Hybrid Data Architect & Engineer – Utah

DataJobs; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Public transit pass

Tuition reduction

Job summary

The University of Utah in Salt Lake City is seeking an experienced data architect and data engineer to design, build, test, implement, and maintain data pipelines that support institutional reporting.

This role combines pipeline development, analytics-focused SQL work, and clear documentation to enable reporting needs across data science, strategic reporting, master data sources, enterprise integrations, and point-in-time snapshots.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience, or Master’s degree and 4 years of work experience in institutional research, business analytics, data science, or a related field.
• Equivalency: 1 year of higher education can substitute for 1 year of directly related work experience.
• Proficiency in querying, manipulating, and analyzing complex datasets.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to present complex data to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.
• Experience with data querying languages such as SQL.
• Proficiency in Python coding.
• Experience working with APIs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Research source data structures, relationships, content, and quality to support requirements discovery.
• Design, build, implement, and maintain data transformation pipelines, processes, and reporting structures for analytics and institutional reporting use cases, including master data sources, enterprise integrations, and point-in-time snapshots.
• Automate and manage data quality audits and correction processes.
• Write complex SQL queries to support analytics needs.
• Develop and maintain data and process documentation, including data flow diagrams, data concepts, keys, definitions, and process steps.
• Share ideas, learn from others, and grow with the team as new methods and tools are evaluated as part of ongoing improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL

Python

Tableau

Power BI

APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Oracle SQL

PeopleSoft

LucidChart

AWS

Glue

Apache Airflow

Job description

The University of Utah in Salt Lake City is seeking an experienced data architect and data engineer to design, build, test, implement, and maintain data pipelines that support institutional reporting.

This role combines pipeline development, analytics-focused SQL work, and clear documentation to enable reporting needs across data science, strategic reporting, master data sources, enterprise integrations, and point-in-time snapshots.