Job Description

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

In our U.S. locations, we operate on a hybrid work model with a four-day in-office schedule, Monday–Thursday. This in-office time fosters creativity, innovation, communication, and stronger team relationships, supporting both individual and organizational success.

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Job Description

Adtalem is a data driven organization. The Data Engineering team builds data solutions that powers strategic and tactical business decisions and supports the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence operations. By implementing the data platform, data pipelines and data governance policies this team provides the basis for decision-making in Adtalem. Adtalem is looking for a Lead Data Engineer who is a technical powerhouse who can scale our data platform to meet ever growing business needs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various business, IT, Analytics and Data Science groups to lead business requirement discussion and translate them into scalable, high performance data solutions

• Design for all things Data Platform, from data modeling to data ingestion pipelines, transformation processes, the storage optimization, delivery, and discoverability of high quality datasets

• Collaborate in producing data platform architecture, development standards and best practices, documenting and socializing with wider group in Data Engineering

• Develop data ingestion processes using available tools and technologies, complex SQLs/programs to transform to target data model, build test plan, execute testing and deploy across environments

• Optimize data and processing pipelines for scalability, reliability and fault-tolerance by using data volume, velocity and variety metrics

• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted data engineering situations requiring understanding of software package options and programming language and compliance requirements that influence and lead Technology to meet deliverables and drive organizational change

• Design CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous deployment and delivery of our data products.

• Ensure quality of critical data elements, prepare data quality remediation plans and collaborate with business and system owners to fix the quality issues at its root.

• Create design documents, Source to Target Mapping documents and any supporting documents needed for deployment/migration. Capture, store and socialize data lineage and operational metadata

• Ensure that the data pipelines are stable, secure, maintainable and highly available. Support team during troubleshooting & debugging defects & bug fixes, business requests, environment migrations & other ad hoc requests

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to communicate EDW incidents/problems and manage their expectations

• Develop REST APIs to expose data to other teams within the company.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior data engineers promoting knowledge sharing across the team

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related technical field.
• Master's Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related technical field.
• 10+ years experience in data engineering solutions such as data platforms, ingestion, data management, or publication/analytics.
• 4+ years experience in Google cloud with services like BigQuery, Composer, GCS, DataStream, Dataflows.
• Should have expert level understanding of Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Cloud Data Platform, ETL (FiveTran), Data Quality, Data Mapping etc.
• Hands on experience working in GCP services like Big Query, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage (GCS), cloud function, cloud dataflow, Pub/sub, Cloud Shell, GSUTIL, Big Query, Data Proc
• Experience working with Airflow as workflow management tools and build operators to connect, extract and ingest data as needed
• Expert knowledge on SQL and Python programming. Experience in tuning queries for performance and scalability
• Experience in Real Time Data ingestion using GCP PubSub, Kafka, Spark or similar
• Should be self-sufficient and able to independently design and develop the data model, data processing pipelines, and CI/CD processes based on the established standards and methodology
• Should have working experience on any DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, etc.
• Have proven experience leading incremental execution following the agile methodology and sprint planning
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to recognize and comprehend complex data issues affecting the business environment
• Think strategically. Excellent organizational, prioritization and analytical abilities

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $96404.1 and $169021.85. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:

 

 

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
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  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

 

 

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

 

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, Work experience placement, Flexible hours,

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