Position location: This person will be working ONSITE in a full-time capacity in Detroit, MI. Remote work is not an option. Candidates must be currently local to the Detroit area in order to be considered. Top Skills: • A bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field, and/or equivalent experience • More than 3 years’ experience transforming raw data into useful data systems/platforms • Experience building and operating distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets from multiple sources • Expert command of SQL with experience building database tables • Expert command of Python or similar analytical programming languages • Experience compiling and maintaining technical documentation • Experience communicating business requirements and project plans with internal clients Responsibilities include the following: • Contribute to the development of a modern data infrastructure that drives decision-making at all levels of the organization. • Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new integrations to support the increasing data volume and complexity. • Extract, transform, and load data from raw unstructured data to consumable structured data. • Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it. • Write and curate documentation internally and externally around business rules for metrics. • Collaborate as a contributing member of the Data Services Infrastructure working group. Key projects include the following: • Develop data pipelines to ingest and load data from various sources • Implement automated data quality checks and alerts • Contribute to the development and planning of calculating school performance metrics • Maintain a vendor data sync that helps school-based staff access student data • Optimize data infrastructure to enable analysts across the district to access core data Interviews: Candidates MUST be available for the possibility of either in-person or virtual interviews. For virtual interviews please use a laptop and be prepared so share screen if asked. Use of headphones is strongly discouraged. A screenshot photo of candidate will be required for any Teams interviews as well as a vendor present at beginning of interview to validate candidate.Duration: 1 Year with possible extension. Job Type: Contract Pay: $49.00 - $57.00 per hour Expected hours: 40 per week Ability to Commute: Detroit, MI 48202 (Required) Work Location: In person