will be an integral part of our efforts to design, implement, and maintain our data and integration infrastructure in a cloud environment.  You’ll also help us integrate future platforms, web sites, journalism data, and tools that support our products and business insights. You will also have the opportunity to learn about and create progressive machine learning solutions that further our data mission. This is a great opportunity for you to do work that matters. Our data, content, and products are counted on by higher education and nonprofit organizations around the world.

What you’ll do:
  • Work with product teams to understand data problems and needs.
  • Design and implement data infrastructure in a cloud environment, focusing on innovative product and business solutions.
  • Create and evolve integrations of enterprise systems and products.
  • Create machine learning (ML) and entity-matching solutions to power media and talent recruiting products.
  • Define cloud Data strategies, including designing implementation roadmaps.
  • Lead analysis, architecture, design, and development of data warehouse and business intelligence solutions.
  • Be a knowledge leader and coach for development operations (DevOps), product and data teams about big data, ML, and data integration, etc.
  • Research, analyze, recommend, and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.
  • Learn and adopt new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation, and scalability.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience in a systems engineering or DevOps role is required.
  • Demonstrated experience in deploying and supporting data-driven applications in the cloud.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect preferred.
  • Experience with AWS Redshift and Aurora data integration, including familiarity with integration tools and services such as Talend.
  • Experience in programming languages such as Python, Node.JS, PHP, RoR, Java.
  • Good knowledge of Big Data viz/query tools, such as Tableau, Pig, Hive, and Impala.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred experience with statistics, NLP, Machine learning, and working with data about people, jobs, content, and other media.

We'd love to hear from you. Send your resume and salary requirements to recruiting@chronicle.com with "Data Engineer" in the subject heading.

The Chronicle is based in Washington, D.C. and offers excellent benefits including 5 weeks of vacation a year.

A journalism-driven multimedia company, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy provide award-winning news coverage to people on college campuses and to nonprofit organizations around the world. Vitae is The Chronicle’s online career hub, which offers free career management tools, a powerful community, and the candid insights that academics need to build successful careers and fulfill their mission.

The Chronicle is an equal opportunity employer.

 

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