WorldStrides is the global leader in educational travel and experiential learning. The company was founded in 1967 to provide middle school travel programs to Washington, D.C. and has grown to provide a wide range of programs for more than half a million students annually to over 100 countries around the world. WorldStrides offers experiential learning programs in educational travel, performing arts, language immersion, career exploration, service-learning, study abroad, and sports. Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world – and themselves – in new ways.
Job Description:
The ETL Engineer develops, deploys, and maintains data stores for access by business users including marketing campaign specialists and business data analysts. The ETL Engineer is responsible for supporting and maintaining the data warehouse environment including SQL databases, scheduled jobs, and Python-based ETL processes. The ETL Engineer will be responsible for creating and maintaining data pipelines to support reporting needs and will ensure the quality and integrity of reporting data. The role requires attention to detail and quality. Key customers for the ETL Engineer will include data scientists, analysts, and marketing campaign specialists working in the domains of marketing, operations, customer insights, and finance.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the structuring and maintenance of data sets for production of reporting and analytics
- Build and optimize data pipelines to facilitate the extraction of data from multiple sources and delivery to multiple applications and teams
- Reduce waste and improve data flow. This involves continually striving to reduce wasted effort, identify gaps and correct them and improve data development and deployment processes.
- Acquire and update data from internal and external data providers
- Execute automated testing at every stage of a pipeline to increase productivity while reducing errors
- Create queries that allow data to be extracted and to streamline the data retrieval process
- Monitor processes to quickly identify and resolve or elevate issues, and identify areas for improvement
- Use automation to streamline data processing, automate manual processes, such as data extraction and testing.
- Adopt new solutions to produce data more efficiently and with fewer errors. This includes testing and adopting solutions and tools that adhere to the DataOps best practices.
- Correspond with team members and customers to understand business concepts, data requirements, and prioritization of development tasks
- Communicate, document, and collaborate with other data and BI team members to enhance the quality of data products.
- Ensure data security standards are applied across the data pipelines.
Qualifications:
- Experience in SQL, Excel, relational databases, database concepts, and database design.
- 2+ years' experience with Python
- Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to provide regular status updates proactively
- 3+ years' experience in BI development, data analysis, or data engineering
- BS/BA degree (preferably in a technical or research field)
Work Perks:
- Fun & driven environment.
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, life, accidental death and dismemberment, accident, critical illness, and disability insurance, FSA healthcare, FSA dependent care, HAS with employer contribution, and generous 401k match.
- 10 paid floating corporate holidays, 1 paid volunteer day & 25 PTO days to start – accrue up to 28 over 3 years, 4 mental health days, and 5 bereavement days.
- Tuition reimbursement up to five thousand, two hundred fifty dollars annually or one thousand dollars towards professional certification annually.
- Opportunities for paid and discounted travel.
- Flexible work schedule providing on-site, remote, and virtual office opportunities.
- Encouraged participation in our Employee Resource Groups and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion council.
- Fitness Center and café onsite at select locations.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Parental, Caregiver, and Disability leave.
- Team Member Discount Program.
WorldStrides, a global organization, is committed to educate and serve communities worldwide. Our commitment is fueled by the passion of our team members and partners to make experiential learning accessible, while also being socially, environmentally, and ethically responsible. Together, we accomplish this by investing in initiatives to promote inclusion, diversity, and sustainability.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, WorldStrides is committed to building a diverse workforce, supported by an environment that promotes inclusion and belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
WorldStrides will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, J-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire. Select seasonal roles may consider students on J-1 or F-1 visas.
Skills Required
- Experience in SQL, Excel, relational databases, database concepts, and database design.
- 2+ years' experience with Python
- 3+ years' experience in BI development, data analysis, or data engineering
- BS/BA degree (preferably in a technical or research field)
- Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
What We Do
WorldStrides provides educational travel and experiences to more than 530,000 students a year. Founded in 1967 by a middle school social studies teacher from Chicago, the company has since grown to become a leader in experiential learning for students of all ages throughout their lifetime learning journey. In addition to domestic and international travel and study abroad programs, WorldStrides offerings include performing arts, sports, language immersion, career exploration, and service-learning. Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world – and themselves – in new ways. Our global team is 1,500+ strong, united by a passion for what we do. We work with students, parents, and teachers, and behind the scenes too, to deliver experiences that transform lives. Let's get out there - together! Community Guidelines We are happy to address questions you may have, but in order to foster a vibrant and useful online community, we’ve outlined a few guidelines to be followed when posting on the WorldStrides and affiliated brands' social channels . Any comments that are in violation of the guidelines will be removed, and repeat offenders may be blocked. Comments will be removed if they contain: • Profane, inappropriate, threatening or offensive language; • Violations of copyright or intellectual property rights; • Purposefully untrue or misleading statements; • Comments that are meant to derail or hijack constructive conversations; • Personal information of community members or WorldStrides employees; • Posts that link to potentially harmful sites.
