Analytics Engineering Manager

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

We are looking for a hardworking and passionate Analytics Engineering Manager who wants to be a leader within a technology team where every engineer is responsible for the quality of our product and happiness of our students and teachers.

What You’ll Do

Managing and contributing to our data analytics teams that ingest, transform, model, and aggregate the data that empowers teams across Amplify and our customers to tell stories with their data. You will be working with data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers to provide clean, accurate, reliable models and metrics for our products and internal business partners while leading a team of talented analytics engineers. You will also lead the data model development and standards within Amplify and educational industry in order to deliver quality and consistent solutions.

• Foster a collaborative environment to ensure the team delivers clean, accurate, and reliable models and metrics for both internal and external stakeholders while coaching, mentoring, and providing guidance as needed

• Oversee all aspects of team management, including the full employee life cycle, and budgeting to ensure the team's success and alignment with company goals, while working crossfunctionally with other departments

• Participate in project and capacity planning for upcoming initiatives, working closely with cross-functional teams to allocate resources effectively and meet project deadlines.

• Build data models which drive the design cycle for fun and compelling apps, helping teachers and admins understand their students by building modular data models.

• Respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights by making inquisitive choices in tech stack, database design, masking policies, and encryption.

•  Help school principals understand how teachers are teaching and how students are learning by building data warehouse schemas and SQL transforms with CTEs, window functions, and pivots.

•  Analyze performance while removing bugs using tools such as Fivetran, Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, SQL, Python, Looker and Tableau.

•  Build cohesive, common data marts from sources like Salesforce, Netsuite and HubSpot to support the Marketing and Sales teams.

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Building well-tested and documented ELT data pipelines for both full and incremental dbt models to funnel into a fact and dimensional data mart.

• Work closely with sales on logistics pipeline forecasting and sales pipeline tracking to help focus our sales teams in the right areas for the biggest impact.

• Align with finance on making sure we have well audited data inline with established financial best practices.

• Engineer novel dataset which expresses a student's progress and performance through an adaptive learning experience which allows for flexible comparison across students and deep analysis of individual students.

• Work with data science to measure the impact of design changes on an administrator reporting application.

• Contributing to leading industry data standards, such as Caliper Analytics, EdFi, or xAPI

• Crafting slowly changing dimensional models that take into account the nuances of K-12 education such as School Year changes and students moving schools or classes.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of professional software development or data engineering experience

• Familiarity leading teams within an agile product development environment.

• Proven examples of establishing and driving adoption of best practices in data analytics.

• Expertise in computer, data, and analytics engineering.

• Expertise in SQL and its use in code-based ETL frameworks preferably dbt with a focus on reuse and efficiency.

• Expertise in ETL/ELT pipelines, analytical data modeling, aggregations, and metrics.

• Proven ability to architect and implement efficient data models and optimize high throughput data pipelines.

• Expertise with analytical modeling architectures, including the Kimball design.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills Experienced in writing engineering training documentation.

• Proven technical leadership in project delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in a development language such as Python.

• Familiarity with metadata management tools such as Atlan.

• Building dashboards, reports, and models in business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Looker.

• Expertise in: 

  • Storage: Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB) and Postgres

  • ETL/ELT: Airflow, dbt, Matillion, Fivetran

  • BI: Looker, Tableau 

• Experience with tools we don’t use, but should consider using.

• Passion and talent for teaching fellow engineers and non-engineers.

• Passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, and Stack Overflow.

• Experience in education or ed-tech preferred

What we offer:
Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. 

Amplify is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.

If selected, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may also be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination or submit to enhanced background screening, including fingerprints.