Staff Data Engineer – Data Fabric Integration, Defense & Systems Data Fabric

GE Aerospace is an aerospace company developing solutions for defense and systems data environments. The Staff Data Engineer will build and operate the technical backbone of the Defense & Systems Data Fabric, including metadata ingestion pipelines, API and connector integrations, policy enforcement, and data-product operations across hybrid cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain automated metadata ingestion pipelines across distributed source systems
• Develop API and connector integrations for new data sources and for data-product delivery, including third-party and customer-site sources
• 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
• Support the 3–5 business-day certification and onboarding SLA with timely technical assessment of submissions
• Build to the architecture standards set by the Principal Data Architect rather than defining them independently
• Raise gaps in standards back to the Architect with a proposed pattern instead of a local workaround
• Contribute to the standard work for onboarding data products and operating the fabric

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Data Pipeline Engineering & Systems Integration or IT
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. GE Aerospace will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering (STEM major preferred)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government SECRET security clearance
• Certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Developer, or Microsoft Azure Administrator or Developer Associate
• Experience with hybrid cloud, on-premises, and edge secure connectivity and secure data transmission patterns
• Familiarity with metadata-driven governance platforms and with policy-as-code or attribute-based access control
• Hands-on pipeline engineering across ingestion, transformation, and orchestration in hybrid environments
• API and connector development for both first-party and third-party or customer-site data sources
• Comfort operating as a hands-on builder embedded in a lean, standards-driven core team
• Defense, aerospace, or other regulated or export-controlled data environment background