Data Warehouse Architect

Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., provides payment technology, education services, and learning management solutions to education and faith-based organizations, serving more than 1,300 higher education institutions, 11,500 K-12 schools, 3,500 churches, and millions of individual students, families, and supporters across the globe. Our culture of service enables us to form long-lasting and trusted partnerships, while our focus on creativity and innovative solutions empowers our customer communities to thrive.

As a Nelnet company, the perks at NBS go beyond our benefits package. You’re part of a community, invested in you as an individual and united by our mission to create opportunities for people where they live, learn and work.

The Data Warehouse Architect drives architecture solutions within the Data Warehouse and creates and provides direction and oversight on the design of relational and dimensional models. This position interfaces with System Architects, Development, Product, Database, and Data Science Teams to resolve data issues, drive capture of data needed by business customers, and provide consumers of the data with efficient models.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Evolve and support the basic tenets of good data architecture.

2. Provide technical leadership in developing vision, strategy, architecture and overall design for assigned domain.

3. Actively facilitate complex design and technical discussions, reconciling differing opinions, and driving the decision making process.

4. Ensure architectural designs are consistent, maintainable and flexible.

5. Proactively identify reuse opportunities.

6. Articulate tradeoffs, benefits and risks of different architecture and design solutions.

7. Contribute to the strategy around the data warehouse in terms of system monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery and architecture.

8. Design, implement and manage data models.

9. Work closely with Data Engineers.

Salary for this role: $100,000-$120,0

EDUCATION :

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.

EXPERIENCE :

1. Hands-on architecture experience working with large and complex data warehouse systems

2. Hands-on experience in database performance tuning preferred

3. Experience with Snowflake preferred.

4. Experience/knowledge with DataVault and dbt preferred

COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:

1. Extensive technical knowledge of Data Warehouse Architecture and ETL/ELT.

2. Knowledge of Business Intelligence platforms (PowerBI preferred).

3. Logical, analytical and creative approach to solving problems.

4. Ability to work both in a team and independently.

5. Ability to handle multiple priorities and work under pressure.

6. Good time management skills to plan and organize own work.

7. Ability to work with data teams and technical teams.

8. Mindset of respect, collaboration and pride in ownership.

9. Ability to adapt to change.

10. Focus on delivering value.

11. Commitment to continued improvement and learning.

For Colorado Residents: Salary range is $100,000-$120,000

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK (http://nelnetinc.com/careers/benefits/) .

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You may know Nelnet as the nation’s largest student loan servicer – but we do more than that. A lot more. We’re also a professional services company, consumer loan originator and servicer, payment processor, renewable energy innovator, and K-12 and higher education expert (and that’s just a shortlist). For over 40 years, we’ve been serving our customers, associates, and communities to make dreams possible.

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