Senior Data Engineer

Job Posting Title:

Senior Data Engineer

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Hiring Department:

University Development Office

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Oct 01, 2025

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

AUSTIN, TX

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Job Details:

General Notes

About The University of Texas at Austin

What starts here changes the world.

The University of Texas at Austin, founded in 1883, ranks among the 40 best universities in the world with top national programs across 19 colleges and schools. By creating educational opportunities for all and leading cutting-edge research at scale, the University fosters positive social change, technological advancement, and economic progress showing the world that change really does start here.

Following our 10-year strategic plan, UT will become the world’s highest-impact public research university, unleashing knowledge, opportunity and innovation from the heart of Texas.

Learn more about UT’s mission and values, leadership and Change Starts Here strategic plan.

Why Join Texas Development?

The University of Texas at Austin is on the front lines of the future: sparking the imagination, driving discovery and transforming lives. And it’s only possible because generous supporters believe in the power and promise of our state’s flagship university to change the world.

Together, through one of the largest fundraising efforts in our state’s history, we will support our people, amplify the unmatched potential of our place, and lead innovation through world-changing pursuits. With nearly $5 billion raised over the past six years, Texas Development is quickly becoming one of the best fundraising programs in higher education.

Texas Development is a dynamic community of more than 450 fundraising professionals across the Forty Acres. We strive to reach the highest levels of achievement and success in all that we do by creating meaningful and powerful experiences for our donors.

Join us and change the world.

Benefits

The University provides a competitive benefits package that includes insurance and retirement benefits in addition to other programs and services.

Texas Development supports growth by offering professional development opportunities that help every team member accomplish their goals, enrich their skillset and deepen their engagement with UT.

Purpose

As a member of the Data Engineering and Infrastructure (DEI) team, the Sr. Data Engineer will develop and maintain our ETL pipelines, share ownership of end-to-end data quality, and will work closely with the Applications Development, Records Management, and Reporting and Analytics teams to ensure that data assets relating to both applications and business intelligence systems (warehouse, reporting system, etc.) are accurate, consistent, and reliable. The Sr. Data Engineer will be a key contributor to the University Development Office’s upcoming new CRM (Customer Resource Management) implementation and new Azure cloud-based data warehouse.

Responsibilities

• Clean and append data from 3rd party vendors into application layer databases.

• Code utility programs that support data appends and bulk files.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure and performant integration/ETL pipelines from source system to DW/BI environment.

• Ensure high quality of data delivered to internal stakeholders and users within the University Development Office.

• Identify, rectify, and continually improve quality of data in current and future CRM.

• Identify, architect, and implement process improvements to data systems.

• Monitor and troubleshoot data loads.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

• 2+ years of experience with database management

• 2+ years of experience with SQL development