Data Engineer - Manufacturing Data & CORE Repository

National Center for Defense Manufacturing; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

National Center for Defense Manufacturing (NCDMM) is seeking a Data Engineer to join America Makes, the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing. You will lead integration, structuring, and hosting of project data within CORE, ensuring data quality and reusability.

You will collaborate with a diverse team across government and industry to advance adaptive and additive manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in developing and managing manufacturing data pipelines, data management practices, and database architectures
• Strong time management skills - be willing to make a plan, stick to it, and communicate changes effectively
• Ability to lead discussions if or when necessary - recognize you and your voice matter, we get there as a team
• Willingness to ask questions when matters are unfamiliar, unknown, or unclear - recognizing everyone’s understanding is important
• Willingness to seek feedback and address challenges or matters which are unclear - we operate in an environment where even when we believe we understand; there is much to still learn
• Strong communication skills concerning the following: project plans, work breakdown structures, risk, and technical details
• Great note taker or ability to retain knowledge quickly
• A desire to keep team members (internal and external) informed of plans, logic, and goals - we will get there together
• Candidates who exhibit a service mentally are most likely to succeed and quickly become leaders and/or critical team members in this role
• Candidates who are able to think strategically and execute tasks systematically to plan are most suitable for this role - how to establish priority, operate intentionally (be strategic), and execute to plan is very important

Responsibilities

• Understand, develop, and continuously improve data management principles and common practices for the America Makes program
• Facilitate integration, structuring, and storage of project data within the America Makes data repository, CORE
• Identify and address data management capability gaps, deliver methods and approaches which enhance data quality and ensure reuse, and manage a strategy for continuous process improvement for America Makes data management and persistence
• Strong awareness of existing state of the art in data pedigree, data structures, essential variables (provenance and essential components of defining a manufacturing workflow), and data models for advanced manufacturing technologies
• Manage the quality and reuse of America Makes data assets
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, panel discussions
• Document technical details, aggregate information, analyze data, draw conclusions, identify trends, and summarize information
• Support or lead the drafting of manuscripts, reports, and presentations
• Present programmatic and technical information
• Develop, share, and follow instructions/procedures
• Lead group discussions with project teams and America Makes members
• Develop plans/schedules which establish time-based programmatic and/or professional development goals
• Serve as an individual contributor or provide consultation as a subject matter expert

Skills

Data pipelines

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Project management

Critical thinking

Note taking

Communication with stakeholders

Strategic execution

Job description

National Center for Defense Manufacturing (NCDMM) is seeking a Data Engineer to join America Makes, the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing. You will lead integration, structuring, and hosting of project data within CORE, ensuring data quality and reusability.

You will collaborate with a diverse team across government and industry to advance adaptive and additive manufacturing.