Data Integration Engineer

Data Integration Engineer

Mines IT Department is seeking our next Data Integration Engineer! The Data Integration Engineer is responsible for the development, implementation, and support of secure data integrations, migrations, and ETL/ELT pipelines across the university's ERP, student information system, and data warehouse. As a key member of the Application Services team, this role is a driver of campus-wide data interoperability and growth of the Workday ecosystem. The person in this role builds and maintains data pipelines that automate workflows, eliminate operational bottlenecks, and support institutional reporting and system connectivity, benefiting students, faculty, and staff.

This position currently operates in a hybrid work model with regular campus presence required. Work arrangements are subject to change based on institutional needs. The successful candidate must be able to commute to campus in Golden, Colorado.

Position Summary

The Data Integration Engineer is primarily responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting data integrations and migrations for the ERP, student information system, data warehouse, and new system implementations. This individual is a member of the Application Services team within the Information Technology Department.

The Data Integration Engineer helps build an environment that supports process efficiency and effectiveness, integrating systems into the existing Mines application landscape and the data warehouse. They work with the Institutional Research and Analytics (IRSA) team and other campus stakeholders to populate the Mines data warehouse with data needed to support campus analysis and reporting. Additionally, they are focused on building and supporting system-to-system data integration solutions that align with industry trends and position the school for long-term growth and sustainability.

This person establishes and applies best practices and research, resolves complex day-to-day integration and migration issues, gathers requirements from vendors and business partners for data migrations and integrations, and builds solutions to meet those requirements.

This team member contributes to a healthy, productive environment by identifying and creating best practices that drive innovation and business improvements.

Create and Support Data Warehouse Migrations

• Analyze new systems and work with business and technical teams to develop functional and technical requirements to integrate them with the data warehouse.
• Develop and execute data migration solutions that ensure the new systems contain the data necessary to enable proper function and provide the historical data necessary to meet the needs of the business.
• Build and maintain solutions that use ETL/ELT (extract, transform, and load) tools, pre-built application data migration tools and utilities, and batch upload scripts using secure file transfer methods.
• Support the migration of business data associated with new application implementations, consolidations, and business process improvements through project participation, data analysis and troubleshooting, and end-to-end execution of data load processes.
• Manipulate and transform large data sets in a database to effectively troubleshoot issues and conduct data analysis.

Create and Support Data Integrations

• Analyze new systems and work with business and technical teams to develop functional and technical requirements to integrate them with existing systems.
• Develop and maintain data integrations and components, utilizing pre-built application data integration connectors, internal and external API-based integrations, and batch upload integrations using secure file transfer methods.
• Determine and design changes to existing system integrations that improve performance or enhance operations as driven by business needs.
• Ensure data structures and integration data flows are well documented and facilitate processes and procedures to ensure documentation is comprehensive and kept up to date as support and change requirements evolve.
• Monitor the movement of data between systems and data stores, maintaining the integrity of data, providing for required transformations, and ensuring error-free, timely, and documented execution. Detect and diagnose integration processing exceptions and resolve them using developed solutions.
• Establish, monitor, and maintain alerting/notifications and metrics related to all integrations
• Partner with the Information Security, Privacy, and Compliance teams to ensure data structures and data flows allow only "need to know" access to enterprise and other sensitive data within the environment.

Outreach and Communications

• The employee in this position communicates frequently with IRSA, application stakeholders, report writers and consumers. Communication includes project, system availability, and ticket updates. Effective communication ensures ticket resolution, keeps projects moving forward, and delivers expected results.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in computer science, information technology, or equivalent advanced technical training and experience. Individuals without a related degree may be considered if they demonstrate possession of the same knowledge level found in a degree but have attained advanced knowledge through a combination of work experience and intellectual instruction using a 1:1 substitution.
• 3+ years of experience with integrations and application/data warehouse APIs.
• 2+ years of experience designing, developing, and executing integrations in a developer or administrator role with demonstrated use of operational data store (ODS), OLAP, OLTP, EDW, modern ERP system(s).
• Experience working with relational databases, data modeling, migrations and optimizations.
• Experience automating and/or maintaining scheduled jobs to ensure maximum data uptime.
• Experience in designing workflows to solve business and technical problems.
• Experience integrating structured and unstructured data formats: files, XML, JSON, EXCEL.
• Experience integrating data from any source via API, SFTP, or browser-based file uploads.
• Experience with on-prem and SaaS enterprise software (Workday, Ellucian Banner SaaS), modern cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, Dell Boomi, Mulesoft, Informatica, Workday cloud, etc.), systems and integration strategies.
• Experience with ETL tools like SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Azure Data Factory (ADF), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), iPaaS.
• SQL coding skills
• Ability to convey ideas and recommendations to a wide variety of audiences at all levels in a clear, compelling and succinct way in written and verbal communications.
• Analytical skills and experience with complete lifecycle of enterprise projects.
• Exceptional understanding of industry-accepted security best practices.
• Knowledge of SDLC and SaaS solution implementation and management.
• Knowledge of the Data Processing Cycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to read and analyze raw data files and compare with transformed data to identify processing problems.
• Experience in higher education.
• Knowledge of reporting tools, SQL (SSRS, SSAS, SSIS), BI Tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.) to support the development and maintenance of business reporting.
• Experience in foundational web service technologies such as SOAP, REST, and JSON.
• Experience with cloud data warehouse solutions such as Edify.
• Experience with SaaS integration development involving platforms such as Workday and Ellucian Banner SaaS.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Java, C++, Visual Basic.NET, Python, etc.

Salary and Benefits

$84,800-91,600

Mines takes into consideration a combination of candidate's education, training and experience as well as the position's scope and complexity, the discretion and latitude required in the role, work location, and external market and internal value when determining a salary level for potential new employees.

Colorado School of Mines offers a robust portfolio of benefits for all employees. For this role, that includes:

• Flexible health and dental care options
• Generous sick/vacation time: 13 paid holidays per year – including a week-long winter break for entire campus.
• Fully vested retirement plan on first day of employment, with generous employer contribution
• Tuition benefits (6 credits per year for employees, 50 percent discount for dependents)
• Free RTD Ecopass

All Mines employees also have access to discount programs through the State of Colorado and free tickets for Mines Athletics home games, as well as access to the state of the art Recreation Center (fitness classes and training, swimming pool and more) and equipment rentals through the Outdoor Rec Center. We are proud to have recently opened an on campus daycare center. For more details about benefits at Mines, visit mines.edu/human-resources/benefits.

How to Apply

Complete an online application (personal information, demographic information, veteran status)

• Upload a resume or CV
• Upload a cover letter

Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This posting may be used to fill more than one