Data Engineer

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our Data Science, Reporting & Analytics organization. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data pipelines and data platforms that enable  analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings strong technical fundamentals, a collaborative mindset, and a focus on data quality, reliability, and performance in complex enterprise environments, with hands-on experience in Master Data Management (MDM). 

Key Responsibilities 

Data Pipeline Development 
• Design, build, and maintain reliable ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, Informatica (including MDM), SSIS, and cloud-native services on AWS and/or Azure.

• Ensure pipelines are scalable, resilient, and optimized for performance and cost. 

Data Integration, MDM & Modeling 
• Integrate data from multiple transactional systems into curated, analytics-ready data models.

• Support and enhance Informatica MDM solutions, including entity resolution, survivorship rules, hierarchies, and reference data. 
• Apply data modeling best practices to support reporting, dashboards, and downstream analytical use cases. 

Platform Monitoring & Optimization.
• Monitor pipeline execution, data volumes, and latency; proactively identify and resolve performance 
issues. 
• Recommend and implement improvements to data architecture, orchestration, and event-driven pipelines. 

Documentation & Operational Support 
• Maintain clear and accurate technical documentation for pipelines, data models, and MDM 
configurations. 
• Provide operational support for data platforms, including incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

Skills & Qualifications 
• 3–5 years of experience in data engineering or a related role.

• 2–3 years of hands-on experience with Informatica MDM, including data modeling, match/merge rules, and survivorship configurations. 
• Strong proficiency in SQL with experience in Snowflake, SQL Server, and/or Postgres. 
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) 
• Solid understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, and performance tuning concepts.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and diagnostic reporting for data pipelines and MDM jobs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with clear written and verbal communication abilities. 

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with transactional source systems and complex data domains (e.g., customer, user, organization, product). 
• Exposure to analytics, BI, or machine learning workflows that consume curated or MDM-driven datasets. 

• Prior experience in ed-tech or large-scale enterprise data environments is a plus.

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.