We believe that investing in people is the most powerful way to drive success—for individuals and organizations alike.
As a public benefit corporation, we partner with leading employers to unlock opportunities for their employees, providing access to top-tier education programs that align with their employees’ career goals and the company’s business goals.
Our mission goes beyond skill-building; we're here to empower our partners’ employees to advance their careers, elevate their expertise, and achieve meaningful personal and professional growth.
No matter the team you’re on, our dedication to the success of our partners and their employees is what drives us. If you're passionate about making a difference and driving educational and professional advancement, InStride is the place for you.
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What we're looking for:
InStride is seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to join our growing Data Analytics team. As an Analytics Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and optimizing the dimensional data models in Databricks. This role reports to the Director, Data Analytics and will work closely with business leaders, analysts, and data engineers to design and implement robust, scalable data structures that support our BI tools and deliver meaningful insights.
Your work will include ingesting data from a variety of sources, many of which are not traditional application data sources. You will also need a deep understanding of data security, data modeling, Python, SQL, and BI tools like Tableau, as well as expertise translating a complex business model to actionable data and insights.
Skills we’d love to see you show off:
- Dimensional Data Modeling: Design, build, and optimize the gold layer in Databricks, creating dimensional models that support business reporting and analytics. Ensure these models are scalable, performant, and aligned with the company’s data strategy.
- Data Ingestion & Integration: Ingest data from various sources, including non-application data sources, using SQL and Python to clean, transform, and load data. Data pipelines should be reliable, efficient, and adhere to best practices for data security and governance.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with business leaders, analysts, and data engineers to understand data requirements, define key business metrics, and develop data models that meet the needs of various stakeholders.
- Business Insights Support: Build and maintain data models and Tableau dashboards, enabling stakeholders to self-serve insights and make data-driven decisions.
- Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize ETL processes and data models for performance, ensuring timely access to key data sets and insights.
- Documentation & Best Practices: Maintain comprehensive documentation of data models, pipelines, and business rules. Use GitHub for version control and to back up all code, ensuring proper documentation, collaboration, and traceability. Promote best practices across the team to ensure consistent, high-quality output and streamline collaboration.
- Support Advanced Analytics: Collaborate with data analysts and engineers to enable more advanced analytics use cases, such as predictive modeling or trend analysis.
Who you are:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a highly technical analytics role, where you worked extensively with data modeling and business intelligence tools.
- 5+ years of experience working in a fast-paced environment.
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the challenge of working independently on complex tasks while proactively seeking feedback and improvement.
- You’re passionate about education and driven to make learning more accessible. If you have prior experience in edtech or education, that’s a big plus!
- You have a keen understanding of business logic and can quickly grasp complex relationships between data and business operations.
- You are a team player who excels at working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, advising them on best practices and how to best leverage data to drive decisions.
- You have a proactive approach, constantly seeking out new ways to improve processes, tools, and models for the benefit of the entire organization.
How you will create impact:
- You will create a single source of truth across the company by building and maintaining a centralized data reporting layer that supports all business functions, including marketing, sales, finance, and product.
- Your work will enable the creation of dynamic, data-driven Tableau dashboards that provide key stakeholders with the insights they need to drive business decisions.
- You will help ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across the organization, which will foster greater trust in the data used for decision-making.
- You’ll be key in ensuring that the company’s data infrastructure scales efficiently as it grows, building data models that are not only accurate but also scalable and future-proof.
Target base compensation amount for this role outlined below. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts shown below.
$130,000—$150,000 USD
We are looking for someone who is not only technically skilled, but also enthusiastic about making a meaningful impact. If this description resonates with you, we're excited about the possibility of having you on our team. As a skills-driven employer, we encourage you to apply if there is a skill-fit, even in the absence of years of experience.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At InStride we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this role!
Benefits @ InStride
As an organization that champions investing in people, it’s critical we walk the talk. That’s why InStride employees are eligible to enroll in 2,800+ online certificate and degree programs through our Step Forward program. Unlike traditional tuition reimbursement programs, InStride covers your tuition upfront, regardless of your course of study, degree type, or school - eligible to employees starting Day 1.
This role is also eligible for the following benefits:
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid family leave
- Best-in-class health care benefits
- And more!
InStride Diversity and Inclusion Statement
At InStride, we foster a culture of belonging, we support authenticity and intersectionality, and we embrace and appreciate our differences. We do this by building a diverse pipeline of talent and ensuring equitable access to opportunities, information and leadership. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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About InStride
InStride is a tech-enabled services company that is pioneering new approaches to workforce education solutions with a mission of driving meaningful social and business outcomes by unlocking access to life-changing education. In collaboration with quality academic institutions, we enable employers to provide career-aligned, debt-free education through a personalized, digital platform and a consultative service model. To learn more, visit: https://www.instride.com/
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InStride drives meaningful social and business outcomes by unlocking access to life-changing education in collaboration with top academic institutions. Together, we enable employers to provide career-aligned, debt-free education through a personalized, digital platform and a consultative service model.
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InStriders are a group of intelligent, hard-working individuals from diverse backgrounds who have chosen to lead a movement. Our culture is built around teamwork, transparency and tenacity. We value constructive feedback, accountability and high speed as the default setting.
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