Data Engineer

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration.

As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer to join the team with Intuitive Machines
, a teammate company! This position is hybrid preferred, remote considered position.

NASA’s Front Door (NFD) program is seeking a Data Engineer to support enterprise data architecture, governance, quality, and integration for NASA’s external engagement platform. This role helps build and maintain the data foundation that enables intake workflows, CRM operations, analytics readiness, and cross Agency data interoperability.

Support NFD’s data architecture, governance, quality, and integration work by designing and refining data models; maintaining metadata, vocabularies, and taxonomies; documenting lineage, mappings, and lifecycle processes; developing data quality rules and remediation guidance; supporting integration analysis and source to target designs; preparing data for analytics and AI; and delivering clear documentation across all data domains.

• 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

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• 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
• Experience with CRM/workflow systems (Salesforce preferred)
• 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)
• Experience preparing data for analytics or AI initiatives
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage parallel work streams

• 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 Power Apps/Power BI
• Hybrid telework from Houston preferred, Remote considered

In addition to exciting career…