Data Engineer

This is not a remote position. This position is based at our Virginia Beach, VA location.

Good Faith Pay Range: In accordance with Virginia law, the good-faith pay range for this position is $105,000 - $128,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, education, experience, skills, and other legitimate business factors.

Position Summary

The Data Engineer designs, builds, and owns the pipelines and modeled data sets that make up ECPI University's Snowflake data platform. Working directly with the Senior Director of Solution Architecture, this position takes significant components end to end: source system integration, transformation logic, data modeling, performance, cost, and reliability.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not an analyst or reporting position. The University is consolidating data from a range of enterprise and student-facing systems onto a single cloud data platform, and this position is central to whether the information faculty, academic leadership, and student support staff use is accurate, timely, and trusted.

Key Responsibilities

Data Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and own end-to-end pipelines that ingest data from enterprise SaaS applications, student systems, and operational databases into Snowflake, selecting the appropriate pattern for each source across batch, API extraction, change data capture, and near real time streaming.
• Develop transformation logic in SQL and Python as version-controlled, tested, documented code, with orchestration for scheduled and event-driven workloads.
• Contribute to platform architecture with the Senior Director of Solution Architecture, including layering strategy, standards, and reusable patterns.

Data Modeling and Delivery

* Design dimensional, analytics-ready data models that serve reporting, analytics, and downstream integrations, translating requirements from academic, enrollment, fina