Analytics Engineering Co-Op

Summary

Risepoint is an education technology company that helps regional universities launch and grow online programs for modern learners. The Analytics Engineering Co-Op will build and standardize data models and semantic layer components, improve data quality, and bridge the needs of Student Success Center Analytics and Business Technology to deliver governed, actionable data products.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data models in Databricks that consolidate scattered logic into a defensible source of truth for our student success center (SSC) reporting and analysis
• Standardize semantic layer components and metric definitions so operational metrics mean one thing in every report, dashboard, and leadership deck
• Improve data quality at the transformation layer — validation, freshness, and reconciliation checks, so we find problems before a leader does
• Partner with Business Technology on upstream data sources, pipeline changes, and governance, acting as the connective tissue between the two teams
• Turn a recurring manual report into a modeled data product in Power BI that maintains itself, then quantify the hours you gave back
• Document what you build — lineage, definitions, and the reasoning, so it's usable by someone who wasn't in the room. Contribute new documentation for existing deliverables, ensure consistency across documentation, and simplify the overall approach while retaining context
• Recommend, don't just execute. When you see a better way to model something, we want to hear it, and we'll give you room to try it

Skills

• Working SQL ability. You can write joins and aggregations, follow someone else's query, and are confident with debugging and resolving open data issues within queries, notebooks, and jobs
• Functional Python experience. We do not require you to have advanced proficiency with Python, but have the confidence to navigate existing scripts, workflows, and understand how to approach and implement solutions with the help of AI
• Foundational database management concepts. Keys, grains, normalization, and a basic sense of what makes a table well designed and structured
• Strong analytical judgment and experience in a real-world business setting
• Demonstrated experience working with ambiguity to drive measurable outcomes to stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholder cohorts
• Prior experience working within a data engineering and/or analytics environment alongside others
• Databricks, Snowflake, or any cloud data platform application knowledge and experience
• Confidence with technical documentation and overall project management within an engineering framework
• Applicable knowledge working with data transformation tools, application and confidence with AI-tooling in an analytics workflow, and overall confidence navigating in and out of engineering workflows

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Working SQL ability. You can write joins and aggregations, follow someone else's query, and are confident with debugging and resolving open data issues within queries, notebooks, and jobs
• Functional Python experience. We do not require you to have advanced proficiency with Python, but have the confidence to navigate existing scripts, workflows, and understand how to approach and implement solutions with the help of AI
• Foundational database management concepts. Keys, grains, normalization, and a basic sense of what makes a table well designed and structured
• Strong analytical judgment and experience in a real-world business setting
• Demonstrated experience working with ambiguity to drive measurable outcomes to stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholder cohorts

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience working within a data engineering and/or analytics environment alongside others
• Databricks, Snowflake, or any cloud data platform application knowledge and experience
• Confidence with technical documentation and overall project management within an engineering framework
• Applicable knowledge working with data transformation tools, application and confidence with AI-tooling in an analytics workflow, and overall confidence navigating in and out of engineering workflows

Benefits

• Full-time co-op experience, 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday
• Co-op duration from January 2027 through June 2027, with some flexibility on start and end to accommodate academic schedules
• Hands-on, real-world exposure
• Opportunity to make material impact on strategy and business outcomes