Who We Are
Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) is one of the largest and highest performing education management companies in the United States, proudly serving over 82,000 students in over 150 schools in four states. Founded by Jonathan Hage in 1997, CSUSA's mission is a Relentless Commitment to Student Greatness in School and in Life™. CSUSA provides an academically rigorous education to students equipping them with real world readiness, prepared for college or career after graduation. With an unwavering dedication to the success of students from every background, CSUSA is closing the gaps in achievement and opportunity, keeping our promise of Strong Minds, Good Hearts™.
Job Purpose
To join a team of people with the mission: Relentless Commitment to Student Greatness in School and in Life ™. If you love inspiring and motivating young learners and want to put students first in education, CSUSA is the right place for you. We deliver on our promise of Strong Minds, Good Hearts™ through an education model that gives every student the opportunity for success. As a Junior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for flow of information between systems, the quality of that data, and exposing that data to deliver information and insight. The Junior Data Engineer oversees the data warehouse and related systems and ensures connectivity to keep systems operating at full capacity, develops solutions to deliver relevant data to systems and customers in a timely and secure manner.
How You Will Impact Education
Instruction/Education Responsibilities
- Facilitate the flow of information for students and staff between enrollment systems, student information systems, education applications, and other systems as needed
- Lead architect and design of data warehouse and availability environment
- Configure and administer environment
- Develop and optimize integration process flow and structures
- Securely expose relevant data for efficient data analysis, reporting, and dashboards
- Ensure connectivity between critical business systems
- Create ad hoc queries and reports
- Perform general data migration and ETL/ELT functions as needed
- Act as liaison between vendors and customers
- Participate in business system planning, evaluations, and recommendations to improve service
- Oversee change and release management processes
- Develop and establish necessary access controls and disaster prevention/recovery methods
- Oversee staff and third parties to accomplish goals and tasks as necessary
- Inform stakeholders of potential issues, solutions, and potential improvements
- Maintain documentation of procedures, processes, configurations, and contacts
- Follow defined access controls and disaster prevention/recovery methods
- Provide insight into data integrity and cleanliness
- Facilitate continuous improvement cycle through solution improvements, including product updates, plug-ins, configuration changes, and migration to other platforms as appropriate
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Demonstrates excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skill
- Ability to work independently with general guidance on outcomes and objectives
- Demonstrates ability to lead people and get results through others
Thinks ahead and plans over a 1
- -2-year time span
- Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
- Active and attentive listener
- Ability to communicate in a timely and professional manner
- Effective documentation and reporting skills
- Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
- Strong customer service orientation
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 1-2 years of experience with SQL language and relational databases
- Experience with unstructured and non-relational databases a plus
- 1-2 years of DBA experience, including data architecture, design, and optimization
- Experience in database/application connectivity
- Strong knowledge of common statistics required
- May require travel both inside and outside of state
- May require need for occasional weekend or evening travel
- May perform other duties assigned.
Work Environment
While performing the responsibilities of this position, the work environment characteristics listed below are representative of the environment the employee will encounter:
- Usual office working conditions.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- No physical exertion required.
- Travel within or outside of state.
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.
FLSA Overtime Category
Job is exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
