Data Architect, Top Hat
Interactive software for higher education
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Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL is essential
- Experience with data visualization tools is highly desirable
- 5 years of experience with data modelling in an agile work environment
- Profess in multiple modelling techniques
- In-depth understanding of database storage principles
- Alignment with a culture of experimentation and A/B testing
- Experience gathering and analyzing product requirements
- Knowledge of data mining and segmentation techniques
- Expertise in SQL and MySQL
- Creation of ETL Specifications to satisfy product requirements
- Testing of Data products
- Familiarity with ERwin data modelling tool
- Familiarity with big data systems like Hadoop, Spark and dbt
- Familiarity with database management systems like PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Familiarity with data visualization tools
- Proven analytical skills
- Problem-solving attitude
- Comfortable with agile practices
- Possesses an experimentation mindset
- BSc in Computer Science or relevant field
Desirable
- Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS) or other EdTech platforms
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with data security and compliance, including GDPR and CCPA
- Experience working with offshore data engineering teams
What the job involves
- We are actively searching for a highly competent, experienced, and hands-on Data Architect to join our data team
- In this role, you will play a crucial part in designing, optimizing, and implementing conceptual and logical data models
- Your responsibilities will include analyzing requirements, designing consistent database schemas, modelling data lake structures, implementing data migration strategies, driving data ownership policy, and ensuring the efficient and secure storage and querying of company information
- This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the development of our data architecture and make a significant impact to the success of our organization
- Analyze requirements and translate them to conceptual and logical data models for our applications and the data warehouse
- Optimize and/or perform migration on existing database systems
- Improve system performance by conducting tests, troubleshooting and integrating new elements
- Develop and maintain a data dictionary and metadata management strategy
- Develop and maintain data governance policies, procedures, and standards to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the data
- Coordinate with the Data Science and Revenue Operation teams to identify future needs and requirements
- Provide operational support for downstream business units
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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