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OVERVIEW:

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Strategy & Execution, the Principal Data Engineering will act as a corporate data steward and resident expert in data availability, logical organization and relationships between data elements and business practices.

The Principal Data Engineering will be responsible for supporting Skillsoft strategic studies by ensuring data hygiene processes are followed by business partners, data assets are available and ready for analysis and by leading the development of deep data-driven analyses.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive the advancement of Enterprise data infrastructure by designing and implementing the underlying logic and structure for how data is set up, cleansed, and ultimately stored for organizational usage
• Developing a pragmatic and practical Knowledge Management strategy to support Skillsoft’s analytical strategy across a wide variety of business areas.
• Build robust systems and reusable code modules to solve problems across the team and organization with an eye on the long-term maintenance and support of the application
• Work with the latest open-source tools, libraries, platforms, and languages to build data products enabling other analysts to explore and interact with large and complex data sets
• Partner with Product Owners and cross functional teams in a collaborative and agile environment
• Collaborate across the enterprise to enable and share best practices and reusable and scalable tools and code for our analyst community
• Champion the standardization of processes that generate data elements used in analysis and maintain document on lineage and definitions of data elements to support consistent usage in analysis.
• Establish forward looking Data and technology objectives and developing the strategies and actions for the team to achieve them
• Manage a small team through project deliveries, mentor other engineers and develop technical knowledge and skills to keep the enterprise on the cutting edge of technology
• Design rich data visualizations and interactive tools and solutions to communicate complex ideas to customers and company leaders
• Evangelize Enterprise Data Strategy & Execution Team mission and identify opportunities to influence decision making with supporting data & analysis.
• Identify opportunities for additional data resources that support Enterprise Data Strategy & Execution Team strategic objectives

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Data Engineering, Information Technology, CIS, CS, or related field or experience
• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering/Data Management space and working with enterprise level production data warehouses.
• 3+ years of experience in building cloud data applications (data lake, cloud data warehouse, cloud analytical servers.) & Deep understanding of cloud computing (Azure preferred)
• 3+ years’ experience with a data engineering/analysis programming language (e.g., Python, R, Spark etc.)
• 3+ years of proven SQL Server experience building and supporting Data Warehouse structures and supporting end user reporting tools such as Tableau/Power BI/SSRS
• Highly proficient in data architecture and conceptual, logical and physical data modeling
• Experience in setting data design/architecture standards and best practices, leading forums to review initiatives and ensure adherence to the guidelines.
• Established experience delivering information management solutions to large numbers of end users.
• Experience with technology stacks available for Metadata Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM, Lineage, Data Catalog etc.
• Demonstrable experience in working cross functionally across an enterprise organization to develop data architectures to facilitate business analytics.
• Ability to work and potentially lead in an Agile methodology environment.
• Experience and interest in cloud migration/journey to the cloud for data platforms and landscape
• Strong business acumen, analytical skills, and technical abilities
• Practical problem-solving skills and ability to move complex projects forward.
• Experience with CRM (Salesforce) & ERP (Peoplesoft) systems data

OUR VALUES:

WE ARE PASSIONATELY COMMITTED TO LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, AND SUCCESS. WE EMBRACE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS AND EACH OTHER AS:

• ONE TEAM
• OPEN AND RESPECTFUL
• CURIOUS
• AGILE
• TRUE

Our Values

We are passionately committed to leadership, learning, and success. We embrace every opportunity to serve our customers and each other as: one team, open and respectful, curious, and agile.

MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:

Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.

Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. 
If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!

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