Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack Software Discipline Lead)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

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 Aeronautics Sector (NGAS) Software Engineering Center of Technical Excellence (CoTE) is creating an Everything‑as‑Code (XaC) ecosystem powered by an AI‑augmented workforce and a resilient software factory. Our mission is to deliver mission effects at the speed of relevance by continuously evolving the tools, processes, training, and metrics that make the software‑engineering ecosystem efficient, measurable, and future‑ready. As a leader in the CoTE team you will be at the heart of this transformation, driving relentless improvement and ensuring our software capabilities not only meet but anticipate emerging challenges - and turn them into strategic opportunities.

The Software Engineering CoTE organization is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer Software to lead the Full Stack Software Discipline area. This key leadership role reports to the Aeronautics Systems (AS) Software Systems Capabilities Director in the Software Engineering CoTE organization.

The Full Stack Software Discipline Lead is the senior technical authority for the governance of the tools, processes, training, and performance‑metric ecosystem that enables NGAS teams to design, develop, and sustain a wide range of software technologies that are used in subsystems such as, but not limited to ground‑based mission‑planning, command‑and‑control, data‑dissemination, and training software.

This position supports all the Aeronautics Systems business divisions, at all of the Aeronautics Systems primary geographic sites including: Melbourne, FL; Palmdale, CA; San Diego, CA; and South Bay (El Segundo / Redondo Beach / Manhattan Beach), CA; Oklahoma City, OK. This position is geographically flexible and can be based out of any one of the 5 locations listed above.

The Lead does not own day‑to‑day coding or system integration; instead, the role architects, sustains, and continuously improves the tools, process, training, and metrics creating an enabling environment that product teams use.

Core Responsibilities include:

• Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Software discipline, aligned to long-term sector strategy.

• Regularly interface with EI&E discipline leads to identify program needs and close gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training.

• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of sector-wide engineering tools, standardized processes, digital solutions, and technical training-- ensuring they are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs.

• Build and sustain a strong Software Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring alignment of sub-CoPs, strategies, and priorities while fostering collaboration across programs and sub-disciplines.

• Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root cause analysis, corrective action planning, long-term verification of improvement.

• Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance.

Core Technical Competencies:

• Cloud & Distributed Computing: Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OpenStack), containerization (Docker, OCI), Kubernetes, service‑mesh (Istio), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps), IaC (Ansible).

• Geospatial Engineering: GIS data formats (DTED, GeoTIFF, OGC standards), CesiumJS, Web‑GL, map‑tiling services, spatial‑database (PostGIS), coordinate‑system transformations, terrain‑rendering pipelines.

• Engineering Foundations: Human-Machine interface, Human Factors Engineering, and CI-integrated security scanning.

• Software Construction: Java, Web Frameworks, UI/UX Standards.