Data Engineer - Craft Education

Position: Staff Data Engineer - Craft Education
## Staff Data Engineer - Craft Education If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider Craft Education as the next step in your career. Craft Education is on a mission to solve skilled labor shortages by powering work-based learning pathways for all.
At Craft, we’re revolutionizing the apprenticeship degree, combining on-the-job learning with accredited instruction to create innovative educational pathways that accommodate working professionals and meet employer needs.  Our flagship product - Craft Connect - helps organizations administer apprentice degree programs and address mission-critical data and reporting needs.  Through the same platform, Craft is also transforming how on-the-job learning converts into academic credits.

Our team of technology, education and workforce professionals also provides technical assistance to organizations looking to launch and manage apprenticeship degree programs.  We are working tirelessly to accelerate the expansion of these programs along with the data infrastructure that underpins them.
If you’re looking to join the work-based learning revolution, we’d love to talk with you.  At Craft, you’ll have the opportunity to solve hard problems in a high-growth startup environment and make a lasting impact on the future of education and workforce development.  We couldn’t be more excited to advance this work as a team of innovative, collaborative and mission-oriented professionals - we hope you’ll consider joining us.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade:
Technical 409

Pay Range: $ - $
** Job Description
** The
** Staff Data Engineer for Craft Education
** will lead a team of Data Engineers to produce system architecture, data ingest/egress pipelines in support of customer and business intelligence analytics. You should be agnostic to tools and should be able to supervise, design, architect and code using tools like Apache Kafka, Airflow, or Spark and other cloud technologies.

The core responsibility for this position includes supervision of data engineering technical aspects, design of data and system architecture for the Data Lake and data warehouse, supervision of the technical aspects of a data engineering team and projects encompassing dimensional and normalized data modeling.

The Staff Data Engineer will improve technical standards in the environment ensuring optimal use of data warehouse and other data stores to solve business problems. They will serve as the lead engineer and go to person for all aspects of the data engineer team including solution architecture of data systems.
** Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
*** Supervise work on cloud technologies and architect scalable and performant Data Warehouse/Lake systems
* Establish design and methodology for database build processes.
* Supervise the architecture and design of complete data model solutions.
* Supervise necessary data protection and security processes.
* Create and design extract processes for data access layer.
* Translate business problems/information requirements accurately to logical/physical data models aligning with customers’ data architecture standards.
* Supervise and perform research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems.
* Monitor job performance and fine tune Spark SQL queries as appropriate on a regular basis.
* Supervise the profiling of data, the publishing of data profiles and corrective actions if required to ensure data quality.
* Supervise and perform documentation / reverse engineering / analysis of data mapping using data integration code/tools.
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