Data Engineer

About Niche

Niche is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply.

Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally.

About The Role

We are looking for a skilled Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering team. You’ll build and support data pipelines that can handle the volume and complexity of data while ensuring scale, data accuracy, availability, observability, security, and optimum performance. You’ll be developing and maintaining data warehouse tables, views, and models, for consumption by analysts and downstream applications. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as we’re building the next generation of our data platform, and engineering capabilities. You’ll be reporting to the Head of Data Engineering.

What You Will Do

During the First Month:

• Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings
• Build relationships with data engineering  team members, understand the day to day operating model, and stakeholders that we interact with on a daily basis
• Start to learn about our data platform infrastructure, data pipelines, source systems, and inter-dependencies
• Start participating in standups, planning, and retrospective meetings

Within 3 Months:

• Participate in periodic data engineering activities, e.g. monthly insights reporting, profile data updates, etc
• Start delivering on assigned data engineering tasks to support our day to day, and roadmap
• Start troubleshooting production issues, and participating in on-call activities
• Identify areas for improving data engineering processes, and share with the team

Within 6 Months:

• Contribute consistently towards building our data platform, which includes data pipelines, and data warehouse layers
• Start to independently own workstreams whether it is periodic data engineering activities, or work items in support of our roadmap
• Deepen your understanding, and build subject matter expertise of our data & ecosystem

Within 12 Months:

• Your contributions have led to us making significant progress in implementing the data platform strategy, and key data …