BI Developer/Data Engineer - Institutional Research and Assessment

This position is Open until filled. Early applications are encouraged as the position may close before the listed deadline once a suitable candidate is found.

Summary of Job Duties:

The BI Developer/Data Engineer leads the development and maintenance of several ETL processes, designs data-related structures and flows, promotes best practices in the coding space, and collaborates with various units across campus. The solutions that this role creates and maintains will directly contribute to reporting solutions that are consumed by campus leadership, campus data partners, and external entities.

Responsibilities include assisting in a campus-wide data transformation that involves the migration to Workday Student as our student information system. The individual will be driving the redesign and support of several processes, sets of code, and reports that directly contribute to the university’s mission of enabling student success. Additional responsibilities would include assisting and collaborating with the team on other reporting tasks such as state and federal reporting requirements, ad hoc requests, and other analytics driven reporting.

Extensive experience and knowledge of SQL and data relationships is required, as is the ability to read, write, and analyze queries of varying complexity. Analyzing, designing, and optimizing processes to be more efficient according to best practices is a requirement. The incumbent should seek opportunities to continuously improve the team’s technical footprint by automating manual or laborious processes to free up time to innovate in other ways.

Great communication skills are essential as the incumbent will help establish and promote a data-driven campus culture, collaborate with campus data partners, and contribute to the overall data strategy mission of the university. Additionally, understanding the importance that data accuracy and data quality plays into the success of data-driven decision making is a key element of the role and the team.

Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education

SQL coding expertise

ETL process development

Data literacy

Strong code analysis skills

Ability to anticipate and identify data issues before they become problems, either in the source system or our internal processes

Knowledge and implementation of best practices with coding

Proficiency in translating business requirements into technical terms for IT people in a project centric environment

Preferred Qualifications:

Complex debugging capabilities

Familiarity with SAS Enterprise programming

System migration project/go-live experience

Produces efficient documentation that is easily interpreted

Proven track record of success in other data roles

Workday report development/data extraction

Previous experience in higher education

Data model design experience

Some knowledge of visualization tools

Process design or coding in Azure or SQL Server environments

Knowledge of data governance practices

Past usage of code repositories

Additional Information:

Salary Information:

Commensurate with Education and Experience

Required Documents to Apply:

Cover Letter/Letter of Application, List of three Professional References (name, email, business title), Resume

Optional Documents:

Proof of Veteran Status

Recruitment Contact Information:

Brandon Bayles, Director of Strategic Analytics & Insights
bbayles@uark.edu

All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Site https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS  

Please do not send to listed recruitment contact.