Data Engineer II

🇺🇸 Gainesville, FL 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $82K - $95K 💻 Data Science 🗓️ August 12th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

UF Information Technology (UFIT) is hiring a Data Engineer II. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining data solutions, optimizing data pipelines, and supporting metadata and semantic management to enhance data accessibility and usability across the organization. The position requires collaborating with customers, business analysts, and team members to convert business requirements into technical solutions.

Highlights

Design and maintain data pipelines, data accuracy, replication, transformation, and metadata management within UF OneLake data repositories.
Troubleshoot and optimize performance of existing data pipelines, review audit processes for data synchronization.
Support enterprise metadata management and develop semantic models to enable AI, machine learning, and natural-language data applications.
Assist development and maintenance of near-real-time and batch data pipelines, dimensional/star schema design, and operational reporting models.
Proficient in IT systems, development lifecycles, quality assurance, testing, and data integration methodologies.
Required qualifications: Associate's degree with two years of relevant experience, or high school diploma with four years of relevant experience.
Preferred skills include understanding data pipeline methodologies, database concepts, object-based storage, metadata management, data governance, and ability to translate business concepts into data and semantic models.
Salary range is $82,000 to $95,000, commensurate with education and experience.
Work visa sponsorship is not available; position requires Level 2 Criminal Background Screening.
UFIT comprises nine departments supporting enterprise IT systems, including data platform and analytics, serving the University of Florida community and surrounding regions.