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Posted: 25-May-22
Location: Ithaca, New York
Salary: Open
Internal Number: WDR-00031491
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Data Engineer
Prog Analyst III
Research Administration Information Services
The Information Services team is looking for talented and creative individuals to join us in our quest to make it easier for the Cornell research community to manage their research. We consider our environment to be its own research laboratory where team members are encouraged to voice new ideas and try new approaches. We're early adopters in the use of new technologies that can help us to automate development and deployment of the application and data products we build or integrate with. There's no doubt that you'll be able to learn and grow as part of our team. We have opportunities for advancement in our group and within the university. The ability to take classes or pursue a degree through our employee degree program is also available and encouraged. Cornell benefits are hard to beat, including a contribution of 10% of your salary to your retirement plan pre-tax.
The Data Engineer is an important member of the Information Services team, responsible for analyzing and making sense of our data, developing useful reports, and engineering a sustainable underlying data infrastructure. Some time is spent working on the top of the stack, keeping the front-end of our data web apps up-to-date as well as working together with the data team on DevOps tasks to automate deployment and monitoring. The position works together with and takes direction from the Lead Data Engineer.
What You Will Do:
- Work with our Product Managers and customers to understand business needs and system requirements
- Write code, e.g. Python for data, Ruby and Ember.js for web apps, Terraform for DevOps
- Review code from other data team members through pull requests
- Analyze data and develop reports, dashboards, APIs and other data products
- Work with the Lead Data Engineer to develop and maintain our data infrastructure that connects the data products we create and the applications and data sources we integrate with
- Update our data web apps and components, including Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, and D3.js
- Work on infrastructure design, automation, and maintenance in cloud and on-premises hosting environments (current setup - Terraform: Infrastructure-as-code, CodeBuild: Build tools, Docker/ECS/ECR: containerization, Fargate: Serverless tasks, CloudWatch/Prometheus: Monitor/Log/Trigger, S3/RDS: Storage).
- Troubleshoot potential data issues reported with production reporting systems and integrations
- Create and test data visualizations to aid understanding of research administration data
What You Will Need:
- 2 or more years working in a data analyst, data engineer, or other data science role
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 2 or more years of experience with:
- SQL and relational databases
- Python data science ecosystem (Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, etc.)t
- Data visualization using consumer tools, e.g. Tableau
- Working as part of a team managing data products and applications through the full development cycle w/development and production environments
- Github best practices, e.g. continuous integration, branch management, pull requests
- Non-traditional/NoSQL data formats (json, xml, csv)
- 1 or more years of experience with:
- DevOps, specifically AWS, Terraform, and Docker
- Front-end development with Ruby on Rails (use of Sinatra preferred)
- Front-end development with .js frameworks, specifically with Ember, D3
- Understanding of popular data warehouse data structures (e.g., star, snowflake)
- Meticulous attention to detail and documentation habits
- Excellent communication and organization skills
What We Prefer:
- Bachelor's degree or higher with a concentration in a quantitative field such as finance, quantitative marketing, engineering, mathematics/statistics
- Experience with Tableau
- Experience with Salesforce
- Experience in higher education
- Experience with research administration
- Understanding of finance and accounting concepts and data
What we offer:
- The opportunity to work with a dynamic group of people in a stable organization where employee development is promoted.
- A broad set of competitive benefits under the Cornell Endowed program, including educational opportunities, access to virtual wellness programs, health care options, 3 weeks of paid vacation, 13 paid holidays, and superior retirement contributions. https://hr.cornell.edu/benefits-pay
- The potential to work in Ithaca (with affordable housing and highly ranked public schools) or remotely from a location of your choice within the United States.
The New York Convenience of employer guidelines require New York State individual tax reporting and withholdings for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working temporarily outside New York State.
For full consideration, please attach a cover letter and resume with your application.
Visa sponsorship not available for this position.
University Job Title:
Prog Analyst III
Job Family:
Information Technology
Level:
F
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Company:
Endowed
Contact Name:
Kristie Devine
Number of Openings:
1
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