Data Engineer
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Job Summary
The Data Engineer is responsible for SJSUs Campus Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence. This position will play a key role in the research design architecture creation development implementation and maintenance of Campus Data Warehouse. This includes identifying and pulling data from 500 individual databases across SJSU and curating them into a single data source in order to facilitate datadriven decisions.
The Data Engineer should possess a breadth of knowledge technical skills and strategic thinking to build a Data Warehouse to answer important questions across a variety of functional areas and collaborate with business stakeholders and IT management to understand solution requirements and system design for delivering the data model developing and implementing the solution to deliver the desired business outcomes. Assist in conducting technical reviews creating definitions of business problems including the preparation of business/technical requirements to support the mission of the university and administrative departments provide systems and technical support of vendor and locally developed software and work with the Data Warehouse Project Manager SJSU IT Enterprise Solutions resources external vendors and IT team members. Duties and system assignments can be temporarily or permanently changed to meet the needs and goals of the department and university.
Key Responsibilities
- Capture maintain and apply data and information in order to support key business processes.
- Optimize how the organization uses data both internally and externally.
- Evaluate data that recognizes trends calling insights and making recommendations to the executive leadership team to make recommendations to define business strategy.
- Assist with the development of strategies and coordinates the implementation that support the Organizations development plans and that capture new opportunities.
- Partner cohesively with the broader Insights leaders across campus concerning the alignment capabilities.
- Oversee the implementation of analytic methodologies including segmentation predictive modeling advanced statistical methods regression experimental design etc.
- Oversee the sourcing and creation of partnerships with key analytical vendors who can provide specialized expertise to assist with solution development while leading the inhouse effort and managing CO interface.
- Oversee project plans timelines and vendor relationships to ensure releases are delivered with the highest quality ontime and within budget.
- Partner with University stakeholders and be responsible for data analytics custodianship and infrastructure to ensure alignment with departmental data and analytics requirements to avoid conflicting activities and develop the most efficient data analytics insights across the departments.
- Identify interpret analyze and address critical business issues questions and to develop use cases.
- Organize and create an environment that makes data and information accessible with appropriate channels of access controls.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to build a relationship of trust and play an advisory role in the use of data to improve performance and Universitywide strategy formulation.
- Develop and document clear understandable plans roadmaps and communication for business users technical staff and IT groups.
- Follow IT policies and standards for maintaining consistency and standards across SJSU campus.
- Be proactive in making recommendations and ensure users/departments have the most uptodate technological solutions to perform their jobs and serve the university community effectively.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- Advanced skills in analytical and holistic problemsolving project management effective communication and coordination of internal and external resources
- Ability to work effectively with faculty staff and senior administrators in areas other than technology to develop and implement appropriate uses of technology
- Advanced technical knowledge in IT systems and emerging technology trends and issues
- Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to address complex business questions
- Advanced knowledge with analytics tools big data technologies cloud computing environments relational database
- Advanced working knowledge in large ERP scale analytics optimization business intelligence and statistics for IT organizations
- Ability to identify key insights and built largescale data products that enhance the customer experience and improve operations processes
- Strong ability to provide guidance on emerging technologies to innovate and ensure the SJSU is wellpositioned in delivering analytic solutions
- Strong ability to deliver on highimpact analytics projects
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and skills working with relational databases like Oracle query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
- Expert knowledge in high level programming languages like: Python SQL Java and JavaScript
- Advanced knowledge in application architectures on public cloud platform such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or IBM Cloud Pak
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise data architecture ETL integration data warehousing techniques analytics/enduser reporting tool sets
- Advanced knowledge in Visualization tools like Google Data Studio Tableau Looker etc
- Knowledge building and optimizing big data data pipelines architectures and data sets
- Ability to build processes supporting data transformation data structures metadata dependency and workload management
- Advanced knowledge of Systems development life cycle methodologies (Agile and Waterfall) in order to develop effective systems
- Advanced knowledge of application development testing and deployment processes and tools
- Knowledge performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
- Knowledge with big data languages such as R Python/PySpark and familiarity with cloud architecture
- Advanced knowledge in data mining forecasting simulation and/or predictive modeling
- Advanced knowledge building BI environments with significant scale and scope
Required Qualifications
- A bachelors degree preferably in computer science or business or equivalent training and applied experience
- Five years of experience in business applications analysis design and programming for medium or large scale multiprogrammed computers
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters in Business Administration Computer Science or equivalent degree
- 3 years experience developing maintaining and collecting structured and unstructured data sets for analysis and reporting
- 3 years advanced analytics experience in support of business strategy
- 3 years working experience in implementing public cloud solutions
Compensation
Classification: Analyst/Programmer Expert
CSU Salary Range: $7371/month $14274/month
San Jos State University offers employees a comprehensive benefits package typically worth 3035 of your base salary. For more information on programs available please see the Employee Benefits Summary.
Application Procedure
Click Apply Now to complete the SJSU Online Employment Application and attach the following documents:
- Resume
- Letter of Interest
All applicants must apply within the specified application period: January 9 2025 through January 22 2025. This position is open until filled; however applications received after screening has begun will be considered at the discretion of the university.
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Additional Information
Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check) is required for employment. SJSU will issue a contingent offer of employment to the selected candidate which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was offered the position on a contingent basis.
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Equal Employment Statement
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