Data Integration Specialist
at PA Education Association

Are you looking for a place where innovation and collaboration join forces to support a vision of Health for All? Do you thrive in environments where you can roll up your sleeves and create and enhance an infrastructure that helps drive a national impact? The PA Education Association (PAEA) is looking for you: a creative, driven professional to join our team as a Data Integration Specialist.  

The Data Integration Specialist position will work across the organization, most notably with PAEA’s Research & Data, Assessment, and Digital Operations teams, to design, develop, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines. The ideal candidate must have the capabilities to develop a deep understanding of the PAEA’s Salesforce instance and broader data ecosystem and architecture. This role will heavily emphasize quality assurance and data integrity, facilitating proactive testing, error identification, and remediation of dataflows. In addition to active and proactive interaction across teams at PAEA, the Data Integration Specialist will regularly interface with PAEA’s vendors and partners. 

Please include your resume and a cover letter when applying for this position. 

This position may be exposed to sensitive and confidential information daily, this individual is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality that knowledge of such warrants. In this position, employees must respect and protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of all personal information to which they have access in the performance of their duties for PAEA, in accordance with PAEA’s Privacy Policy and the PAEA Employee Handbook that all employees must sign. 

Specific Responsibilities: 

1. Design and implement data integration processes across systems, both internal and external to PAEA. 
2. Build and maintain extract, transfer, and load (ETL) processes and robust data pipelines. 
3. Develop strategies to maintain data integrity across distributed systems. 
4. Monitor data workflows and troubleshoot as required. 
5. Conduct ongoing quality control, particularly for PAEA assessment data, working with psychometricians and members of the Research & Data and Digital Operations teams to create robust quality control procedures and processes for monitoring the status/health of the assessment systems.
6. Develop technical training materials and educate end-users on data sources, transfers, and data meaning-making.
7. Contribute to data governance and integrity by maintaining data structures at scale. 
8. Design and implement scalable solutions that support high growth while preserving system reliability. 

Other Duties 

The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

Required  

1. Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. 
2. Salesforce Administrator, Architect, or Developer certification. 
3. Strong command of SQL/SOQL. 
4. Proven experience in scaling large systems while maintaining performance, data accuracy, and user experience.
5. Expertise across the phases of program/software development lifecycle. 
6. Expertise in API calls and data queries, including software proficiency to perform calls and manage data lakes/warehouses appropriately.
7. Strong problem-solving ability in acute settings and deriving long-term solutions. 
8. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical expertise.

Preferred:  

1. Experience working with exam delivery software/architecture. 
2. Experience/Expertise in network/connectivity metadata and problem identification/diagnosis. 

ADA Specifications 

1. Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodation.

Travel Requirements 

Periodic travel will be required for this role to all-staff meetings, PAEA events, professional development opportunities, and any other meetings as deemed necessary. 

Essential Functions: 

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. 

Work Environment & Benefits 

This position is remote, with no in-office presence required. 

The individual in this position must be authorized to work in the United States. 

PAEA offers a competitive salary and benefits that considers external market compensation and maintains internal equity. The salary range for this position is $95,000- $105,000 annually. The benefits package includes health, life, and disability insurances; paid time off and holidays; a 403(b) retirement plan with an 8% employer contribution; monthly wellness stipend, professional development funding, tuition assistance, and other benefits. 

Fairness and Accessibility 

PAEA is committed to fairness and accessibility in all areas of its business activities, including employment, management, procurement and contracting. As such, it is the policy of PAEA to afford equal opportunity in employment and contracting without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religious preference, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, status as a parent, disability, veteran or any other status protected by applicable US law.