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Job Description:
Budget Title: Senior Programmer/Analyst (SL-4)
Salary: Commensurate with experience

Office of Student Affairs Assessment and Solutions for Engagement (SAASE) at Binghamton University is seeking a data architect to join the office.

The successful candidate will:

• Work with the Director of SAASE and divisional partners to build and improve the data infrastructure for the Division of Student Affairs.
• Develop an understanding of the data housed in various systems within the division of student affairs and how it relates to other university data and systems on campus.
• Develop processes that improve data access and availability across units and systems.
• Develop and implement data management processes and procedures to ensure data accuracy, security, and proper use within the division.
• Develop software processes which consume real-time data exposed via vendor APIs and update a local data model (database) to reflect current and accurate information spanning a variety of vendor systems.
• Create and maintain a central Student Affairs data hub that brings together key data from various systems for analytical and reporting purposes.
• Build and maintain Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), metadata, and other necessary documentation.
• Develop flexible, reproducible reports, dashboards, and other data products that streamline reporting for the office/division.

Requirements:

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional or paraprofessional experience (GA/internship).
• Strong skills and experience in database design, database administration, and data normalization.
• Ability to understand and translate the different data needs to operational, technical, and analytical staff.
• Demonstrated experience with various data extraction tools and methods (SOAP, REST, RPC, GraphQL, XML, JSON, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and maintaining automated ETL processes.
• Proficient to strong knowledge of Python and SQL.
• Proficient in using the R programming language to develop reproducible reports, data summaries, and visualizations.
• Experience developing Shiny apps and other dashboards using R.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and tidy data structure.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and present data concepts in a clear and concise fashion to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Requirements

• Start Date: No Start Date
• Education: Bachelor's Degree Required
• Work Experience: 2 - 4 years
• Part/Full Time: Full-Time

Contact / Additional Information

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Application Instructions:

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Deadline for Internal Applicants: 

Deadline for External Applicants: Open until filled

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1. Resume,
2. Cover letter, and
3. Contact information for three professional references

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