Data Insights Engineer

Job Description Summary

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.

• 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.

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

Note:

Military experience is equivalent to professional experience