Data Engineer II: Pipelines, Semantics & AI-Ready Data

University of Florida; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Florida in Gainesville, FL is seeking an intermediate Data Engineer II to join the Data Platform and Analytics team within UFIT. You will design, build, and optimize data pipelines, contribute to semantic data models, and collaborate with business analysts to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

This on-site role emphasizes data governance, metadata management, and data integration across enterprise systems, with opportunities to work on AI-enabled data applications and

Qualifications

• Associate's degree and two years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and four years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data solutions including data pipelines, metadata management, and data repository creation.
• Troubleshoot and optimize existing data pipelines; review data synchronization processes for accuracy.
• Support development of semantic models and ontologies to enable AI, ML, knowledge graph, and NLP data applications.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of data models, near-real-time and batch pipelines, and reporting data models; ensure quality control.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Metadata management

Data governance

AI/ML concepts

Stakeholder communication

Education

Associate's degree

Job description

University of Florida in Gainesville, FL is seeking an intermediate Data Engineer II to join the Data Platform and Analytics team within UFIT. You will design, build, and optimize data pipelines, contribute to semantic data models, and collaborate with business analysts to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

This on-site role emphasizes data governance, metadata management, and data integration across enterprise systems, with opportunities to work on AI-enabled data applications and