CEMI Opportunities
As CEMI progresses, we’re looking for Cornell colleagues from across the university to help shape this transformation. Opportunities within CEMI are not limited to technical roles; they span a range of areas including administration, finance, communications, change management, data analysis, and project coordination. Whether your strengths lie in problem-solving, collaboration, or innovation, your skills can make a meaningful contribution.
Please note: These are structured, limited-term appointments—not gig or short-term side opportunities. Accepting one of these roles means formally transitioning from your current position into the term role for its duration.
Available Positions
Business Intelligence Analyst II (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 95707
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Business Intelligence Analyst II serves as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating business needs into clear and actionable data and reporting solutions. This CEMI role requires strong business domain understanding, analytical thinking, and communication skills, with working knowledge of data platforms and tools to support analytics and reporting initiatives. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Business Intelligence Developer (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 95787
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Business Intelligence Developer for the CEMI program is responsible for the creation of data warehousing and reporting solutions utilizing the SAP tools across multiple systems including SAP HANA, Business Warehouse (BW) and Data Services. Create the backend data warehouse infrastructure utilizing various SAP ETL options available, and reporting layer to ensure data integrity, security, and report/data load performance. Engages with business analysts and subject matter experts to gather and document requirements, with minimum supervision. Convert requirements into professional reporting solutions. Ensures the quality of junior developer work products, ability to propose and develop innovative solutions to complex problems/user requirements, by providing technical support and guidance to junior developers. Demonstrates proficiency in backend and/or front-end development objects. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Change Manager for Data & Analytics (CEMI)
Job ID: WDR-00060705
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full Time
The CEMI Change Manager, Data & Analytics plays a key role in supporting the successful delivery and adoption of initiatives across the Cornell Enterprise Management Initiative (CEMI), including the Data and Analytics Program and other strategic program workstreams. Reporting to and working in partnership with the Assistant Director of Change Management, this position serves as a change management partner for the Data and Analytics workstream while also providing support for broader CEMI change initiatives as needed. Approximately 75% of the role’s effort will focus on Data and Analytics change-related activities, with up to 25% allocated to other CEMI change management priorities. The role ensures alignment with university-wide organizational change management strategies, standards, methodologies, and governance practices while advancing adoption, readiness, and stakeholder engagement across the CEMI portfolio.The Change Manager collaborates closely with the CEMI Program Team, Data and Analytics leaders, project stakeholders, and vendor partners to assess organizational impacts, coordinate readiness activities, and support the successful adoption of new processes, technologies, services, and ways of working. This role focuses on the people side of change by preparing, supporting, and enabling faculty, staff, and leaders to successfully transition through change while minimizing disruption and maximizing business value. This is a 2-year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Cloud Data Platform Engineer II (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 95708
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Cloud Data Platform Engineer II is responsible for supporting and maintaining cloud-based data platforms, including system administration, data integration, and backend development. This role focuses on managing platform performance, security, and data pipelines while supporting scalable data solutions across cloud data warehouses. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Data Governance Analyst III (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 95705
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Data Integration Engineer II is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data integration solutions and backend data pipelines across enterprise systems and cloud platforms. This role focuses on ETL/ELT development, data modeling, and data movement to support analytics and reporting. The position works independently on moderately complex tasks and supports multiple technologies including SAP and cloud data warehouses.. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Data Integration Engineer II (CEMI) – 1 of 2
Job Requisition ID: 95710
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Data Integration Engineer II is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data integration solutions and backend data pipelines across enterprise systems and cloud platforms. This role focuses on ETL/ELT development, data modeling, and data movement to support analytics and reporting. The position works independently on moderately complex tasks and supports multiple technologies including SAP and cloud data warehouses. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Data Integration Engineer II (CEMI) – 2 of 2
Job Requisition ID: 95788
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Data Integration Engineer II is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data integration solutions and backend data pipelines across enterprise systems and cloud platforms. This role focuses on ETL/ELT development, data modeling, and data movement to support analytics and reporting. The position works independently on moderately complex tasks and supports multiple technologies including SAP and cloud data warehouses. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Data Modeler (CEMI)
Job ID: WDR-00059144
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full Time
The Data Modeler (CEMI) serves as a senior individual contributor responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of enterprise data models and analytics solutions supporting institutional reporting and decision-making. This position leads the design of dimensional data models, data warehouses, and data marts, translating complex business requirements into scalable, high-performance data structures. This position will analyze source data structures and business processes from which they will build fact and dimension tables in a database. This role requires ability to work with SQL and to understand database fundamentals. This role will also be involved with the testing and validation of both data and models. The role works collaboratively with business stakeholders, data architects, developers, and analysts to define requirements, design solutions, and ensure data quality and usability across reporting platforms. The Data Modeler functions as a technical authority and subject matter expert, guiding data design standards, mentoring peers, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture and performance expectations. Work is highly complex, involving multiple systems (e.g., ERP, data lake environments) and requires advanced analytical, technical, and problem-solving capabilities. This is a 2-year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
HR Benefits Associate II (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 94856
Location: New York, New York
Job Type: Full time
The HR Benefits Associate II (CEMI) coordinates day-to-day employee/retiree benefit plan administration, organizes annual health fairs, assists with open enrollment and coordinates health and wellness and retirement programs. Processes Children Tuition Scholarship applications. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Identity Management Developer (CEMI)
Job ID: WDR-00059139
Location: Ithaca, New York (Remote opportunity available)
Job Type: Full time
The Identity Management Developer (CEMI) reports to the Assistant Director for Identity & Access Management and provides cybersecurity‑focused technical leadership and engineering expertise in support of Cornell University’s Identity & Access Management services within the university IT Security Office (ITSO). This position plays a key role in ensuring the secure, reliable, and effective delivery of enterprise authentication, authorization, and directory services that underpin the university’s academic, research, and administrative operations. This is a 2-year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance. No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.
