Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Data Engineer in Dublin to enhance data pipelines into our Enterprise Data Lake and Warehouse using PySpark on AWS Glue, Kafka Connect, and Kinesis Firehose. You will work with learners and educators, bridging data from multiple sources to serve analytics and BI needs.

You’ll partner with data science, learning science and product teams to curate datasets, build dashboards and automate processes while advancing infrastructure-as-code and best practices

Qualifications

• Experience building ETL/data processing pipelines.
• Proficient in Python and Java; Spring Boot beneficial.
• AWS stack experience across key services.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling and Terraform.
• Strong SQL and relational databases experience.
• Kubernetes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Implement data pipelines to populate Enterprise Data Lake/Warehouse.
• Collaborate with data science, learning science and product teams.
• Develop data analytics capabilities and BI dashboards.
• Automate and improve internal processes.
• Promote best practices in deployment and IaC.

Skills

ETL experience

Python

Java

CI/CD tooling

SQL

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS (VPC, S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, IAM)

Terraform

Concourse

Kafka Connect

Kinesis Firehose

Job description

Location:

Location: Dublin, D, IE, D02 R590

Location: Trinity Central, 152-160 Pearse St., Dublin 2.

Job Requisition ID: 17464

The role:

At HMH we’re a learning company. Our learning platforms serve millions of learners and educators.

We have interesting problems to solve, including how students interact with content from our learning platforms, how it impacts learning outcomes, and how to provide data driven guidance to maximize learner’s potential.

How we use data is at the heart of driving great learning experiences.

About the team you’re joining:

You’ll join the HMH data engineering team – here we get data into our Enterprise Data Lake and Enterprise Data Warehouse, and perform interesting data modelling.

You’ll be taking data from different sources, using big data tools to build data pipelines to serve our customer’s needs. We have many different consumers of our data, from data scientists to BI analysts to APIs. As a small and focused team, there’s a lot of flexibility, we give you the opportunity to work across many areas, to hone your data skills to where your passions lie.

More specifically you’ll be:

• Implementing data pipelines to populate our Enterprise Data Lake and Enterprise Data Warehouse using tools such as PySpark on AWS Glue, kafka connect, kinesis firehose.
• Working on improving data infrastructure (AWS) using deployment tools such as terraform, concourse.
• Working closely with our data science, learning science and product teams to develop our data analytics capabilities, curate datasets and build out valuable business intelligence dashboards.
• Automating and improving our internal processes.
• Continuously looking to improve. We a want you to seek out and actively apply best practice. We empower you to bring your ideas to the table and take a fresh look to help us continually improve technology practices, standards and methodologies.

Knowledge & Experience

Here’s what you’ll need to be successful in this role:

• ETL or data processing and orchestration experience.
• Experience in python, java – spring boot would be beneficial.
• AWS stack experience on a variety of the following services – VPC, Glue, s3, Lambda, Lake Formation, Athena, IAM.
• Experience in CI/CD tooling and terraform.
• Experience in SQL and working with relational databases.
• Kubernetes experience would be beneficial but not essential.

ABOUT US:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K-12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting‑edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award‑winning children's books, novels, non‑fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.

For more information, visit http://careers.hmhco.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.

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