Data Analytics Engineer — Hybrid (Higher Ed, SQL)

DataJobs; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

DataJobs in Austin seeks a data engineer to design and deliver integrated data solutions that support UT Austin academic, research, and administrative decision-making.

You will develop relational databases, gather business requirements with partners, implement data structures, and enable dashboards and reports for university decision-making. This is a hybrid role based in Austin with strong SQL, PostgreSQL, Power BI, and Tableau expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong SQL skills to query large databases, manipulate and validate data, implement business logic, and analyze data.
• Excellent knowledge of databases, data flows, and data manipulation across operational and analytical contexts.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into consumable insights using varied tools and techniques.
• Experience communicating with stakeholders in higher education or enterprise environments.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop, code, validate, and implement relational databases and data structures for analytics.
• Gather business requirements with partners and develop/refine business logic.
• Work with technical partners to locate, clean, and orchestrate source data.
• Translate and transform business logic into a high-scale database environment for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
• Enable outputs including reports, dashboards, and tools for university decision-making.
• Design database structures that support meaningful data visualizations and interactive tools.
• Apply data analytics and engineering best practices: validation, testing, deployment, data mining, version control, documentation, automation.
• Support ad hoc data requests and special projects; collaborate across teams and also work independently.

Skills

SQL querying

Data modeling

Data visualization

Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or equivalent

Tools

SQL

PostgreSQL

Power BI

Tableau

UT Data Hub

Job description

DataJobs in Austin seeks a data engineer to design and deliver integrated data solutions that support UT Austin academic, research, and administrative decision-making.

You will develop relational databases, gather business requirements with partners, implement data structures, and enable dashboards and reports for university decision-making. This is a hybrid role based in Austin with strong SQL, PostgreSQL, Power BI, and Tableau expertise.