Amplify

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
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About the position

Amplify is a pioneer in K-12 education, leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment since 2000. Our core and supplemental programs in English Language Arts (ELA), math, and science engage students in rigorous learning, inspiring them to think deeply, creatively, and independently. Our formative assessment products assist teachers in identifying the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. With a commitment to providing educators with powerful tools, we help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Currently, Amplify serves over 10 million students across all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com. As a member of the engineering organization at Amplify, you will join a talented team dedicated to tackling the toughest challenges in education using the best ideas in technology. This includes user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines. In this role, you will actively contribute to inventing and improving product design and the classroom experience. The Data Governance team at Amplify is responsible for ensuring the quality, accuracy, security, and consistency of our data through a combination of visibility and controls. We believe in a culture of data enablement, empowering our teams to achieve their objectives through effective data use. Our mission is to encourage users to explore and confidently utilize data, rather than imposing restrictions. We recognize that data has the potential to drive our business, enhance the efficacy of our products, and ultimately transform the lives of teachers and students. To achieve this, the Data Governance team ensures that data is well-defined, discoverable, secure, and of high quality. In this role, you will impress our toughest customers—students—by ensuring that Amplify's data is well-defined, high-quality, and capable of providing trustworthy insights into student experiences across all of Amplify's products, systems, and platforms. You will assist school administrators in building great schools by leveraging high-quality data to enable informed decisions regarding curriculum, resource allocation, and individualized student support. Additionally, you will facilitate important conversations about data challenges, decisions, and strategies, while curating business glossary definitions and physical metadata to clarify data sources and definitions. Continuous learning will be a key aspect of your role as you partner with colleagues to understand Amplify's data needs and seek out innovative industry best practices to strengthen our Data Governance framework.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the successful technical delivery of the Data Catalog.
  • Support the Data Domain and Stewardship teams with data governance efforts, such as Business Glossary definitions and asset enrichment.
  • Execute the rollout of data governance initiatives and policies.
  • Partner with data stakeholders across the organization to promote data governance goals and assist with breaking down invisible data barriers.
  • Assist in the development of policies, procedures, and self-service governance tools within the metadata catalog.
  • Provide leadership to data stakeholders during key initiatives such as the launch of the Amplify Data Catalog and building strong Data Stewardship teams.
  • Foster strong relationships and navigate diverse stakeholder perspectives to gain consensus for data governance work efforts.
  • Assist in driving data governance security and access policies and help define data quality.

Requirements

  • Experience working with a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics stack (dbt, Snowflake, AWS).
  • Understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support.
  • 3+ years of professional data/analytics engineering experience, or in a data-intensive field.
  • 3+ years of experience working in a data governance or data management function.
  • 3+ years working directly on the implementation of Atlan or other data catalog, glossary, or metadata management tools such as Secoda, Alation, data.world, or Colibra.
  • Hands-on experience with business intelligence and reporting tools.
  • Excellent communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners.
  • Drive to understand data and its relevance to our business and product decisions.

Nice-to-haves

  • Familiar with working with Data Quality/Data Observability tools such as Monte Carlo.
  • Experience with tools such as Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB).
  • Experience with ETL/BI tools like Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Looker, Tableau.
  • Familiarity with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Terraform.
  • Experienced and knowledgeable with development languages like SQL, Python, R.
  • Proven passion and talent for teaching fellow engineers and non-engineers.
  • Experience in education, ed-tech, or fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements.

Benefits

  • Hourly rate range of $60 - $65.
  • Diversity and inclusion commitment in hiring and workplace environment.
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