Remote Staff Data Engineer: Data Fabric & Governance

GE Aerospace; Loves Park (IL); Remote; USD 112,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Aerospace is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build the data fabric backbone—ingestion pipelines, APIs and connectors, and policy enforcement for governance rules. You will operate across hybrid cloud, on‑prem, and customer sites in a defense context, delivering reliable data flows and provable access control.

The role emphasizes collaboration with the Principal Data Architect and Sr Principal Technical Product Manager, with a focus on security, reliability, and timely onboarding of data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with required experience or equivalent military experience.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Data Pipeline Engineering & Systems Integration or IT.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government SECRET security clearance.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated metadata ingestion pipelines across distributed source systems.
• Develop API and connector integrations for data sources and data-product delivery.
• Plan, schedule, and execute integration work for data products moving through the lifecycle.
• Support schema-translation pipeline builds in partnership with the Sr Staff Data Engineer.
• Wire the policy enforcement engine that operationalizes governance rules and the runtime design set by the Principal Data Architect.
• Implement policy-as-code and attribute-based access control, including export-control and data-sovereignty enforcement.
• Partner with federated IAM and export compliance architects to validate enforcement logic against the access model.
• Onboard and manage the technical operations of data products in the fabric: monitoring, alerting, and pipeline reliability.
• Maintain technical documentation that federated teams can build against.

Skills

Data Pipeline Engineering

Systems Integration

Hybrid Cloud

APIs & Connectors

Security Clearance (US)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering

Associates degree with 7+ years experience

High School Diploma with 9+ years experience

Tools

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Azure Administrator/Developer

Job description

GE Aerospace is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build the data fabric backbone—ingestion pipelines, APIs and connectors, and policy enforcement for governance rules. You will operate across hybrid cloud, on‑prem, and customer sites in a defense context, delivering reliable data flows and provable access control.

The role emphasizes collaboration with the Principal Data Architect and Sr Principal Technical Product Manager, with a focus on security, reliability, and timely onboarding of data