NWEA has an exciting new opening for Developer, Custom Reports at our downtown Portland location. This is a full-time opportunity with competitive compensation and generous benefits package.
Founded by educators close to 40 years ago, Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment, Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®). More than 6,800 partners in U.S. school districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer prekindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that fosters educators’ ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth, educators currently use NWEA assessments and items with nearly 10 million students. We are searching for talented individuals who desire to make a difference in education by demonstrating a commitment to our mission: Partnering to help all kids learn®.
Position Summary:
The Custom Reports Developer works within Northwest Evaluation Association’s Product Engineering/Technical Operations Department as a key member of the Custom Reporting team. As a member of this team, you will participate in the creation, verification and delivery of reporting solutions for partners and educational institutions to supplement our existing reporting products. This position is also responsible for the development of key infrastructure and/or architectural components, processes and tools used by the Custom Reporting Team.
All Custom Reporting team members work together to refine and improve process, ensuring that practices, products and people are striving for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Account Managers and other members of the Custom Reporting team to understand the data needed, not just the data requested, and develop a reporting solution to meet the needs and time/cost restrictions
- Create code to develop solutions, run code and produce reports, and work with the team to refine requirements and fix any bugs
- Document the design of all developed reports, queries, scripts, and test plans
- Participate in the evaluation and recommendation of software and tools to continually improve the capability of the reporting environment
- Review individual reports for data accuracy and formatting as well as meeting documented requirements
- Maintain servers and databases used by Custom Reporting and develop solutions to improve the Custom Reporting Infrastructure
- Develop and coordinate automation tasks that enable the rapid and repeated delivery of Custom Reports
- Develop reusable code and functions to improve efficiency
- Communicate effectively with external partners and Account Managers to gather reporting requirements, schedule work, and find answers to questions
- Capture data and report metrics around custom report requests and workload in order to inform process improvement and improvements with NWEA products
- Provide data to Product Management and Product Engineering to inform NWEA’s roadmap for reporting
- Create and optimize stored procedures
- Implement SQL Agent jobs
- Develop and maintain SSRS reports
- Perform ad-hoc SQL queries in support of various business initiatives
- Perform quality assurance testing of reports, and facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions. Ensure quality of the reports prior to delivery.