Systems Engineer II-Backend Data Engineer

$80,000 - $87,000/Yr

The University of Texas System - Dallas, TX

Full-time

Onsite - Dallas, TX

Educational Services

About the position

The Systems Engineer II - Backend Data Engineer at the University of Texas at Dallas is responsible for the provisioning, deployment, administration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrading, and patching of IT resources and services. This role is crucial for supporting the BrainHealth Project and other strategic data-centric initiatives by ensuring robust data infrastructures optimized for AI and machine learning applications. The position requires collaboration with software engineers and data scientists to build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, privacy, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, maintaining, and optimizing data infrastructure for ETL processes.
• Building, maintaining, and deploying data products for analytics and data science teams on AWS.
• Preparing raw data in Data Warehouses into consumable datasets for stakeholders.
• Ensuring data accuracy, integrity, privacy, security, and compliance through quality control procedures.
• Maintaining data privacy, security, compliance, and quality with considerations for AI ethics and governance.
• Collaborating with Lead Software Engineers and Data Scientists to optimize systems for efficiency and data flow.
• Redesigning data structures to accommodate new sources and types while maintaining compliance and security standards.

Requirements

• No degree with six years of recent applicable experience.
• Associate Degree with four years of applicable experience.
• Bachelor's Degree with two years of applicable experience.
• Proficiency in GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, Express.js, Docker, and AWS.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases and database design.
• Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience with cloud Data Warehouse solutions.
• Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based solutions and services.
• Experience in database management using PostgreSQL.
• Skills in developing and managing RESTful web APIs.
• Strong understanding of data integrity, optimization, and security.
• Ability to build and maintain efficient, scalable data pipelines.
• Proficiency in data pipeline and workflow management tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Two years of experience in backend or data engineering.