Data Engineer - Manufacturing Data Pipelines & Governance

National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining; Youngstown (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join the America Makes program. The role focuses on leading the integration, structuring, and hosting of project data within the CORE repository, ensuring data quality and reusability across 200+ active projects.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of experience in data pipelines, data management practices, and database architectures, with strong communication and leadership skills to drive continuous

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in developing and managing manufacturing data pipelines, data management practices, and database architectures

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
• Self-starter and life learner required
• Exhibit a passion for serving the nation and improving the U.S. global manufacturing competitiveness.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data management

Data architectures

ETL

Python

Job description

National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join the America Makes program. The role focuses on leading the integration, structuring, and hosting of project data within the CORE repository, ensuring data quality and reusability across 200+ active projects.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of experience in data pipelines, data management practices, and database architectures, with strong communication and leadership skills to drive continuous