Data Integration Engineer

About the role

The Data Integration Engineer is responsible for the development, implementation, and support of secure data integrations, migrations, and ETL/ELT pipelines across the university's ERP, student information system, and data warehouse. This role is a key member of the Application Services team, driving campus-wide data interoperability and growth of the Workday ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Analyze new systems and work with business and technical teams to develop functional and technical requirements to integrate them with the data warehouse.
• Develop and execute data migration solutions that ensure the new systems contain the data necessary to enable proper function and provide the historical data necessary to meet the needs of the business.
• Build and maintain solutions that use ETL/ELT tools, pre-built application data migration tools and utilities, and batch upload scripts using secure file transfer methods.
• Support the migration of business data associated with new application implementations, consolidations, and business process improvements through project participation, data analysis and troubleshooting, and end-to-end execution of data load processes.
• Manipulate and transform large data sets in a database to effectively troubleshoot issues and conduct data analysis.
• Analyze new systems and work with business and technical teams to develop functional and technical requirements to integrate them with existing systems.
• Develop and maintain data integrations and components, utilizing pre-built application data integration connectors, internal and external API-based integrations, and batch upload integrations using secure file transfer methods.
• Determine and design changes to existing system integrations that improve performance or enhance operations as driven by business needs.
• Ensure data structures and integration data flows are well documented and facilitate processes and procedures to ensure documentation is comprehensive and kept up to date as support and change requirements evolve.
• Monitor the movement of data between systems and data stores, maintaining the integrity of data, providing for required transformations, and ensuring error-free, timely, and documented execution.
• Detect and diagnose integration processing exceptions and resolve them using developed solutions.
• Establish, monitor, and maintain alerting/notifications and metrics related to all integrations.
• Partner with the Information Security, Privacy, and Compliance teams to ensure data structures and data flows allow only “need to know” access to enterprise and other sensitive data within the environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in computer science, information technology, or equivalent advanced technical training and experience.
• 3+ years of experience with integrations and application/data warehouse APIs.
• 2+ years of experience designing, developing, and executing integrations in a developer or administrator role with demonstrated use of operational data store (ODS), OLAP, OLTP, EDW, modern ERP system(s).
• Experience working with relational databases, data modeling, migrations and optimizations.
• Experience automating and/or maintaining scheduled jobs to ensure maximum data uptime.
• Experience in designing workflows to solve business and technical problems.
• Experience integrating structured and unstructured data formats: files, XML, JSON, EXCEL.
• Experience integrating data from any source via API, SFTP, or browser-based file uploads.
• Experience with on-prem and SaaS enterprise software (Workday, Ellucian Banner SaaS), modern cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, Dell Boomi, Mulesoft, Informatica, Workday cloud, etc.), systems and integration strategies.
• Experience with ETL tools like SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Azure Data Factory (ADF), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), iPaaS.
• SQL coding skills.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to read and analyze raw data files and compare with transformed data to identify processing problems.
• Experience in higher education.
• Knowledge of reporting tools, SQL (SSRS, SSAS, SSIS), BI Tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.) to support the development and maintenance of business reporting.
• Experience in foundational web service technologies such as SOAP, REST, and JSON.
• Experience with cloud data warehouse solutions such as Edify.
• Experience with SaaS integration development involving platforms such as Workday and Ellucian Banner SaaS.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Java, C++, Visual Basic .NET, Python, etc.

Skills

• Effective communication skills to keep projects moving forward and deliver expected results.
• Ability to convey ideas and recommendations to a wide variety of audiences at all levels in a clear, compelling and succinct way in written and verbal communications.
• Exceptional understanding of industry-accepted security best practices.
• Knowledge of SDLC and SaaS solution implementation and management.
• Knowledge of the Data Processing Cycle.

Benefits

Mines offers a robust portfolio of benefits for all employees, including flexible health and dental care options, generous sick/vacation time, a fully vested retirement plan on the first day of employment, tuition benefits, and free RTD Ecopass. Employees also have access to discount programs through the State of Colorado and free tickets for Mines Athletics home games, as well as access to the state-of-the-art Recreation Center and equipment rentals through the Outdoor Rec Center. Mines also recently opened an on-campus daycare center. For more details about benefits at Mines, visit mines.edu/human-resources/benefits.

Pay

$84,800-91,600

Schedule

Hybrid work model with regular campus presence required. Work arrangements are subject to change based on institutional needs. The successful candidate must be able to commute to campus in Golden, Colorado.