Data Integration Specialist

School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential. Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives.

Our district and school partners agree: scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and that Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge. We’re experiencing exciting growth as a company, while doubling down on our mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology. We serve districts and charter school organizations across 15+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that lead the education technology industry. This growth has been driven by our strong product-market fit, deep understanding of education, and commitment to customer success.

About the Role

We are seeking a Data Integrations Specialist to ensure that schools and districts can seamlessly integrate their data with Timely’s scheduling technology.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the ingestion, transformation, and export of data between district systems and the Timely data model and product.

• Collaborate with our customer success team, SIS representatives, and district IT staff to design, plan, and execute data integration workflows.

• Work with different stakeholders (engineering, school success and customers) to execute integration workflows, troubleshoot challenges, and support successful data integration.

• Oversee and ensure the accuracy, security, and scalability of data pipelines, implementing process improvements and automation where possible.

• Develop and maintain best practices, documentation, and institutional knowledge around data integrations.

• Lead discovery work for integrating with new SISs, building key relationships with customers and potential SIS partners.

• Own the scaling of the data integrations function, melding product, technology, process, and organizational improvements to serve customers more effectively and efficiently.

• Support team growth by onboarding new team members and continuously improving data integration processes.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in data integration, data analysis, data engineering, or a related field.

• Proficiency with multiple data technologies & tools such as Excel, SQL, REST APIs, NoSQL, BigQuery, etc. Ability to program with Python is preferred but ability to learn and onboard quickly is also acceptable.

• Prior experience with data extract/transform/load (ETL) pipelines.

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong preference for experience with K-12 district and school data systems, especially Student Information Systems (SIS’s).

• Experience scaling data integration processes in a growing organization.

• Familiarity with school scheduling systems or SIS platforms, particularly hands‑on experience working with one or more K–12 SIS platforms (e.g., PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward).

• Strong understanding of SIS data structures: students, courses, enrollments, sections, staffing, rooms.

• Familiarity with REST APIs and basic scripting for API-based data pulls.

Why Join Us

• Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education.

• Be part of a growing, financially healthy company with a proven product.

• Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision and life insurance, unlimited PTO, and professional development opportunities including free access to online learning programs.