Lead Engineer, External Data Analytics (Contract)Remote

Position: Lead Engineer, External Data Analytics (Contract) 

Mode: Contract - long term 

Location: Remote

Tech Stack Grid:

Pending  

Why this role matters

Join the team that powers real‑time, mission‑critical exam analytics across the College Board. You’ll lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable analytics platforms and dashboards that serve both external stakeholders (districts & schools) and internal operations, security, and leadership teams, with reliability that holds up under peak exam traffic.

 What you’ll do

Lead engineering for an end‑to‑end analytics platform

• Own technical direction and delivery of cloud‑native data architectures, real‑time telemetry pipelines, APIs, and high‑performance analytics dashboards.
• Partner closely with domain teams on data ingestion, data quality cleanup, security, and data integrity, then drive visualization on dashboards that scale seamlessly.
• Embed observability/monitoring and operational readiness throughout the stack; design for scalability, availability, and reliability from day one.

Provide technical leadership (non‑manager)

• Serve as the technical anchor: guide complex design decisions, mentor engineers, and set high bars for code quality, automation, and performance.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and security to align engineering with high‑stakes exam readiness, capacity planning, and risk mitigation.

Support production during critical periods

• Participate in hypercare/on‑call support during administration seasons; jump in to triage and resolve production issues rapidly when needed.

 What we’re looking for (Required)

• 7+ years designing, building, and operating scalable cloud‑native applications, data pipelines, and analytics platforms in high‑availability environments.
• Full‑stack delivery:
• Front end: TypeScript + React (analytics dashboards/data‑driven UIs).
• Back end: Node.js (TypeScript preferred) and Python for APIs, event‑driven services, and data processing.
• Deep data engineering: design and run ingestion, transformation, and orchestration for real‑time and near‑real‑time workloads; large‑volume data experience.
• ML/AI in production (now required): implemented ML/AI within analytics platforms (e.g., predictive models, anomaly detection, trend insights), including deployment/monitoring (SageMaker Studio or similar).
• AWS expertise: Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, Step Functions, IAM/KMS, CloudWatch; S3 data lakes and performance tuning.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK/CloudFormation, AWS CLI.
• Security & governance: RBAC, secure access patterns, tenant/data protection.
• Observability & telemetry: experience with Grafana and InfluxDB (or similar).
• Excellent communication, structured problem‑solving, and a mission‑driven mindset aligned with expanding educational opportunity; U.S. work authorization required.

Nice to have

• Background building/operating analytics within SaaS and multi‑tenant contexts.
• Familiarity with cell‑based architecture for isolation, fault containment, and horizontal scale.

Team & scope

This Lead Engineer sits in InfoSec & Infrastructure and drives the External Data Analytics platform—including an Operations Hub, Test Security dashboard, and end‑to‑end dashboards that unify data across domains for external and internal users. You’ll coordinate closely with data ingestion teams and the architects/engineers guild while leading technology (not people management).

 Pay Rate: Depending on Experience

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What nextSource Provides:

• Healthcare Benefits including Medical, Prescription, Vision & Dental Coverage | United Healthcare
• Voluntary STD & LTD | New York Life
• 401(k) Retirement Planning | Fidelity
• Discount Program

*You are Eligible to participate in the benefits program if you are considered a full-time employee of nextSource, working at least 30 hours per week on a consistent basis. Your coverage will be effective on the 1st of the month following 60 days of employment.