Data Engineer

About Bellarmine University:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.

SmartAsset ranked Louisville among the top 25 U.S. cities for best work-life balance, while workplace insights platform kununu.com named Louisville one of the top five U.S. cities for happy employees. Glassdoor recently recognized Louisville as one of the top 15 cities for jobs, based on hiring opportunity, cost of living and job satisfaction. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 10 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Job Description:

Bellarmine University is seeking a Data Engineer with responsibility for maintaining the data warehouse, pipelines, and models to join the Office of Information Technology. This position will report to the Sr. Director of Enterprise Data and ERP Ecosystem.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing and maintaining enterprise data warehouses and lakes that store and process critical data for the university. The Data Engineer ensures data integrity, quality, and security throughout the data lifecycle, from data entry, definition, storage, to reporting. The Data Engineer also supports and collaborates with administrators and staff across the institution in the data mapping, integration, and analysis using various tools and techniques. The Data Engineer plays a key role in ensuring the data compliance with state and federal regulations as well as internal reporting to optimize budget and resource efficiency.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide oversight of all data acquired, collected, generated, purchased, or via any other method used by Bellarmine for any purpose. This oversight begins with data creation or acquisition and continues until the data is ultimately disposed of.

Serve as the principal architect of Bellarmine's data warehouse/data lake strategy; and take ownership for the successful implementation of the strategy.

Help to ensure all data is stored, accessed, processed, and transmitted using best available and affordable information security methods; this includes serving as a training resource to help Bellarmine community members learn how to apply these methods to data they or their department / division / school own.

Take ownership of the data usage conversation at Bellarmine and drive the agenda. Provide appropriate guidance to Bellarmine leadership at all levels regarding the appropriate sourcing and use of data.  Keep aware of the latest in regulatory requirements regarding privacy.

Continuously research reporting platforms that are available in the higher ed space and be able to clearly explain those platforms to Bellarmine audiences of varying technical capacities.

Serve as a thought leader and key resource for the various data analysts who serve around the Bellarmine community.

Oversee Bellarmine's Data Retention/Purge policy, proposing updates as our data and/or applicable retention / purge regulations change.  Serve as a resource to Bellarmine's various departments / divisions / schools and provide an audit function for same.

Ensure system data integrity to support accurate compliance reporting and reliable metrics for institutional data informed decisions.

Drive the creation and validation of dashboards that will support increasing efficiency in time, resources, or supporting student success.

Maintain security and confidentiality regarding all appropriate files, records, and documents.

Clearly and effectively communicate with various groups of Bellarmine community members of varying technical capacities.

Help Bellarmine community members troubleshoot problems, and either directly work toward finding solutions or working with other support resources to solve the problems.

Assume additional duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION / EXPERIENCE)
Bachelors degree in a relevant technical field and four years of hands-on experience in a similar role, but additional experience in a relevant technical field will be considered.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Windows Server administration skills.

SQL Server administration, including a solid functional knowledge of building data queries, data manipulation, data definition, and data control statements.

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) experience.

Ellucian Colleague (R18) administration, including DMI & Envision patch management, Web API, Self-Service, and UI support and troubleshooting.

Colleague Reporting and Operational Analysis (CROA) experience.

Knowledge of Ellucian SaaS technologies is very beneficial, including any of the following:

• Data Access
• Data Connect
• Data Model
• Experience
• Extend
• Insights
• Integration
• Intelligent Learning Platform
• Messaging Adaptor & Messaging Service
• Person Service

Additional Information:

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Application Instructions:

Bellarmine University strongly recommends all students, faculty, and staff stay up to date on their Covid-19 vaccination. For guidance on whether you are considered up to date on your vaccinations, please visit the CDC site .

For consideration, you must submit a resume, a letter of interest, and three professional references.