Data Integration Specialist

The role

You will connect Student Information Systems to the Timely scheduling platform. You will own data ingestion, transformation, and exchange, while building scripts and tools to automate integration workflows.

What you will do

• Own the ingestion, transformation, and exchange of data between specific school systems and the Timely application.
• Oversee and ensure the accuracy, security, and scalability of customer data pipelines.
• Collaborate with customer success team, SIS representatives, and district IT staff to design and execute data integration workflows.
• Develop and maintain best practices, documentation, and institutional knowledge around data integrations.
• Build and test lightweight scripts and tools to automate repetitive integration work.
• Lead discovery work for integrating with new SISs.
• Contribute to the scaling of the data integrations function.
• Support team growth by onboarding new team members.

Required qualifications

• Deep expertise with at least one Student Information System
• Proven experience in data integration in K12 education, school or district data administration, data analysis, or data engineering
• Proficiency with data tools such as Excel or Google Sheets, SQL, REST APIs, and SIS import/export and reporting tools.
• Experience moving data between systems, whether through SIS imports and exports, ETL pipelines, or API-based integrations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a customer-centric approach.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote startup environment.
• Demonstrated ability leading technical conversations with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and an appetite for paving a new path where no established process exists yet.

Nice to have

• hands-on experience loading and manipulating student and teacher scheduling data into a SIS
• Willingness to learn some programming to advance your work, such as using the command line and using Claude Code to build and test Python scripts
• Prior software engineering experience is helpful
• Familiarity with REST APIs and basic scripting for API-based data pulls
• Understanding of more general SIS data structures: students, courses, enrollments, sections, staffing, rooms

Benefits

• health insurance
• parental leave
• 401(k)
• unlimited PTO
• access to co-working
• equity in a fast-growing startup

About the company

Timely builds tools to help schools create high quality schedules using AI technology and expert school schedulers. They serve districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states.