Master Data Management Analyst III (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 95706
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Master Data Management (MDM) Analyst II is responsible for managing and improving data quality, consistency, and governance across enterprise systems, with a primary focus on Informatica MDM. This role leads MDM implementation efforts, working closely with business and technical stakeholders to define data standards, rules, and governance processes to support reliable operations and analytics. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Salesforce Operations Manager (CEMI)
Job ID: WDR-00059773
Location: Ithaca, New York (Remote)
Job Type: Full Time
The Salesforce Operations Manager (CEMI) will provide operational leadership for the Salesforce team, overseeing workload management, sprint planning, service delivery, production support, platform enhancements, integrations, data integrity, security, and compliance. The role is accountable for ensuring team effectiveness, fostering professional development, establishing operational best practices, and promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer-focused service. This is a hands-on operational leadership role focused on maintaining a stable, scalable, and secure Salesforce environment while aligning platform capabilities with institutional priorities and delivering consistent value to campus partners. This is a 2-year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance. No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.
Salesforce Platform Developer (Kindsight Ascend) – (CEMI)
Job ID: WDR-00058406
Location: Ithaca, New York
Job Type: Full Time
The Salesforce Platform Developer (Kindsight Ascend) plays a critical role within the Cornell Enterprise Modernization Initiative (CEMI), with primary responsibility supporting the Donor Engagement and Experience Project (DEEP)—a major, multi‑year effort to modernize and unify development and engagement technology across Cornell’s Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and the Lab of Ornithology. Cornell seeks a highly skilled Salesforce Platform Developer with experience supporting Kindsight Ascend and its associated data model to contribute to a large‑scale, multicampus transformation that consolidates‑ development and engagement capabilities on a single Salesforce platform. This is a 3-year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Senior IT Project Manager DEEP (CEMI)
Job ID: WDR-00058446
Location: Ithaca, New York or Remote
Job Type: Full Time
The DEEP Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for providing high level of project management within the Cornell Enterprise Modernization Initiative (CEMI), with primary responsibility for the CEMI Donor Engagement and Experience Project (DEEP)—a major, multi‑year effort to modernize and unify donor and engagement technology across Cornell’s Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and the Lab of Ornithology. Senior IT Project Managers are responsible for leading large‑scale, complex, and strategically important technology projects that support the institution’s academic, research, and administrative missions. This role manages initiatives with broad campus impact, requiring coordination across decentralized units, diverse stakeholder groups, and cross‑functional technical teams. Senior IT Project Managers provide leadership throughout the full project lifecycle—initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing projects—while ensuring that all work aligns with institutional priorities, standards, and policies. This is a 3-year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.
Senior Project Manager-OSPM (CEMI)
Job Requisition ID: 95702
Location: Midtown, NYC
Job Type: Full Time
The Senior Project Manager in the Office of Service Portfolio Managment (OSPM) leads the planning, executing and implementation of multiple large and complex projects and programs related to the CEMI program. Maintains complete control on project scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issues and facilitates timely decisions to maintain project schedule and budget. Provides management with regular project updates, creates and maintains trusting relationships, identifies and manages project issues, identifies project risks early, and assists by providing prudent and timely recommendations for risk response. In addition, supports, trains, and educates Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and non-PPM staff in all aspects of project management processes. Partners with stakeholders to collect feedback on potential improvements and helps create project management processes catered to the unique culture of Weill Cornell Medicine. This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.