Lead Engineer and Data Engineering Specialist

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

This position, under the general direction of the Director or Vice President, Software Engineering, will be responsible for technical and development support for our award-winning K-12 software. This role will use their expert level knowledge to implement, code, build, and test new features, maintain existing features, and develop reports that will include components, data models, customization, and reporting features for our products. This position will gather and refine requirements, develop designs, implement, test and document solutions to produce the highest quality product and customer satisfaction. Additionally, this position will mentor, coach, and answer questions for fellow employees.

Description

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• • Implement data ingestion software features and products following best practices such as authoring of unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms.
  • Provide technical leadership building Platform Services that will standardize DevOps Practices
  • Design and development of software engineering strategies
  • Investigate and resolve issues following best practices such as authoring or updating unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms.
  • Analyze performance and develop improvements to performance.
  • Assist and analyze security best practices.
  • Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality.
  • Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation, and execution of technical solutions.
  • Provide the team with direction on technological changes.
  • Partner with vendors and the tech community on implementing solutions to bugs and code upgrades.
  • Mentor and coach employees, first level response for employee questions, and lead team meetings.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technologies required, or equivalent experience;

• 10+ years' experience in software engineer role
• Strong experience with Snowflake
• Experience with Fivetran and Qlik Replicate
• Strong Experience with data replication and data ingestion
• Strong understanding of data governance
• Expert experience defining CI/CD pipelines within AWS
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent ability to work with current software design principles and concepts such as patterns, algorithms, data structures, SOA, n-tier architecture
• Excellent ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions
• Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment
• Ability to provide accurate and reliable estimate
• Willingness to work in a fast paced environment.

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accomodations@powerschool.com.