Sentinel Sr. Staff Systems Physical Security Thread Lead 3155-3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The Northrop Grumman Sentinel program has an exciting opportunity for a Physical Security Thread Lead (Senior Staff Systems Engineer) on the Systems Engineering team. This role will be located in Roy, Utah and may offer a competitive relocation package.

 The selected candidate will perform, but are not limited to, the following duties:

Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and technical lead with end-to-end / top-to-bottom responsibility for the successful implementation of the Physical Security thread for the Sentinel Program.  Partner with the Sentinel program's System's Engineering and IT leadership and Office of Chief Engineering (OCE) to ensure the Physical Security thread technical baseline is developed with high quality.

• Brief program leadership, customers, and stakeholders on the Physical Security thread at both program and technical reviews.
• Establish an effective system of working group / coordination sessions with stakeholders across the development community to ensure effective horizontal and vertical thread integration.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across the Sentinel program, customers, and stakeholder communities.
• Engage in formal and informal mentoring to support knowledge transfer and talent development.

Provide oversight of all systems engineering products related to the Physical Security thread. These include, but are not limited to:

• Requirements definition and allocation, with cognizance down to the lowest level.
• Architecture and interface definitions.
• Functional flows and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) scenarios.
• Performance / allocation budgets, analysis, and margin management.
• Trade studies.
• Verification planning, including coordination of required and expected verification products down to the lowest applicable level.
• Verification and validation execution, including authorship of requirement verification reports and customer coordination.
• Solution definition / artifact design to produce a compliant realization of the thread capability.
• Integration and test planning and procedure development.
• Risk and opportunity identification and associated execution planning.
• Technical Performance Measure (TPM) reporting and management.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years
• Must be able to be successfully screened for Enhanced Security Clearances, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related experience or a PhD and 10 years of related experience.
• Experience with physical security systems and operations at critical US DoD installations.
• 3+ years' experience providing technical leadership to cross-IPT engineering team(s).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience implementing and using model-based systems engineering tools, practices, and methods.
• Strong program execution skills; demonstrated ability to meet program technical, cost, and schedule milestones.
• Strong partnership/collaboration skills. Demonstrated ability to partner cross-IPT/cross-discipline within a team.