Data Integration Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the ingestion, transformation, and exchange of data between school systems and the Timely application.

• Ensure the accuracy, security, and scalability of customer data pipelines.

• Collaborate with customer success teams, SIS representatives, and district IT personnel to design, plan, and implement integration workflows.

• Create and uphold best practices for data integration, along with documentation and institutional knowledge.

• Introduce process enhancements and automation.

• Develop and test lightweight scripts and tools, including Python scripts with Claude Code, in collaboration with the engineering team.

• Lead the discovery process for integrations with new SISs and cultivate relationships with customers and potential SIS partners.

• Contribute to product, technology, process, and organizational improvements to enhance the scalability of the data integrations function.

• Facilitate onboarding for new team members and continuously enhance integration processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of at least one Student Information System, preferably PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, Aeries, Frontline, Focus, Synergy, eSchoolPlus, Alma, or Aspen.

• Verified experience in data integration within K12 education, school or district data administration, data analysis, or data engineering.

• Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, SQL, REST APIs, and SIS import/export and reporting tools.

• Experience in transferring data between systems through SIS imports and exports, ETL pipelines, or API-based integrations.

• Exceptional communication and collaboration abilities with a focus on customer satisfaction.

• Capacity to thrive in a dynamic, remote startup environment.

• Proven ability to lead technical discussions with a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Comfort in dealing with uncertainty and a willingness to establish new processes.

• Hands-on experience in loading and manipulating student and teacher scheduling data into a SIS is strongly preferred.

• Openness to learning command-line tools and Claude Code for developing and testing Python scripts; prior software engineering experience is beneficial but not mandatory.

• Familiarity with REST APIs and basic scripting for API-based data extraction.

• Understanding of SIS data structures, including students, courses, enrollments, sections, staffing, and rooms.

• Eligibility to work in the United States; the application will inquire if sponsorship for U.S. work authorization is needed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Parental leave

• 401(k)

• Unlimited PTO

• Access to co-working spaces

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup