Senior Data Analyst (Contractor)

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.
As a member of the engineering organization at Amplify, you will join a dedicated team taking on the most challenging 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.
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What You'll Do:
Our data analytics teams ingest, transform, model, and aggregate the data that empowers teams across Amplify and our customers to make sense of and tell stories with their data. You'll be working with learning scientists and data engineers to deliver accurate and reliable reports, dashboards, models, metrics, and analyses for our products and internal business partners. We believe strongly in teaching our teammates to serve themselves, within a safe, reliable, and agile data environment. You'll be building analytical solutions but also the sharing-and-learning culture so that every team uses your analysis to improve their own lives and those of our students and teachers
Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with internal business partners, data scientists, and data engineers to identify precise data requirements, define and refine metrics and clarify technical requirements. Effectively communicate status, risks, open questions, and blockers across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
Data Analysis: Become an expert in the Amplify data models. Analyze data from various sources and communicate insights to executives, leaders, and other key collaborators
Data Visualization: Design, build, and maintain intuitive, alluring data visualizations that provide critical visibility for all levels to lead and operate effectively. Write accompanying concise and accurate documentation
Accurate and Consistent: Proactively identify inaccuracies in data. Determine and implement solutions to improve data quality. Collaborate with the data governance team to ensure consistency of key metrics
Coaching: Assist in coaching and mentoring more junior analysts on industry best practices, including visualization and analysis techniques
Example Projects You Might Work On:

• Improve calibration of customer support auditors by analyzing historic audit results, developing a calibration dashboard, and recommending an appropriate target to leadership
• Enhance the customer support case data model to allow for efficient analysis of the impact of one case type on another in partnership with data engineering
• Deliver professional development services more cost-effectively by providing transparency to the true cost of delivery and related revenue. Analyze cost trends based on delivery method, geographic location, session type, etc. To identify and address the most significant cost drivers

Basic Requirements of the Sr. Data Analyst

• 5+ years of experience in a data science/analyst role; or related experience
• Superb communication skills in writing and conversation, especially with non-technical partners
• Extensive expertise using business intelligence and data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker), including advanced knowledge of SQL
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT pipelines and related tooling, understanding of relational data models, and metric creation
• A drive to understand data and key performance metrics and their relevance to our business and product decisions
• Ability to learn and adopt new tools and methods
• Strong analytical background and experience driving self-directed projects

Preferred Requirements of the Sr. Data Analyst

• Demonstrable record of using data visualization best practices
• Experience working with a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics stack (Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, AWS, Fivetran)
• Proficient in a statistical or functional programming language (preferably Python or R)
• Understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support
• Background in education or in edtech, or other fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements
• Experience building reports and analyzing data from company platforms, e.g., Netsuite, Hubspot, Salesforce, etc

Compensation:
The hourly rate range for this role is $43-$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.