Data Product Specialist — dbt, Snowflake & Dashboards

003 K12 Management Inc.; Virginia (IL); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride, Inc. is seeking a Business Data Specialist to develop and maintain domain-specific data products, using dbt and Snowflake to support reporting, compliance, funding, and analytics.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business teams to ensure data accuracy, lineage, and audit readiness. The role emphasizes strong data skills, documentation, and the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions while maintaining maintainability and

Qualifications

• Five (5) to Seven (7) years of relevant professional experience with data analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Demonstrated experience communicating with various stakeholders including teachers and school leaders
• Self-motivated to solve emergent issues with the best available tools and is expected to work collaboratively with other team members and the broader team of data analysts across the company
• MS365 proficient
• Experience with data analysis, modeling, design and documentation
• Experience in developing reports and/or dashboards with reporting tools like MS Access, MS Power BI, Excel
• Knowledge of programming standards and techniques, ideally with experience writing in SQL
• Ability to communicate technology concepts effectively with technically proficient and non‑technically proficient individuals
• Effective customer service and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Experience in developing reports and/or dashboards
• Ability to travel 10% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance domain-specific data products and data models using dbt and Snowflake to support operational reporting, analytics, compliance, funding, and business processes.
• Partner with the Data Domains team to identify, define, and incorporate enterprise data required to support business‑critical data products.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, reusable technical solutions while balancing immediate business needs with long‑term maintainability.
• Design and implement technical solutions for complex ad‑hoc data requests while identifying opportunities to create reusable data assets.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, root cause analysis, and quality assurance to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of production data.
• Investigate data quality and production issues, identify root causes across upstream and downstream systems, and partner with cross‑functional teams to implement sustainable solutions.
• Design and maintain configuration‑driven solutions that simplify complex business rules while ensuring configuration consistency, usability, and appropriate validation of dependent settings.
• Develop a deep understanding of how business configurations drive system logic and reporting to ensure data products accurately reflect business intent.
• Ensure data models are traceable, well‑documented, and defensible through clear business rules, metadata, testing, and lineage documentation to support audit and compliance requirements.
• Apply systems thinking to understand how data, business rules, configurations, and downstream reporting interact, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities to simplify complex processes.
• Become the technical subject matter expert for assigned business domains, developing expertise in business processes, data lineage, reporting requirements, and system functionality.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to translate functional requirements into scalable technical solutions while providing guidance on technical capabilities, implementation approaches, and data impacts.
• Work closely with Data Engineering, DevOps, Data Governance, Analytics, and other cross‑functional teams to ensure data products meet enterprise standards for quality, security, performance, and governance.
• Evaluate existing data products and technical designs to identify opportunities to improve scalability, performance, maintainability, usability, and data quality.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, business rules, configuration documentation, validation procedures, and data definitions.
• Process confidential and sensitive data in accordance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and data governance standards.

Skills

Advanced Excel

MS365 proficiency

SQL knowledge

Data analysis

Power BI

Stakeholder communication

Travel availability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, technology, or education leadership

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Streamsets

Alation

Python scripting for ETL

MS Access

Job description

Stride, Inc. is seeking a Business Data Specialist to develop and maintain domain-specific data products, using dbt and Snowflake to support reporting, compliance, funding, and analytics.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business teams to ensure data accuracy, lineage, and audit readiness. The role emphasizes strong data skills, documentation, and the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions while maintaining maintainability and