Data Engineer for Space Data & AI Readiness (Remote)

Mclaurin Aerospace; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid insurance

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

11 paid holidays annually

Generous PTO

Job summary

Mclaurin Aerospace seeks a Data Engineer to join the JETS II contract team at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. The role focuses on designing data models, maintaining metadata, ensuring data quality, and supporting analytics and AI readiness for space exploration initiatives.

Qualifications include a engineering degree and 2–5 years of experience, with strong skills in data modeling, governance, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• 2–5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong data modeling and metadata management skills.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical/data solutions.
• Experience supporting governance, stewardship, and cross-functional coordination.
• Good documentation and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience preparing data for analytics or AI initiatives.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage parallel workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Design and refine logical/physical data models and schemas.
• Maintain metadata repositories, taxonomies, glossaries, and authoritative definitions.
• Develop and monitor data quality rules, metrics, and remediation plans.
• Document lineage, mappings, interfaces, retention, and lifecycle processes.
• Support integration requirements, exchange analysis, and source-to-target designs.
• Assist with analytics, dashboards, metrics development, and AI readiness.
• Produce architecture, governance, quality, integration, and analytics documentation.
• Other duties as assigned or required.

Skills

Data modeling

Metadata management

CRM systems

Data quality

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

APIs

Job description

Mclaurin Aerospace seeks a Data Engineer to join the JETS II contract team at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. The role focuses on designing data models, maintaining metadata, ensuring data quality, and supporting analytics and AI readiness for space exploration initiatives.

Qualifications include a engineering degree and 2–5 years of experience, with strong skills in data modeling, governance, and documentation.