A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As an engineering team member at Amplify, you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology. 

Who are You?

You enjoy finding the simplest, most elegant solution for complex data problems.  You see the potential for data to drive the organization- but only if the data is reliable!  You will work on a problem until you are sure the customer’s needs are met.  You enjoy getting deeply immersed in the investigative process to find the broken link in a chain of events.  You know that to stick with a tough job or problem, you also have to find some way to have fun with it.  You appreciate the contributions of highly engaged and skilled team members.

What You’ll Do:

The Business Data team centralizes, cleans and prepares the company’s internal business data in our data warehouse (Snowflake) to facilitate business decision-making.  The Business Data team maintains Business Intelligence tools (Tableau, potentially Looker) that facilitate quicker and automated reporting and analysis.  The team also provides support (documentation, training, coaching) for data analysts in key departments (Marketing, Operations, Customer Support, etc) to ensure that internal analysts are increasingly self-sufficient.  Your role within Business Data will be 50% hand-on analysis and 50% team management.  You will:

• Make it easier for key departments to make informed business decisions by centralizing data.  You will do this via requirements analysis and data modelling:

  • Translating  business needs of reporting stakeholders into data model and data field requirements for data warehouse developers

  • Evaluating business data problems and propose multiple potential solutions

  • Understanding the full pipeline of business data from raw data capture through reporting and assess the impact of changes to the pipeline

• Make future work more predictable.  You will do this via Team & Project Management:

  • Managing data warehouse developers who ingest and organize data

  • Managing the prioritization, critical path plan, risk and status of data warehouse development

  • Creating  process models, specifications, diagrams, and other documentation as needed to support stakeholder and developer conversations

  • Using elements of Agile, Kanban and Waterfall project management as appropriate

• Ensure the business is making informed decisions based on high quality data.  You will do this via Quality Assurance:

  • Performing extensive quality assurance tests (via SQL or Tableau) for the data warehouse development and reporting datasets

  • Owning responsibility for overall accuracy of data quality of business data in the datawarehouse and BI pipeline

  • Collaborating  with Product Owners, Analysts and Managers to surface, resolve and communicate data quality and data governance issues.  Includes managing cross-team solutions to data quality issues.

  • Maintaining ad hoc datasets for BI reporting 

• Ensure that analysts can easily access the data they need.  You will do this via User Training and Support

  • Maintaining the data dictionary for users

  • Documenting additions and changes to the data pipeline

  • Providing new user onboard training for Tableau and how to access the data warehouse

Example Projects You Might Work On:

• Preparing NetSuite data in the data warehouse for end-user analysis

• Joining data across several systems (NetSuite, Salesforce) to provide a life-cycle view of the products purchased by customers

• Providing solutions to key data governance issues (such as standardizing business definitions, finding relevant data) that will expand our capacity to do advanced reporting and analysis

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years related work experience (with an emphasis on analysis, data cleaning/reporting and small team/project management)

• 2+ years experience managing a small team (~4 people) and/or a small project

• Experience examining underlying details, cleaning and preparing data for reports 

• Experience with basic SQL querying

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 or more years as a Tableau Creator (or advanced SQL experience)

• Able to work independently, with a proactive, risk-mitigation approach

• Excellent analytical, and flexible problem-solving skills

• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

• Experience managing a project in an Agile environment

• Familiarity with Netsuite and/or Salesforce data

• Familiarity with Looker

• Experience as a Data Architect

• Experience with Quality Assurance

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. 

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.