Staff Data Engineer - Data Fabric Integrations (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Remote-friendly position

Job summary

GE Aerospace is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build the data fabric backbone, including automated ingestion, policy enforcement, and governance across hybrid cloud, on‑premises, and edge environments in a defense context. You will work with architects and product managers to enable secure data access and reliable pipelines.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering across ingestion, transformation, and orchestration with a lean, standards‑driven core team, and requires security clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with relevant professional experience as stated.
• Minimum 3 years in Data Pipeline Engineering & Systems Integration or IT.
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SECRET security clearance.
• 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 through the lifecycle.
• Support schema-translation pipeline builds in partnership with senior engineers.
• Wire the policy enforcement engine and implement policy-as-code and ABAC for data access control.
• Collaborate with IAM and export compliance architects to validate enforcement logic.
• Onboard and manage technical operations of data products, including monitoring and reliability.
• Maintain technical docs and support onboarding SLA with timely assessment.

Skills

Data Pipeline Engineering

System Integration

Security clearance

Defense industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS/Engineering)

Associates degree with 7+ years experience

High School Diploma with 9+ years experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

GE Aerospace is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build the data fabric backbone, including automated ingestion, policy enforcement, and governance across hybrid cloud, on‑premises, and edge environments in a defense context. You will work with architects and product managers to enable secure data access and reliable pipelines.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering across ingestion, transformation, and orchestration with a lean, standards‑driven core team, and requires security clearance