Data Engineer- Analytics Products

Every day, we’re doing the work to ensure that 43,000+ public charter school students, families, and communities receive a quality education that makes them feel valued and prepared for lifelong learning, fulfilling careers, and economic security. DC PCSB is an independent agency of the District of Columbia government. Our mission, vision, values, and work are rooted in the principle of ensuring that every DC student has access to a quality education.

About the role

The Data Engineer is a core member of DC PCSB’s Analytics Products team, responsible for building and maintaining the data infrastructure that supports agency reporting, accountability calculations, Enterprise Intelligence, and public-facing analytics products. You will design, implement, and maintain the data pipelines, warehouse models, orchestration workflows, and Data Mart structures that allow PCSB staff, school leaders, and public stakeholders to access reliable, governed, and well-documented data. This role combines traditional data-engineering expertise — pipelines, orchestration, warehousing, and cloud infrastructure — with close collaboration across Analytics Engineers, Product Managers, and agency program teams. You will help ensure that PCSB’s data architecture supports scalability, auditability, transparency, and long-term maintainability, while maintaining compliance with PCSB’s Data Governance and REDI commitments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Airflow, SQL, and Python to support analytical workflows, reporting products, and accountability calculations
• Maintain and improve PCSB’s Data Warehouse architecture, including data models, schemas, dependencies, and documentation
• Support the development and reliability of the Data Mart, ensuring that governed, non-PII data are structured for reporting (star schemas), analysis, and Enterprise Intelligence use cases
• Develop and maintain orchestration workflows in Airflow that support recurring data submissions, validation processes, report production, and downstream analytics products
• Implement schema validation and transformation logic to ensure submitted and processed data conform to PCSB standards and Data Mart models
• Monitor and resolve Airflow failures, pipeline errors, and data quality issues in collaboration with Analytics Engineers and Product Managers
• Support accountability-related data infrastructure, including ASPIRE, state assessment reporting, school performance reporting, and potential concurrent accountability calculation frameworks
• Manage cloud-based data infrastructure using AWS RDS, S3, IAM, and related services
• Contribute to a CI/CD environment by writing tests, performing peer code reviews, and ensuring reliable deployment of data pipelines and infrastructure changes
• Collaborate with Analytics Engineers and Product Managers to translate user stories, reporting needs, and policy requirements into reliable data models and automated workflows
• Support PCSB’s Data Governance by maintaining data quality, privacy, transparency, and auditability across systems
• Contribute to the Data Team Handbook and participate in Agile rituals, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, to improve team processes

Requirements

• At least five (5) years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, database development, or a closely related technical role, including substantial experience using SQL and Python in a production or recurring-workflow environment
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines that move data from source systems into databases, data warehouses, Data Marts, reporting layers, or analytics products, including handling source-system inconsistencies and implementing validation steps
• Experience designing, maintaining, or improving database, warehouse, or analytics data models, with understanding of table grain, keys, relationships, dependencies, versioning, and downstream reporting use cases
• Experience creating governed, report-ready datasets, views, tables, or semantic models for reporting and analysis, with familiarity in dimensional modeling, star schemas, standardized business definitions, or non-PII reporting layers
• Experience developing, maintaining, or troubleshooting scheduled data workflows using Airflow or comparable orchestration tools, including monitoring workflows, diagnosing failures, and understanding downstream impacts
• Experience writing and optimizing SQL for production data systems, with understanding of query performance, joins, indexing, migrations, data volume, and downstream effects on reporting products
• Experience using cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows to support data pipelines, databases, warehouses, or analytics products, with familiarity in AWS services such as RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, or ECS, and tools like Git, CI/CD workflows, Docker, or infrastructure-as-code practices
• Experience implementing data-quality checks, documentation, lineage, privacy protections, access controls, or auditability practices within data pipelines or warehouse models, particularly in education, public-sector, regulated, or high-stakes reporting contexts
• Experience writing maintainable, tested, and documented code using version control, participating in peer review, improving existing codebases, and supporting long-term maintainability
• Experience working with analysts, Analytics Engineers, Product Managers, program staff, or other non-engineering partners to translate reporting, accountability, or business needs into reliable data infrastructure
• Commitment to DC PCSB’s mission, values, and REDI principles, including building transparent, reliable, and equitable data systems that support public education oversight

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits plan covering 100% of the employee’s insurance premium
• Potential eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program for employees of government or not-for-profit organizations
• Generous telecommuting policy

Pay

The salary for this role is $83,520.00–$103,172.00.