A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As a member of the engineering organization at Amplify, you will join a talented team taking on the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology – including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines. You’ll play an active role in inventing and improving product design and the classroom experience.

What You’ll Do

Amplify’s Data Governance team is responsible for ensuring our data's quality, accuracy, security, and consistency through a mix of visibility and controls. We truly believe in a culture of data enablement and strive to empower our teams to achieve their objectives through the use of data. Our purpose is to encourage users to explore and be confident in the data, not put up gates to limit or restrict. We believe that data has the power to drive our business, improve the efficacy of our products, and, most importantly, change the lives of teachers and students - and to do that, the Data Governance team ensures the data is well-defined, discoverable, secure, and high quality.

• Impress the toughest customers around – students – by ensuring that Amplify data is well defined, of high quality, and can provide trustworthy insights into student experiences spanning all of Amplify’s products, systems and platforms.  

• Help school administrators build great schools by ensuring that high-quality data is leveraged to allow our educators to make informed decisions regarding curriculum, resource allocation, and individualized student support

• Make life better for passionate Amplify teams across the organization by providing a place to have the important conversations about data challenges, decisions and strategies, and by curating  business glossary definitions and physical metadata that clarifies data sources and definitions

• Learn every day by partnering with our colleagues to understand Amplify’s data needs, and seeking out innovative industry best practices and resources to continually improve and strengthen Amplify’s Data Governance framework.

• Delivery: 

  • Drive the successful technical delivery of the Data Catalog

  • Support the Data Domain and Stewardship teams with data governance efforts, such as Business Glossary definitions and asset enrichment

  • Execute the rollout of data governance initiatives and policies 

• Communication and Collaboration: Partner with data stakeholders across the organization to promote data governance goals, assist with breaking down invisible data barriers, and understand, catalog, and steward key data assets for the company to gain a comprehensive understanding of the data assets

• Change Management: Assist in the development of policies, procedures, and self-service governance tools within the metadata catalog to help all functions meet their governance needs

• Leadership: Provide Leadership to our data stakeholders during key initiatives such as launch of the Amplify Data Catalog / Metadata management tool and building strong Data Stewardship teams. 

• People Skills:  Foster strong relationships and navigate diverse stakeholder perspectives in order to gain consensus for data governance work efforts

• Strategy: Assist in helping to drive data governance security and access policies, help define data quality

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Rollout of the Data Catalog / Metadata Management tool:  Own key technical aspects of a data catalog implementation by assisting with requirements gathering, metadata collection monitoring, developing automation scripts and other related tasks

• Data Quality:  Help to establish data quality standards and launch efforts to measure and improve data quality

• Metadata Definition:  Assist Data Stewards in defining key metadata for Amplify Data Domains

• Data Access and Security:  Work with Data Governance leaders and data stakeholder to assist with defining and articulating data access and security policies

• Business Glossary: Help to coordinate the definition of  key business terms 

Basic Requirements of the Data Governance Analyst (Contractor):

• Experience working with a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics stack ( dbt, Snowflake, AWS)

• Understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support

• 3+ years of professional data / analytics engineering experience, or in a data-intensive field

• 3+ years of experience working in a data governance or data management function

• 3+ years working directly on the implementation of Atlan or other data catalog, glossary or metadata management tools such as Secoda, Alation, data.world, or Colibra

• Hands on experience with business intelligence and reporting tools

• Excellent communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners

• Drive to understand data and its relevance to our business and product decisions

Preferred Requirements of the Data Governance Analyst (Contractor):

• Familiar with working with Data Quality / Data Observability tools such as Monte Carlo

• Experience with tools we use every day:

• Storage: Snowflake, AWS Storage Services (S3, RDS, Glacier, DynamoDB)

• ETL/BI: Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Looker, Tableau

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Terraform

• Experienced and knowledgeable with development languages like SQL, Python, R

• Proven passion and talent for teaching fellow engineers and non-engineers

• Experience in education, ed-tech, or other fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements

Compensation:

The hourly rate range for this role is $60 -$65.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. 

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.

If selected, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may also be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination or submit to enhanced background screening, including fingerprints.