Job Description:

THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you interested in working in a dynamic data and analytics center of excellence for a trusted brand that for 100 years has strived to encourage the intellectual and personal growth of all children?

Scholastic is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our Data and Analytics practice. The Engineer will be responsible for data architecture and pipeline design and must possess strong data modelling and query optimization skills. They will be building and maintaining data processing frameworks and will work closely with data science, visualization and analyst teams.

Scholastic works on state of the art, continually evolving technologies, including the AWS stack, Salesforce, Oracle Fusion and SAS. If you love solving challenging problems, want to be a part of a strong data driven culture and like to evolve with a rapidly changing environment, this role is for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build and maintain all facets of Data Pipelines for Data Engineering team.
• Lead the development of ETL processes to integrate data from a wide variety of sources including S3 objects, Kafka, REST APIs, SQL Server
• Refine and enhance the Python data management framework developed in-house
• Adhere to and improve the established standards for design, development, and migration
• Enhance the existing data centric CI/CD framework utilizing BitBucket and Jenkins
• Cultivate strong relationships with key business sponsors and other IT teams to collaboratively solve complex problems
• Ensure established standards are followed for code deployment between environments 
• Be a strong influence in architecture design sessions and perform code reviews
• Lead and mentor junior team members

WHO WE ARE

Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, a leading provider of core literacy curriculum and professional services, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning programs for pre-K to grade 12, classroom magazines and other products and services  that support children's learning both in school and at home. With operations in 14 international offices and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all children around the world through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom collections, school and public libraries, retail and online.  True to its mission of 100 years to encourage the personal and intellectual growth of all children beginning with literacy, the Company has earned a reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Some benefits that we offer:

•  100% vested of 401(k) Retirement Plan after 5 years employment

•  Up to 1M worth of supplemental Life Insurance

•  Tuition Reimbursement

•  Purchase Scholastic stock at a 15% discount

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

Qualifications

HOW YOU CAN FIT    (Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related Engineering field
• 5+ years of Data Engineering or Data Lake Architect experience on the AWS platform
• US citizen or permanent resident status required
• Required experience
  • Deep knowledge of AWS Services such as S3, EMR, Redshift, DataPipeline, RDS, DynamoDB, STEP functions, Lambda
  • Advanced SQL knowledge for Redshift
  • ETL process design and implementation on AWS
  • Jenkins, Bitbucket, Webhooks
  • Containerized workload management using Docker or Terraform
  • Streaming data processing (Kafka).

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EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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