Senior Software Developer (Data)

Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content.

Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today's classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student.

Our award-winning, high-quality instructional materials span every grade level and discipline, from evidence-based, standards-aligned core curricula and supplemental and intervention programs to state-of-the-art assessment tools and the industry's most innovative portfolio of college and career readiness solutions - all designed to meet the needs of every learner.

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.

Minimum qualifications

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.

Nice to haves

Knowledge on DBT core for ELT processing

Knowledge on AWS services like Bedrock, Sagemaker, Amazon Glue

Savvas Learning Company provides access to a benefits experience created to offer our employees choice, flexibility, and the opportunity to save money for the future. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, tax-advantaged accounts, pharmacy, life insurance, disability insurance, matching 401(k), and paid time off. Our benefits are part of a total package that is carefully designed to support the total well-being of our employees.

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