Data Engineer
Foundation for California Community Colleges
Data Engineer
Foundation for California Community Colleges
Nonprofit funding partner for California colleges
Data Engineer
California College Guidance Initiative
Overview of Role
The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) is looking for a data engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure Team. As part of the team, you will be a key contributor in the expansion, refinement, and continued development of CCGI’s infrastructure utilizing Snowflake and Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as continuing to build out our data analytics and engineering tools.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience building out data ETL/ELT workloads, including the testing, maintenance, and refinement of containerized workloads in cloud architectures. The Data Engineer should also have experience successfully scaling up an organization’s data intake from batch to streaming data, as well as automating data delivery. This person is comfortable working with data storage and can troubleshoot data accessibility via SQL, Python, shell scripting, AWS, Snowflake, and take on a leadership role in special projects when needed. Additionally, this person should have experience developing technical documentation and implementing security governance protocols.
While there are no direct supervisory responsibilities for this position, the ideal candidate will have proactively and successfully collaborated with other subject matter experts to move time-bound projects to completion. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have experience working with K-12 or education data and/or have an interest in large educational systems and the equity challenges students face when navigating such systems.
We work to solve large scale, system-level problems. You must be comfortable working with unknowns and ambiguous solutions, as well as passionate about promoting public education and advancing educational equity. This role reports to the Director, Cloud Infrastructure.
What Will You Be Doing?
What Technical Skills Do You Need?
What Intangibles Do You Need?
More About the Cloud Infrastructure Team
This role will join a team of 5 experienced data engineers, working remotely across California, to oversee all of CCGI’s internal cloud-based data infrastructure. This includes overseeing the entirety of CCGI’s data warehousing, data engineering, and data orchestration systems, as well as user-centered data product design and development.
We are looking for candidates who bring experience with them to the role and are interested in joining a collaborative environment that encourages ongoing knowledge sharing and professional development. The Cloud Infrastructure team works regularly with other technical teams at CCGI as well as our student- and educator-facing teams to build sustainable and innovative technical solutions to advance our mission and goals. This role reports to the Director, Cloud Infrastructure.
More About CCGI
The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) is a legislatively authorized service provider to all California school districts as established in California Education Code Section 60900.5. CCGI is a state-funded nonprofit that works in partnership with California’s educational institutions—K-12 Local Education Agencies (LEAs), the California Community Colleges (CCC), the California State University (CSU), the University of California (UC), and the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC)—to smooth the path to college and career for all California students, especially those who have been underrepresented in higher education.
CCGI advances efforts to improve students’ transitions from K-12 to higher education by streamlining the college and financial aid application processes, while providing educators with the information necessary to inform data-driven counseling practices and real-time decision-making.
CCGI achieves this work through management of CaliforniaColleges.edu, the State of California’s official college and career planning platform for 6th-12th grade students. The platform is free for LEAs and serves as an infrastructure for postsecondary planning, data-driven student guidance, and the sharing of student records from K-12 LEAs to California’s public higher education systems and CSAC.
CCGI is housed at the Foundation for California Community Colleges but is an autonomous initiative with its own mission, goals, and leadership team.
CCGI is a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. At our core, we prioritize the needs of students above all else. Everyone at CCGI works remotely from home offices. We are all located in various parts of California and make use of tools, such as ZOOM, Slack, and Salesforce, to communicate and document our work. While some people regularly travel locally and/or statewide for required business meetings, we only occasionally conduct internal meetings in person.
The salary range for this position is: $120,000 to $145,000.
The Foundation’s benefit package currently includes paid holidays, sick and vacation leave; medical, dental, and vision insurance, Employee Assistance Program, a defined benefit retirement plan (CalPERS), and 403(b) and 457(b) retirement plans. Our excellent benefit package also provides $50,000 Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance coverage for eligible employees, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement, Voluntary Life Insurance, Pet insurance and more.
Application Instructions
The application process will be open until the position is filled.
The Foundation for California Community Colleges is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities (EEO) are available to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, genetic characteristics, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, political affiliation, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, the Foundation for California Community Colleges complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
The Foundation for California Community Colleges is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities (EEO) are available to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, genetic characteristics, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, political affiliation, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, the Foundation for California Community Colleges complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range:
$142,000.00 - $145,000.00Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.
Nonprofit funding partner for California colleges
FoundationCCC is the official nonprofit partner to California’s Community Colleges, working to expand student success and equitable access by securing grants, donations, and partnerships. It collaborates with stakeholders such as the California Department of Rehabilitation to fund and support educational programs and career pathways across the state. The organization’s funds come from grants and philanthropy and are allocated to programs that strengthen education and workforce opportunities for diverse students. Its distinct role as the backbone nonprofit for the nation’s largest and most diverse higher-ed network, plus its government and rehabilitation partnerships, sets it apart from other nonprofits. The goal is to increase access to education and improve career opportunities by providing sustained financial support and institutional development for California’s community colleges.
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