About JerseySTEM

All JerseySTEM roles are pro-bono (unpaid) positions.JerseySTEM is a mission-driven professional network of pro-bono contributors dedicated to improving access to STEM education and career pathways for underserved middle school girls in New Jersey.

Members contribute their professional skills and leverage their networks in service of the organization’s gender-equity agenda.Membership is a minimum six-month commitment of approximately six flexible hours per week and includes a $100 refundable deposit, returned after six months of active membership. K–12 educators, retirees, veterans, interns, and students are exempt from the deposit.

Overview

JerseySTEM is seeking experienced Data Engineers to stabilize and scale core data pipelines that power analytics and reporting. The current platform complexity requires ownership from engineers who can design, implement, and maintain production grade workflows across multiple data sources.This role focuses on operational reliability, sound data modeling, and long term platform sustainability.

Responsibilities

Pipeline Engineering: Designing, configuring, and monitoring production grade ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest unstructured and structured data from third party data sources into our MySQL operational data warehouse using integrate.io, Google Apps Script/JavaScript.
Security & Access Governance: Defining and auditing data access permissions, ensuring security guardrails are maintained as user access privileges rotate.
API Management: Writing and debugging custom scripts and database queries to interact with native platform APIs.
Data Mapping & Classification: Normalizing and mapping complex, disparate schemas from Salesforce CRM, iCIMS talent data, and Jira ticketing systems, and others. Design and maintain analytical models including fact and dimension tables.
Operational Resilience: Manage schema changes, late arriving data, and source inconsistencies. Ensure data quality, consistency
Provide technical leadership and define data integration best practices and standards

Qualifications

FIVE or more years of hands on experience in data engineering or data platform roles
Technology requirements: Google Apps Script/JavaScript, Integrate.io or similar ETL platforms, mySQL, Python
Proven experience integrating external APIs and third party systems
Deep understanding of dimensional modeling and warehouse architecture
Ability to operate independently in a remote environment and own pipelines end to end

What Success Looks Like

ETL pipelines are stable, incremental, and predictable
API ingestion runs with minimal manual intervention
Data models are trusted and analytics ready
Analytics teams focus on insights rather than resolving data issues

About the company

JerseySTEM runs hands-on, project-based STEM programs for underrepresented middle school girls in New Jersey. Through partnerships with corporate sponsors, youth organizations, and college volunteers, it delivers experiences like robotics and climate action projects that build critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and self-esteem. Programs are designed and carried out in collaboration with sponsors and partner groups, ensuring access to STEM learning in community settings. JerseySTEM differentiates itself by specifically serving NJ girls at the middle-school level through a grassroots, nonprofit model that links classroom experiences with real-world applications and corporate sponsorships to expand the talent pipeline. Its goal is to reach 2,600 girls by 2026, empowering them with tools and knowledge to pursue STEM futures and contribute to a diverse, inclusive field.

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Chatham, New Jersey

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What believers are saying

JerseySTEM says it remains on target to reach 2,600 girls by 2026.
2025 volunteer postings show active staffing across curriculum, data, and outreach.
Partnership messaging from December 2025 targets corporate ERGs seeking CSR and talent-pipeline wins.

What critics are saying

All roles are unpaid, limiting retention and institutional continuity.
Recruiting schools, sponsors, and volunteers simultaneously creates execution bottlenecks.
Missing the 2,600-girl 2026 target would expose brittle fundraising and operating leverage.

What makes JerseySTEM unique

Grassroots 501(c) nonprofit focusing on underrepresented New Jersey middle-school girls.
Hands-on, project-based curriculum builds teamwork, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
Volunteer-led model recruits pro-bono professionals and college mentors through six-month commitments.

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Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

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