Data & Software Specialist

Are you interested in working with our dynamic and progressive school division to pursue excellence in education for students, professional learning opportunities, a flexible health benefits package, and a workplace that embraces diversity? The Parkland School Division (PSD) is a large progressive school jurisdiction serving Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Fort Chipewyan, and Parkland County. PSD meets the diverse educational needs of over 12,000 rural and urban students among 23 sites, including outreach schools and alternative education programs.

Our values guide us: we strive for purposeful, authentic, and responsive learning opportunities while aiming for excellence in achievement. PSD values trustworthy, respectful relationships that promote resilience as students and staff work toward our ultimate goal:
Student Success & Well-being.

This is a permanent, full‑time Data & Software Specialist position located at the Center for Education in Stony Plain, Alberta. The role is a highly specialized hybrid position that focuses on connecting unstructured document records with structured transactional data to drive the digital transformation of our division.

The position functions as a specialized Software Development and Automation role. Embedded within the Instructional Services team and acting as a direct link to the Information Technology department, the specialist will bring full‑stack software development expertise to turn innovative ideas into practical web and application realities. The role centers on people: collaborating with leaders across schools and departments to understand challenges and build tools that simplify workflows, reduce human error, improve daily workloads, and enhance professional practices.

• Software Development, AI Tools & Practical Automation
• Full‑Stack App & Tool Development: design, prototype, and deploy custom web applications, user interfaces, and digital tools addressing operational challenges.
• AI Orchestration & Workflow Automation: design and deploy custom AI workflows, collaborative agents, and automated processes to alleviate administrative burdens and improve staff experience.
• AI‑Accelerated Development: leverage AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, LLM APIs) to write, review, and engineer clean code (Python, JavaScript, or similar) at high velocity.
• System Integration & API Engineering: architect and maintain secure webhooks, REST APIs, and middleware to connect modern software applications and generative AI tools with enterprise systems.
• Process Engineering: optimize workflows, digital forms, data retention, and automated routing using enterprise content management.
• Cross‑Platform Integration: write optimized SQL queries and bridge records management with other analytical pipelines to resolve operational bottlenecks.
• Strategic Project Management & Change Leadership: own the lifecycle of technical initiatives from intake to post‑implementation review, aligning with the division’s strategic plan and school‑year priorities.
• Predictive Analytics & Data Democratization: build data models (Power BI, DOMO, Data Studio) to provide predictive indicators for leadership decision‑making.
• Advanced ETL Pipeline Engineering: ingest, clean, and blend complex datasets from disparate relational databases and applications into dynamic reporting layers.
• Empowering Leadership: create executive‑ready dashboards and workflow tracking metrics to enable data‑informed decisions.

Post‑secondary diploma or degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related technical discipline.

• 5+ years of progressive professional experience in software development, web/app development, database programming, or enterprise solutions automation.

• Software & Web Development (Must‑Have): practical proficiency in standard programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Type Script with an AI‑first mindset.
• Strong SQL Foundations (Must‑Have): advanced comfort authoring, debugging, and optimizing relational database queries, views, and…