Data Integration Specialist

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We offer the leading student conversion service for universities - increasing conversion of prospective students for the university, while improving the student experience pre-enrolment. The Data Integration/ETL Specialist will be responsible for the management, development and implementation of integration solutions for both new and existing partners. Intelligently and robustly managing the complexity of varied data sources for each partner is critical.

We are looking for someone who can bring a breadth of knowledge and experience, with innate curiosity, to our growing business, ensuring our solutions continue to meet the requirements of our partner base in a robust and scalable way. In turn, we offer a supportive and open work environment, with fantastic and ambitious colleagues, and training and development opportunities to help you in your growth in this important role.

As an ETL Specialist your primary focus will be the technical delivery of data feeds and integrations, and a limited number of migration projects with our partners. You will also support the development of improved data architecture and data strategy. Working closely with our project and client teams to understand requirements, you will analyse source data architecture and systems, and deliver the most effective data integration approach with the UQ Platform as the target (built on Salesforce). An ability to work independently, prioritise effectively, communicate brilliantly, and a willingness to learn new applications and design new solutions are all critical to success in this role.

Our perks and benefits include:

25 days holiday + the Christmas break (in between Christmas and New Year) + bank holidays

Pension scheme & life assurance

Company social events

Monthly birthday breakfasts

Access to online perks (discounts etc)

Friday ‘bar'

Gym onsite

Your key responsibilities:

Plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the implementation of initial data integration deployments, ongoing scheduled integrations and ad hoc data loads

Act as the lead in the development and assessment of all interfaces required to support application integration

Ensure alignment between all parties for the successful execution of integration User Acceptance Testing

Proactively look for opportunities to increase automation, working across teams to ensure successful adoption

Analyse data quality and integrity and design solutions to address areas of concern

Essential experience and traits:

Managing large data volumes via a variety of ETL tools, such as Jitterbit Harmony and Zapier

Familiarity of frameworks such as SOAP/XML, REST/JSON APIs and tools such as GitHub

Advanced Excel skills

SQL tuning and writing of scripts

Excellent communication and client-facing skills, including communicating complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Creating a high standard of documentation to support product team and wider business

Collaborative approach to work and experience of agile methodologies (SCRUM/Kanban)

Nice to have:

Experience of using Salesforce.com