UnsupportedClassVersionError with mysql jdbc driver in AWS Data Pipeline

Question

I am trying to run a Data Pipeline job in AWS. I added the field "Jdbc Driver Jar Uri" and placed the jar file in my s3 bucket, per instructions here, because it seems "Connector/J" that is installed by AWS Data Pipeline does not work.

I'm using mysql-connector-java-8.0.23 and my mysql database version is the same.

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/mysql/jdbc/Driver : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) 
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:808) 
  at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) 
  at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:443) 
  at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:65) 
  at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) 
  at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:349) 
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) 
  at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:348) 
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:430) 
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:363) 
  at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) 
  at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:278) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.database.JdbcDriverInitializer.getDriver(JdbcDriverInitializer.java:75) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.database.ConnectionFactory.getRdsDatabaseConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:158) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.database.ConnectionFactory.getConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:74) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.database.ConnectionFactory.getConnectionWithCredentials(ConnectionFactory.java:302) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.connector.SqlDataNode.createConnection(SqlDataNode.java:100) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.connector.SqlDataNode.getConnection(SqlDataNode.java:94) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.connector.SqlDataNode.prepareStatement(SqlDataNode.java:162) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.connector.SqlInputConnector.open(SqlInputConnector.java:49) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.connector.SqlInputConnector.<init>(SqlInputConnector.java:26) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.connector.SqlDataNode.getInputConnector(SqlDataNode.java:79) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.activity.copy.SingleThreadedCopyActivity.processAll(SingleThreadedCopyActivity.java:47) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.activity.copy.SingleThreadedCopyActivity.runActivity(SingleThreadedCopyActivity.java:35) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.activity.CopyActivity.runActivity(CopyActivity.java:22) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.objects.AbstractActivity.run(AbstractActivity.java:16) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.taskrunner.TaskPoller.executeRemoteRunner(TaskPoller.java:136) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.taskrunner.TaskPoller.executeTask(TaskPoller.java:105) 
  at amazonaws.datapipeline.taskrunner.TaskPoller$1.run(TaskPoller.java:81) 
  at private.com.amazonaws.services.datapipeline.poller.PollWorker.executeWork(PollWorker.java:76) 
  at private.com.amazonaws.services.datapipeline.poller.PollWorker.run(PollWorker.java:53) 
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

I've looked at this question for a solution, but I wasn't able to figure out how to adapt those answers to solving it in AWS Data Pipeline.

Can someone explain what steps need to be taken to fix this ClassVersion error?