Senior Application Specialist I

The Professional Services team plans, guides, and delivers client projects, all with the aim to meet timeline and budget expectations and achieve organizational goals. This is a Customer-facing project implementation role.  Candidate must have required skills and experience for defining and performing complex integration development work, in addition to strong communication and organizational leadership skills to act as the overall Tech Lead for assigned projects.

Team Overview

The Services team works closely together to set PowerSchool customers up for ongoing success through post-implementation support, troubleshooting, consultation on system setup options, and training on features and functionality. The team offers cross-portfolio support, all while meeting organizational objectives for revenue, utilization, and customer satisfaction.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

• Implement ETL processes that populate a data warehouse using star schemas from a variety of data sources
• Design and develop SQL Server stored procedures, functions, views and triggers to be used during the ETL process
• Design and develop Snowflake customizations within the product framework
• Participates in the requirements gathering process and assists with designing the business process dimensional models
• Work with data providers to fill data gaps and/or to adjust source-system data structures to facilitate analysis and integration with other company data
• Perform data profiling and source to target mappings
• Perform analysis on source data to determine the feasibility of using this data to solve business needs
• Write scripts for automated testing of data in the target facts and dimensions
• Capture audit information during all phases of the ETL process
• Write and maintain documentation of the ETL processes via process flow diagrams
• Act as the customer-facing PowerSchool technical lead for assigned projects. Provide PowerSchool technical solution expertise and guidance for assigned projects and customers, and lead and coordinate the delivery of technical integrations, customizations, data validation, and system QA together with other assigned PowerSchool team members

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or STEM majors, or equivalent years of equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in a similar scope role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with relational database design/modeling
• Experience interfacing with business users and gathering and understanding their requirements
• SQL coding/querying skills in SQL Server and/or MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, SnowFlake
• Experience in an Agile environment

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool celebrates 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.
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