Principal Software Engineer, Data Warehouse
New Meridian Corporation, located in Austin, TX seeks outstanding candidates for the Principal Software Engineer, Data Warehouse. This position, reporting to the Director of Waypoint Administration, Scoring, and Reporting, will support the New Meridian team in serving as technical leader across data warehouse architecture, implementation, and operational excellence.
WHO WE ARE:
New Meridian is a non-profit, assessment design and development organization. We believe assessments should focus on skills that matter critical thinking, deep understanding, and the ability to communicate ideas effectively. Developing these skills prepares students to adapt and thrive in a complex world. At New Meridian, we create high-quality assessments that measure these skills to ensure all students have access to valuable educational experiences.
Our mission is to advance the quality of public education for all students by designing assessments that focus on the skills that matter. |
Our team is marked by our passionate commitment to improving learning outcomes for students, our focus on empowering teachers, and our belief that high-quality assessments are a lever for expanding equity in education. We are recognized as leaders in assessment innovation driven by our desire to engage and solve complex problems and our willingness to go the extra mile for our customers.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
SUMMARY: We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in data warehousing to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade data platforms that support large-scale educational assessments, scoring, reporting, and analytics. This role requires strong architectural judgment, hands-on technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, psychometrics, assessment operations, and data quality teams. The ideal candidate brings experience designing modern data warehouses and pipelines, ensuring data quality and security, and supporting high-stakes, high-volume data workflows. Experience with educational assessment, scoring, or psychometric data is highly desirable, though not required. This role is both strategic and hands-on. Your success will be measured by the reliability, scalability, and clarity of the data platforms you help create, as well as by your influence on engineering best practices and cross-functional collaboration. |
Our ideal candidate has the following traits:
- An ability to get things done: You are results-driven, action oriented, and persistent. You are a master organizer and project planner who consistently looks ahead and anticipates needs before they arise. You take initiative and are action oriented.
- Creative mindset: You have the ability to quickly adapt and develop creative solutions to communication and logistics challenges. You are not easily discouraged.
- Emotional intelligence: You are highly self-aware and perceptive to the dynamics of key relationships. You are positive, empathetic, flexible, and curious. You naturally gain the respect of your colleagues through your authenticity, warmth, and competence.
- Trustworthy: You are highly ethical, principled, and mission driven, garnering the trust of colleagues and vendors. You exercise discretion and confidentiality.
- The ability to anticipate needs and preferences: You see in advance what a C-Suite executive requires and plans accordingly. Whatever it is, you have already identified the need and addressed it. You will learn to think like your CEO and C-suite and how they process information. This helps you know how to speak and act on the CEO's behalf, allowing them to serve as the chief executive's surrogate at meetings when needed.
EXPECTED DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead the architecture and implementation of enterprise data warehousing solutions supporting assessment delivery, scoring, reporting, and analytics.
- Design and maintain robust data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, validating, and publishing data from multiple internal and external systems.
- Establish and enforce data modeling standards, naming conventions, and documentation to support long-term scalability and usability.
- Partner with assessment, psychometrics, scoring, and reporting teams to ensure data platforms meet functional and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and validation through automated checks, reconciliation processes, and monitoring.
- Design solutions that support secure handling of sensitive student data, including compliance with FERPA and other applicable regulations.
- Evaluate and guide the use of modern data technologies, tools, and cloud-native services.
- Provide technical mentorship and code reviews for engineers working on data and analytics systems.
- Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of production data systems.
- Document architectures, data flows, and operational processes to support transparency and sustainability.
REQUIREMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on data warehousing and data engineering.
- Proven experience designing and operating cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar).
- Strong SQL expertise and experience with data modeling techniques (e.g., dimensional modeling).
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data tools and frameworks.
- Demonstrated understanding of the following concepts as well as practical experience applying these concepts in the real world. Core Java and J2EE principles, syntax, and best practices, Spring Boot, Web Services API development (SOAP and/or REST), JSON, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, (ES5+), Node.js and using code versioning tools such as Git.
- Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and quality assurance practices.
- Experience working with large-scale, complex, or high-stakes data systems.
Highly desirable experience:
- Educational assessment, testing, scoring, or psychometric data.
- Assessment interoperability standards (e.g., OneRoster, CASE, QTI).
- Reporting and analytics for state or district education agencies.
Salary and Benefits:
We offer a competitive annual salary. Our benefits package includes:
- Medical, prescription, and behavioral health coverages.
- Dental coverage.
- Vision coverage.
- Life and AD&D coverage.
- Short-and long-term disability.
- Employee assistance program.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Up to 20 days of PTO per year.
- 14 paid holidays.
- Accrued Sick Leave
- Paid parental leave.
- Remote work and flexible schedules.
New Meridian Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages individuals of all backgrounds and identities to apply. We are excited to receive applications from people in occupations or positions where they are under-represented, particularly from individuals connected to underserved communities. We feel we are strengthened by diverse perspectives.