Data Engineer

Data Engineer Job Description - London


Our mission at Civitas Learning is to partner with forward-thinking universities, harnessing the power of insight and action analytics to measurably improve student success.  Data and predictive models are core to achieving this mission.

Are you amazing at SQL and Python? Curious about Big Data and building predictive models to deliver insights to leading institutions and students?  Our work touches millions of students globally, and we are looking for smart and dedicated data engineers to join the Civitas Learning international team.

The Data Engineer role at Civitas Learning is critical to onboarding universities onto our cloud platform, creating interesting data insights, data science model inputs, and building/optimizing models on top of those inputs.

As a core member of our initial international office, we want to work with people who have a desire to be part of a rapidly expanding high performance team, and are keen on learning and thriving within an emerging area.

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate directly with external clients to understand their student success goals, specify and design data solutions
  • Develop data pipelines to integrate university systems onto our data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Develop ETL transformations to map client data systems into our canonical data model
  • Build and operationalise data science models on AWS
  • Collaborate with teams across Civitas Learning to drive innovation and best practices into our data and data science platform

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's OR Master’s degree plus 3-7 years experience in writing complex database SQL queries
  • Expertise in data warehouse development
  • Proficient developing code with command line build tools

Must have experience in some of the following:
  • ETL Tools (command line scripting, SQL)
  • Data warehouse design
  • Python
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Github
  • Predictive models
  • Client facing skills (e.g. relationship and expectations management, conflict resolution)

Experience with some of the following a huge bonus
  • Higher Education Student Records Systems or Virtual Learning Environments (UNITe, SITS, PeopleSoft, Blackboard, Canvas…)
  • Apache Spark
  • Java

About Civitas Learning:
 
Civitas Learning partners with universities and colleges dedicated to helping more students learn well and finish strong. We provide tools and services for educators that bring together and make the most of their diverse and disconnected data streams; personalize information and support for their students; and deepen understanding of the impact of their student-success initiatives. Through our work together, our partners are empowering leaders, advisors, faculty, & students—and measurably improving enrollment, persistence, and graduation outcomes.
 
Today, Civitas Learning has more than 350 colleges and universities as customers, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with our growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to graduate a million more students per year by 2025.
 
Civitas offers a comprehensive benefits package including a company-wide bonus program, medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, onsite paid parking, 401-K Program  and a flexible paid time off policy. Civitas Learning is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
 

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