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Technical Specialist (TS) - More than 10 years relevant experience.
Complete Description:
Technical Specialist – Level, Emerging
The Technical Specialist is a senior level resource with specialized knowledge and experience in a specific technology. The Technical Specialist has an overall knowledge and understanding of application development and architecture that serves as a strong base for technical expertise in a specific product or program. The TS also has an advanced experience in the required technical subject matter.
Role Description:
As a Technical Specialist
You will help design and analyze educational data sets to understand ecosystems, student behaviors, and long-term trends
You advocate for strong analytical methodologies and metadata standards across the organization
You assist with the definition, evaluation, and calculation of key educational performance metrics
You will help foster a culture of data-informed analytical evaluation to improve education
You sit at the intersection between technology, policy, and executive leadership to inform, influence, and support data informed decisions on educational policy
You build complex data sets and visualizations to empower operational and exploratory analysis asking creative questions to expose hidden insights in the data and inform decisions impacting millions of students
Your skillset:
- Ability to interpret large amounts of data, multi-task, and produce results independently or collaboratively in a team environment
- Capable of in taking and integrating large sets of information from multiple sources, formulate/validate hypotheses, make recommendations, and summarizing complex data nuances to senior stakeholders
- Experience extracting data from a variety of sources, and a desire to expand those skills
- Willing to learn new technologies and methods related to data analytics, data visualization and statistical analysis
- Thinks holistically to create innovative scalable solutions to data analysis problems
- Develop various complex and advanced items using T-SQL, SSRS, SSAS and SSIS.
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
4 year college degree or equivalent technical study | Required | 4 | Years |
Written and Spoken Communication | Required | 10 | Years |
SQL | Required | 10 | Years |
SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) | Required | 5 | Years |
SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) | Required | 5 | Years |
SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) | Required | 5 | Years |
Data Modeling | Required | 10 | Years |
Working with and cleansing data | Required | 10 | Years |
Data Analysis | Required | 10 | Years |
Statistics | Required | 5 | Years |
Education Data (NCES, IPEDS, CEDS, CDS) | Desired | 2 | Years |
UI/Data Visualization Tools (Tableau, QlickView, iDashboards) | Desired | 2 | Years |
File Manipulation (Python) | Desired | 2 | Years |
