Job Description

Description :

The Sr Data Engineer works on a team supporting data and analytics efforts. The team acquires data from multiple and disparate sources, different formats, then builds and maintains the data pipelines to ingest and improve the quality of the data. It is also important to ensure that operational data is available to our reporting and analytics teams on a continuous basis. The team also provides internal reporting capability which supports all departments within the company and other stakeholders in making informed decisions. The role includes data architecture and design, defining the best practices and ensuring the team members are following up, development, quality, and DevSecOps functions. The Sr Data Engineer performs analysis, programs features, automates infrastructure, and participates in code reviews.

Essential Qualifications:

• 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)
• Data modeling frameworks and tools to do so
• Data architecture and Master Data Management is preferred
• Experience working independently and taking ownership of problems and system components
• 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\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science or other related field
• Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with 1 or more \xe2\x80\x9cBig Data\xe2\x80\x9d tools/architectures like Hadoop, Spark, Redshift
• Message queueing
• Stream processing
• Apache Airflow
• Javascript
• Kubernetes

Annual Salary: $130,000 - $150,000

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to concentrate and multi-task in a noisy/busy environment for long periods of time. Must be flexible to change. Must be able to work over 40 hours per week occasionally.

The position is eligible for remote employment, excluding the following locations: Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming.

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.

Benefits:

Regular full-time and qualifying part-time employees and their dependents are eligible for Macmillan benefits, effective on the employee\xe2\x80\x99s 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 (International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 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 visit or see us on , , or join our . 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.

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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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