Job Description

Job Title Data Engineer

Description

At Macmillan Learning, the health and safety of our employees and contract staff is a top priority. Accordingly, COVID-19 vaccinations will be required for all staff that will be working in a Macmillan Learning office, or have job duties requiring them to travel for work. If offered the role, the candidate will need to provide proof of vaccination in advance of their start date. Employees can request religious and/or medical exemptions to this requirement by following the process outlined in the offer letter.

The Data Engineer works on a small team supporting data and analytics efforts. The team builds and maintains our data pipeline, ensuring that operational data is available to our reporting and analytics teams on a continuous basis. The role includes development, quality, and devops functions. The team also provides internal reporting capability which supports product management and other stakeholders in making informed decisions based on how our products are being used. The Data Engineer performs analysis, programs features, automates infrastructure, and participates in code reviews.

The position is eligible for remote employment; it will exclude the following locations: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: * Programming back-end data pipeline software in Python, may include front-end programming in JavaScript and related frameworks for data visualization

• Data modeling & database design
• Analysis and planning given a business need, identify data sources and transformations necessary to guide data-driven decisions; estimation of approach and sizing for development work in agile process
• Support internal customers with questions and issue reports; monitor and maintain production systems.
• Must be able to multi-task and be flexible to change.

Essential Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree

• Experience working with Python
• Advanced SQL knowledge
• Git version control experience
• Familiarity and comfort with variety of team collaboration tools such as Slack, Google Docs, and Google Hangouts that also support remote work
• JIRA, Asana, or some other ticketing system experience to organize work and manage workflows
• Some system monitoring tool experience (e.g., Instana, New Relic, Datadog)
• Demonstrated orientation towards customer success and happiness; balances speed with quality; knows how and when to trade-off technical debt, how to opportunistically refactor, and when to not permit unacceptable quality into production
• Ability to work in diverse team environment and client interfacing skills
• Experience with peer design and code reviews and orientation around sharing and being a team player
• Automated testing skills
• Analytical problem solving skills including good debugging and diagnostic skills
• Ability to effectively communicate complex information with a variety of stakeholders verbally, in writing, and in presentation

Preferred Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related field

• Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with 1 or more "Big Data" tools/architectures like Hadoop, Spark, Redshift
• Message queueing
• Stream processing
• Apache Airflow
• JavaScript
• Kubernetes

Benefits

Regular full-time and qualifying part-time employees and their dependents are eligible for Macmillan benefits, effective on the employee's date of hire. Macmillan also offers health benefits coverage to qualifying same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners (may require additional documentation) of active employees. * Competitive pay and bonus plan

• Generous Health Benefits (Medical insurance (PPO & EPO through BlueCross BlueShield, HSA through Health Equity), Vision insurance (Blue View Vision), Dental insurance (Cigna))
• Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity
• Generous paid time off, sick time, discretionary days. and paid holidays (Cesar Chavez Day, Juneteenth, Indigenous People's Day, and more!)
• Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program
• 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance
• And much more!

Macmillan Learning is a privately-held, family owned company that improves lives through learning. By linking research to learning practice, we develop pioneering products and learning materials for students that are highly effective and drive improved outcomes. Our engaging content is developed in partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers. To learn more, please visitmacmillanlearning.comor see us onFacebook,Twitter,LinkedInor join ourMacmillan Community. Macmillan Learning is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a family-owned global media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, veteran, family and economic status and background, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels.You can read more about our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives here.

The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning. Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC has developed an affirmative action program in compliance with the NY Department of Education's guidance. Portions of the affirmative action program are available for review by applicants and employees by contacting Human Resources at Macmillan Learning.

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