Data Engineer

Mclaurin Aerospace is hiring a Data Engineer for its JETS II contract team at NASA Johnson Space Center. The role focuses on data modeling, metadata and data quality governance, integration, and preparing data for analytics and AI initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Design and refine logical/physical data models and schemas
• Maintain metadata repositories, taxonomies, glossaries, and authoritative definitions
• Develop and monitor data quality rules, metrics, and remediation plans
• Document lineage, mappings, interfaces, retention, and lifecycle processes
• Support integration requirements, exchange analysis, and source to target designs
• Assist with analytics, dashboards, metrics development, and AI readiness
• Produce architecture, governance, quality, integration, and analytics documentation
• Other duties as assigned or required

Requirements:

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering and a minimum of 2- 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area
• Strong skills in data modeling, schema design, and metadata management
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical/data solutions
• Experience supporting governance, stewardship, and cross functional coordination
• Strong documentation and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage parallel workstreams
• US Citizenship
• Salesforce preferred
• Experience preparing data for analytics or AI initiatives
• 8+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise data management
• Experience in NASA, Federal environments, or enterprise governance frameworks
• Salesforce data architecture, metadata tools, or object modeling
• Knowledge of APIs, integration patterns, lifecycle management, and MDM
• Experience with dashboards, metrics, or analytics ready data models
• Experience supporting AI/ML data preparation
• Familiarity with data cataloging and metadata tools
• Experience with PowerApps/Power BI