Human Resources Data Engineer

DATA ENGINEER

Job Class Code: 8424

TITLE: Data Engineer

REPORTS TO: Superintendent Designee

SUPERVISES: N/A

JOB FUNCTION: Develops mission critical processes to ensure district compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and requirements; Creates and maintains requested student information system reports for school and district personnel; Leads efforts around data management, validation, storage, and collection; Increases efficient and consistent access to data by developing queries, functions, and stored procedures

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Uses version control systems and documentation to maintain and distribute source code.
• Maintains business rules and technical documentation for data systems.
• Leads processes to ingest student assessment data from vendors and ensure data integrity and validity in the student information system.
• Develops reports for district and school personnel from student information system.
• Manages processes and requirements to fulfill Civil Rights Data Collection reporting requirements.
• Develops, maintains, and extends data models to store, manage, and access data efficiently.
• Works with program offices, school leaders, and IT staff to identify, specify, and manage data collection requirements and processes.
• Develop queries, functions, and stored procedures to ensure consistent and efficient data access for team members.
• Maintains knowledge of current data storage, management, and access technologies.
• Selects appropriate technologies for data storage, maintenance, and application development.
• Maintains current understanding of FERPA, HIPPA, and any/all other regulatory requirements regarding the protection of individually identifiable data.
• Develops and maintains reports in Business Intelligence platform.
• Implements Software Development Life Cycle methodologies as appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• Agile SDLC methodology.
• Developing queries, functions, and stored procedures in SQL-based relational database management systems.
• Database performance tuning.
• Data system architectures, including the use of NoSQL technologies.
• Logical and physical data modeling.
• Business Intelligence and reporting tools.
• Git and/or GitHub/GitLab.
• Data governance.
• Use of SQL for data retrieval.
• Experience with C#, PHP, and Java (preferred)

ABILITY TO:

• Learn federal, state, and local regulatory reporting requirements for school and district accountability, assessment, and special programs.
• Learn new programming languages/techniques, computing skills, software lifecycle development, and analytical methods to develop robust, efficient, and effective workflows.
• Determine best tools and technologies to use for data management and storage.
• Help business owners define business rules and processes used to manage the data systems.
• Effectively plan workflows to meet project deadlines and milestones.
• Train others in the District in area of expertise.
• Communicate in writing and verbally to all stakeholder groups.
• Support publication of research with team members.
• Present work at professional conferences with other team members or independently.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and demonstrated experience using SQL for data management and reporting. (Required)
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a program that included significant training in information systems, data architecture, data engineering, information technology, or computer science. (Preferred)

CONTACT PPERSON: Jennifer Dyar (jennifer.dyar@fayette.kyschools.us)