Staff Data Insights Engineer

About This Role

Lead the design and deployment of Data and Insights products for the Avionics and Power business within Defense and Systems DT, ensuring reliability, security, and performance of analytics platforms. This role acts as a technical leader for application operations, driving standard processes, automation, and observability.

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
• 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
• Ensure compliance with GE Aerospace and Defense requirements related to cybersecurity, data protection, export control, and regulatory obligations
• Act as a primary operational point of contact for Avionics and Power business stakeholders for data and analytics products

Requirements

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college
• 4+ years of professional experience with a Bachelor's degree, 7+ years with an Associate's degree, or 9+ years with a High School Diploma

Nice to Have

• 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

Skills

* Required skills