PowerBI Developer / Data Scientist

Focus School Software • Full-time • Remote (United States) • 1w ago

PowerBI Developer / Data Scientist position

Focus School Software is a fast-growing school management software company. We thrive on creating some of the most innovative features on the market today, helping educators to meet their evolving needs in classrooms, district management, state reporting compliance, and other facets of student-centered education and technology.

Currently, Focus is looking for energetic, creative, and experienced candidates who can help us succeed in our mission to serve an increasing number of districts across the nation. We keep our clients’ needs at the forefront of everything we do. As a company who understands the hard work of today’s educators, Focus looks for employees who share our values towards education.

Focus School Software is looking to expand our team by hiring a PowerBI Developer / Data Scientist to work with our team. This person will help support our Analytics product which includes dozens of dashboards analyzing student data to help educators target interventions and improve their educational processes. This position may be occasionally customer facing - providing training and professional growth opportunities. The best candidate will display leadership capabilities to help drive data-decision making processes within Focus and our customers. *** Please note, in order to be considered for this position you must complete the quiz.

Minimum Qualifications:

2+ years' experience as a PowerBI developer, data scientist, data analyst or data engineer
Experience with PowerBi Analytics, creating dashboards, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Strong SQL skills
Strong writing and communication skills
Experience with statistical research and analytics techniques (i.e. classification, clustering, regression, segmentation, etc.)

Nice to have:

A passion and interest in the development of Educational software
Knowledge of school district processes and functionality is helpful

Job Responsibilities include:

Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
Analyze large amounts of data/information to discover and articulate trends and patterns
Collecting data through means such as analyzing business results or by setting up and managing new studies
Transferring data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis
Searching through large data sets for usable information
Solve large, complex problems to achieve interrelated and interdependent objectives
Creating reports and presentations for business uses
Correlating similar data to find actionable results

Focus School Software’s compensation package offers the following benefits: