American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)

Director

• Define the details of and execute the data platform & analytics strategy, aligned to business objectives and overall data/analytics senior leadership vision and strategy.
• Collaborate on the roadmap with data & analytics product management and owns delivery of roadmap.
• Build and lead high-performing data, data platform, analytics, and compliance/operational reporting team.
• Drive cloud-native batch ELT architecture and event-driven ingestion patterns.
• Design and implement processes and systems for regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) in partnership with the Data Management & Governance team.
• Establish platform governance for performance, cost optimization, and security compliance.
• Drives design and implementation of scalable, resilient data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Oversee data modeling standards (e.g. dimensional, Data Vault) and enforce best practices for schema evolution.
• Ensure observability, lineage, and quality frameworks are embedded in pipelines and orchestration.
• Implement data quality SLAs, monitoring, and incident response processes.
• Enable self-service analytics and data product development through delivering analytic ready data including robust BI semantic models/certified datasets.
• Evaluate and create adoption strategies around relevant emerging technologies.
• Foster a culture of automation and reliability.
• Owns budgeting and forecasting for the data & analytics platform along with vendor and partner management.
• Plans work and team capacity with peer leaders and data product owners/management.
• Create consistent framework for analytics and reporting across all business units with clear understanding of definitions and measures.
• Interacts, consults with and influences senior management at various levels of the organization, with various internal organizations (e.g. management, finance, academics, operations, legal).
• Act as liaison between the business operations and available data, working on various initiatives to maintain visibility and understanding of the data and decisions being made.
• Ensure timely and accurate development of analytics solutions as well as fulfilling ad hoc analytics needs for leadership.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering team for data acquisition/ingestion.
• Mentor the team and data/analytics/reporting leads and develop succession plans.
• Demonstrate staff planning and assessment skills, and strong leadership skills including consensus-building, conflict resolution, motivation and decision-making.
• Present findings, analyses, and recommendations to team and senior management.
• Promote identification of best practices and fosters cross functional sharing of initiatives, innovation and best practices.
• Drive strong success metric definition and adherence including analytic stakeholder satisfaction on consultative and delivery efforts, increasing adoption of self-service, rationalizing and reducing report sprawl to improve user and adoption of analytical best practices and standards, platform reliability, time to analytic ready data, time to first pipeline, cost efficiency, and adoption of architectural and platform standards.

Director, Data Platform, Analytics & Reporting

Accountant

• Provides management with financial information by researching and analyzing accounts.
• Completes working papers and reports associated with the Month-End/Quarter-End/Year-End close process for all business units.
• Maintains and balances accounts by inputting data, scheduling required jobs and verifying outputs.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare general ledger entries.
• Maintains records and files and complete assigned work papers.
• Completes reconciliations of cash and operating activities.
• Analyzes open balances and allowance for doubtful accounts.
• Ensures expenses are accounted for in the proper period, assigns applicable account numbers and reconciles accounts.
• Answers accounting and financial questions by researching and interpreting data.
• Identifies and records fixed asset additions, analyzes assets for disposals and impairments, and produces reports as requested.
• Provides management with monthly and quarterly analytics and variance analysis.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and presents recommendations for implementation.
• Participates in audits to include Sarbanes-Oxley, quarterly reviews and annual audits conducted by internal and external auditors.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Interacts with other teams to achieve daily goals.

Staff Accountant

• Maintains and balances accounts by inputting data, scheduling required jobs and verifying outputs.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare general ledger entries including, but not limited to accounts receivable, revenue, and deferred revenue.
• Maintains records and files and complete assigned work papers.
• Completes reconciliations of cash and operating activities.
• Analyzes open balances and allowance for doubtful accounts.
• Ensures expenses are accounted for in the proper period, assigns applicable account numbers and reconciles accounts.
• Answers accounting and financial questions by researching and interpreting data.
• Identifies and records fixed asset additions, analyzes assets for disposals and impairments, and produces reports as requested.
• Provides management with monthly and quarterly analytics and variance analysis.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and presents recommendations for implementation.
• Participates in audits to include Sarbanes-Oxley, quarterly reviews and annual audits conducted by internal and external auditors.

Solutions Engineer

• Apply expertise in existing, new, and emerging data & analytics techniques and technologies
• Develop data & analytics solutions and designs for complex data, analytical, technical, and business problems
• Provide technical thought leadership and hands-on solutions design and direction for enterprise data solutions and products
• Ensure solutions are designed, implemented, and drive analytical value as expected
• Establish best practices for the design, build, and support of on-premises and cloud applications
• Research and establish technical, design patterns, and tools best practices and standardize across software engineering teams
• Create and review architecture, solution design, data and integration documents

Solutions Architect – Data & Analytics

• Architecture and solutions design, blueprinting, and technical roadmap utilizing on-premise and Cloud technologies such as Microsoft, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, Snowflake, and others as/when needed
• Data integration, batch and near-real time, with Salesforce, Boomi, OutSystems, ERP, BPM, Azure RPA, and .NET custom applications and systems
• Ability to quickly grasp Business initiative, understand business process, and determine technical solution options that meet objectives
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture to ensure solutions design supports overall enterprise architecture direction
• Establishes best practices for the design, build, and support of on-premises and cloud applications
• Provides hands-on mentoring and coaching of architecture, solutions design, and development practices
• Provides change leadership when implementing new standards and practices across the team
• Ensures the solution design solves data privacy (including PII and GDPR), data management, and governance as well as encompassing reliability, scalability, and security for a 24x7 enterprise
• Researches and establishes technical, design, patterns, and tools best practices and standardizes across software engineering teams
• Creates and reviews architecture, solution design, data and integration documents for delivery teams and Architecture Review Board
• Brings modern concepts to the team such as data product thinking and strives for data delivery processes designed for agility
• Builds prototypes and/or assists software engineers with coding and troubleshooting both on-premises and cloud-based applications
• Identifies/matures best practices Cloud and API-led designs, microservices, CI/CD, automated testing (regression and load), SCM/Release strategies, and critical operational support
• Adheres to and promotes compliance with policies and procedures
• Designs cloud cost optimization, forecasting, and monitoring and alerting
• Develops solutions and contributes code as and when necessary
• Recommends business and architectural processes and design options to optimize technical solutions
• Performs other duties as assigned.