Data Engineering Leader, Supply Chain Digital Automation
Greenville, NC - USA
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
Build and scale the industrial data platform that powers real-time factory intelligence AI-enabled operations and digital manufacturing across the global manufacturing network. Implement and operate the data pipelines and platforms securely ensuring technical integrity and lineage.Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Industrial Data Platform Architecture
- Define and evolve the end-to-end industrial data platform architecture spanning edge ingestion plant-level data infrastructure and enterprise-scale data platforms.
- Design event-driven data architectures capable of handling high-frequency machine telemetry transactional MES data and engineering datasets while supporting both real-time and historical analytics use cases.
Industrial Semantic Modeling and Contextualization
- Lead the development of standard industrial data models and ontologies that contextualize raw equipment signals with asset hierarchy process context and production events.
- Establish standardized contextualization patterns across plants to enable consistent interpretation of machine process and quality data.
Edge Data Engineering and OT Connectivity
- Define standards for industrial edge data ingestion including connectivity to PLCs SCADA historians and industrial IoT gateways.
- Establish resilient ingestion patterns supporting high-frequency telemetry buffering and store-and-forward mechanisms for operational reliability.
- High-Performance Industrial Data Processing: Build pipelines capable of processing high-frequency industrial telemetry at scale ensuring low latency for operational decision-making use cases.
AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
- Build the data infrastructure required for AI and advanced analytics including curated feature datasets training data pipelines and reproducible data environments.
- Partner with AI/ML teams to ensure data pipelines support model development training validation and operational deployment.
Data Observability and Reliability Engineering
- Define and implement a comprehensive data observability framework that monitors the health completeness and reliability of industrial data across the full lifecycle - from equipment signal capture through ingestion contextualization storage and application consumption.
- Establish standard observability metrics (latency freshness signal loss data incompleteness) alerts and operational playbooks to ensure rapid detection and automated resolution of data integrity issues impacting manufacturing operations.
- Maintain complete lineage visibility from source equipment signals through data pipelines and transformations to consuming applications ensuring traceability of data dependencies and rapid root-cause analysis during data incidents.
- Monitor schema changes and contextualization mappings across industrial data pipelines to detect drift that may impact downstream analytics AI models or operational applications.
- Drive the implementation of DevOps principles for data pipelines (automated testing version control and rapid error-free deployment of new or updated data products)
- Implement rigorous automated data quality framework and monitoring at the point of origin and throughout the pipeline to ensure the reliability and accuracy of sensor machine and production data
- Integrate industrial data observability signals with enterprise observability platforms to provide unified visibility across applications infrastructure and data pipelines supporting smart manufacturing systems.
Multi-Plant Data Platform Scaling
- Design deployment patterns that allow industrial data infrastructure to scale consistently across multiple factories while accommodating plant-level variations in equipment and processes.
- Establish repeatable factory onboarding playbooks for new sites joining the data platform.
- Standards Enforcement (Unified Namespace): Enforce a consistent data model across all plants and equipment types (e.g. using standards like ISA-95) to ensure data consistency and usability regardless of the factory or machine brand.
OT Data Security Architecture
- Collaborate with the CISO and CTO to design secure data movement patterns between OT networks edge infrastructure and enterprise platforms ensuring compliance with industrial cybersecurity frameworks.
- Enforce governance that balances the speed and automation of DataOps with the cyber security demands of Operational Technology (OT) including data lineage auditability and version control
Data Products and Operating Model
- Establish a data product lifecycle strategy including ownership SLAs versioning consumer documentation and lifecycle management.
- Define standards for discoverability reuse and governance of industrial data assets.
- Establish formal data contracts governing the exchange of data between industrial systems including MES ERP quality systems and AI applications to ensure stable integrations and predictable data behavior.
- Collaborate with the OT product leader Global Process Digital Authority and Global Process Engineering Authority to ensure data solutions meet business needs and technical requirements.
Build and Lead the Industrial Data Engineering Organization
- Recruit mentor and grow a team of data engineers specializing in industrial telemetry streaming architectures reliability engineering and manufacturing data systems.
- Establish engineering standards career paths and technical practices aligned with modern DataOps and platform engineering principles.
Required Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in data engineering data platform architecture or industrial data systems.
- Proven experience designing and operating real-time data pipelines for operational environments such as manufacturing industrial IoT utilities or energy systems.
- Demonstrated expertise in streaming data architectures supporting high-frequency telemetry and event-driven workloads.
- Experience integrating data across industrial systems such as PLCs historians MES and ERP platforms including familiarity with industrial connectivity protocols (OPC-UA MQTT Modbus or similar)
- Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable data platforms in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Hands on experience implementing DataOps practices including CI/CD for data pipelines automated testing data quality monitoring and pipeline observability.
- Experience designing data models and contextualization frameworks for operational or industrial environments including familiarity with ISA-95 asset hierarchies or similar operational data structures.
- Experience implementing data governance frameworks including lineage access management and auditability for operational data platforms.
- Experience working at the intersection of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments.
Desired Characteristics
- Demonstrates strong systems thinking with the ability to design industrial data architectures that support complex manufacturing ecosystems spanning machines operational systems and advanced analytics platforms.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for understanding manufacturing processes and translating operational realities into scalable data engineering solutions.
- Strong operational mindset with a focus on data reliability observability and resilience in mission-critical environments.
- Ability to balance architectural rigor with pragmatic execution enabling rapid delivery of data capabilities while maintaining platform scalability and long-term maintainability.
- Strong ability to collaborate with cross functional teams across engineering manufacturing operations and enterprise technology teams.
- Strong product mindset for data platforms with the ability to translate operational needs into reusable data products with clearly defined consumers and service levels.
- Experience building data platforms that support AI advanced analytics or real-time operational decision systems in industrial environments.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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