Job Summary:
Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces innovative learning solutions for K-12 learners. The Senior Software Developer (Data) will work closely with product management to build effective products, perform research and analysis, and mentor team members while contributing as a hands-on developer.
Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the product management team to ensure we're building the best products.
• Ability to comprehend business requirements and be able to map them to technical data requirements.
• Perform research, analysis, design and implementation and provide effective solutions for short term and long term needs
• Support and migrate existing systems to new platforms
• Mentor other team members and developers.
• Work in a team environment and share knowledge.
• Evaluate new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into the platform.
• Contributes as a hands-on software developer.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, with strong fundamentals and problem solving skills.
• 6+ years of experience in architecture, design, analysis, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable database services and components.
• 4+ years experience with transactional and NOSQL platforms including Redshift, Big Query, mySQL, PostGres, Mongo and DocumentDB.
• At least 2 years of experience in Senior role mentoring developers
• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming / Analysis and Design concepts, Design Patterns, and Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience in a continuous integration process, employing a CI server, automated unit testing and deployment
• Strong experience with Git and knowledge on using Github CoPilot
• Understanding of Cloud Architecture - AWS is mandatory
• Design, develop, and test ELT processes per business requirements, following the development standards and best practices as well as participate in code peer reviews to ensure ELT applications and code process comply with industry best practices
• Strong knowledge and experience in data modeling & design with relational and NoSQL DBs
• Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning in various DB environments
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems in cloud env (AWS)
• Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy.
Preferred:
• Knowledge on DBT core for ELT processing
• Knowledge on AWS services like Bedrock, Sagemaker, Amazon Glue
Company:
Built upon a 130-year history, Savvas is recognized as an industry leader and innovator in education. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Paramus, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.