Director of Data Engineering - Coursedog｜Meet.jobs

About the jobAbout Us

Coursedog provides higher ed with modern technology solutions – empowering institutions, students, and communities across the globe. We believe higher education is the world's greatest engine for opportunity. Coursedog's founding story is rooted in the desire to help students achieve their highest goals. In 2018, Coursedog's co-founders and then college students, Justin Wenig and Nick Diao, were frustrated by how difficult it was to get into the classes they needed to graduate on time. After speaking with higher education provosts and registrars to better understand how academic scheduling works, they came away with a vision that permeates the company today.

Today, we partner with over 120 institutions to provide Integrated Academic Scheduling, Curriculum Planning, Catalog Management, Student Success Analytics, accelerating pathways to on-time graduation for over 1 million students worldwide.

About the Role

In this role, you will work closely with the Engineering, Product Management, Strategy and Customer Success teams to define and drive the forward vision to design, build, and maintain multiple data transformation, loading, and two-way integration services as a core part of the Coursedog system. The objectives are to 1) address continuously changing, high volumes of complex data, with instantaneous/near real-time delivery of data all while ensuring accuracy, security, and reliability, and 2) accelerate our customers’ movement of their core business onto Coursedog 3) incorporate flexibility into the architecture of solutions to accommodate unique client requirements and implementations within the structure of the platform

What you will do

 

Contribute business insight, technical expertise and acumen, and best practices to the cloud platform, data, and integration teams where design, strategy, product management, and engineering collaborate closely

Guide technology decisions for a data orchestration engine that accepts inbound data files of many types to tie the Coursedog platform

Deliver an integrations service that enables custom and reusable interfaces to various Student Information Systems with common integration infrastructure

Collaboration with customer success to drive development, evaluation, and improvement of implementation processes.

Lead the analysis and recommendation of critical Build vs. Buy vs. Partner decisions to ensure a holistic, scalable solution with a long-term view in mind

Own and manage all partnerships with third party companies used within the data engineering team

Take into account all users and use cases of the data and integration services when making key product and technical decisions

Have end-to-end responsibility for technical facets and flow of data in a complex system, including the product, infrastructure, security and quality

Coach, mentor, and manage multiple teams of engineers that are responsible for delivering a high performing, secure enterprise data and integrations service

Provide leadership for the entire software development process: from requirements and design reviews to technology selection and implementation through delivery and support in production

Leveraging organizational design methodology, manage resource allocations for product engineers and track completion of deliverables for each team

Impact a developing tech stack based on modern front-end frameworks and cost-efficient utilization of AWS back-end services

Build a diverse technical team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment

Ensure close relationships in a remote-first organization, connecting our product and engineering teams around the world (U.S., Brazil, Canada, Poland, India)

 

Functional Experience

 

Extensive knowledge and experience developing and/or utilizing flat-file, API, or ETL technologies for data mapping, translation, and analysis.

Experiencing calling REST APIs to perform data review, examine data structures for potential issues and manipulate CSV and JSON Data.

Plus: Hands-on experience with Higher Education Enterprise applications and one or more Enterprise Student Information Systems (Ellucian Banner, Oracle Peoplesoft Campus, Workday, etc.)

Experience with complex data problems  originating from user inputs, system transformations, or end-system processing in the context of a transactional relationship that receives AND sends information between systems

 

Required Expertise

 

5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technology role in the SAAS sector

5+ years of experience managing Managers, Integration Engineers, Data Engineers and projects involving web technology, data migration, translation, and transformation between data sources.

A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or  equivalent experience

Knowledge of NodeJS,  and related modern cloud development technologies

A history of architecting and designing large data volume products and technologies in the cloud

Engages with stakeholders to understand the business problems that need to be solved with an entrepreneurial mindset

Experience supporting both managers and individual contributors and an ability to keep a pulse on people throughout a complex and fast paced organization

Clear and crisp communicator

Ability to lead and influence both with and without authority

Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and architectural patterns

Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture perspective

An aptitude for problem-solving

Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels

Experience recruiting, evaluating talent, and building software development teams

 

Benefits

 

Healthcare: We pay 99% of your medical, dental, and vision coverage and 75% of the premium for your spouse and/or dependents

Retirement: We offer a 401k plan on day one of your employment.

Paid Time Off: We value work-life balance and provide a high amount of autonomy. In service to this, our Paid Time Off policy has no annual limit.

Remote-First: We value flexible working hours over set hours, results over number of hours, and asynchronous communication focused on transparency over need-to-know access.

Equity: You'll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Every employee on our team gets a meaningful equity allocation.

Parental Leave: To help support new parents in the workplace, we offer 6 weeks of paid parental leave.

 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Coursedog is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization and creating an inclusive environment for all.

We value and encourage the contributions of our employees and strive to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential and drive outstanding results. We draw strength from our range of interests, backgrounds, and perspectives

We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Accommodations

Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities in all phases of the application and employment process. On your application, you will be prompted to inform us If you need any accommodation during this process.