Staff Data Insights Engineer

GE Aerospace•Detroit, MI

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Staff Data Insights Engineer is responsible for leading the design, deployment, and day to day operations of Data and Insights products that support the Avionics and Power business within Defense and Systems DT. This role will own the operational lifecycle of analytics platforms and applications—ensuring they are reliable, secure, performant, and cost effective—while partnering closely with product, architecture, data engineering, and business stakeholders. The engineer will act as a technical leader for application operations, driving standard processes, automation, and observability across the data and analytics landscape to enable high quality business decisions. At GE Aerospace, we invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. At GE Aerospace, respect for people is core to our culture and commitment to FLIGHT DECK, our proprietary lean operating model. We attract, develop, and retain industry-leading talent from all backgrounds and cultivate communities where people are respected and empowered to reach their fullest potential. For the people of GE Aerospace, their work isn't just a job. It's their passion and purpose. We work and win as one team, accountable to each other and our customers, and we are always finding a better way to climb higher together. We were meant to fly.

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
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
4+ years of experience in application operations, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering, with significant exposure to data and analytics systems.
Working knowledge of BI/analytics tools (for example, Spotfire, Tableau, Power BI, or similar).
Demonstrated experience operating cloud‑hosted applications and services
Experience with PL/SQL, AWS Redshift procedures
Strong hands‑on experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools and building dashboards for operational health.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment frameworks.
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)).
Successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting data platforms, such as data warehouses, data lakes, data lakehouses, or analytics platforms.
Familiarity with ETL/ELT tooling, workflow orchestration, and data pipeline operations.
Experience operating applications or data systems in a defense, aerospace, or highly regulated environment.
Strong understanding of security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and network security controls.
Proven ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives, influence without authority, and drive standardization across teams.
Strong problem‑solving and root‑cause analysis skills, with a track record of improving operational reliability and reducing incidents.
Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical concepts into business‑relevant language.
Customer‑driven mindset with a focus on delivering high‑quality, reliable analytic capabilities to Avionics and Power stakeholders.
Continuous improvement orientation, always seeking better ways to operate, automate, and standardize.
Ownership mentality for the health, performance, and lifecycle of supported products.
Ability to thrive in a complex, matrixed environment and balance multiple priorities across programs.

Responsibilities

Own end‑to‑end operations of data and insights applications and platforms supporting Avionics and Power (e.g., dashboards, data services, analytics models, and APIs).
Manage environments (dev, test, stage, prod) and deployments for analytics workloads, ensuring consistency, reliability, and controlled change management.
Monitor and optimize performance, availability, and reliability (SLOs/SLAs) of applications, including proactive capacity planning and tuning.
Establish and maintain runbooks, standard work, and operation procedures for core applications and services.
Lead incident response and problem management, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures.
Operationalize data pipelines, data products, and analytics solutions supporting defense programs.
Ensure data operations quality including data refresh reliability, job orchestration, error handling, and data validation checks.
Support analytics and BI tools (for example: data visualization platforms, semantic layers, curated data sets) used by Avionics and Power engineering, program, and operations teams.
Contribute to solution design with an operations lens, ensuring new data and analytics products are supportable, secure, and scalable from day one.
Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerts) to achieve high service reliability and fast issue detection.
Automate operational tasks (deployments, configuration, testing, backups, and recovery) using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code where applicable.
Drive continuous improvement in application operations, using metrics and retrospectives to improve stability, quality, and cycle time.
Promote standard tools and patterns across Defense and Systems DT for operating data and analytics products (monitoring, deployment, access management, documentation, and support models).
Ensure compliance with GE Aerospace and Defense requirements related to cybersecurity, data protection, export control, and regulatory obligations.
Implement and maintain access control, authentication, and authorization for data and analytics applications, following least‑privilege principles.
Participate in audits and reviews, providing evidence of proper controls, logging, and operational practices.
Support data governance practices, including data classification, retention, and usage policies for defense data assets.
Act as a primary operational point of contact for Avionics and Power business stakeholders for data and analytics products.
Collaborate with product managers and solution owners to prioritize enhancements, manage technical debt, and plan operational readiness for new releases.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and operations team members.
Communicate status, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including leadership in Defense and Systems DT.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
Access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
Access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants.
Tuition assistance
Adoption assistance
Paid parental leave
Disability insurance
Life insurance
Paid time-off for vacation or illness.