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Software Center of Technical Excellence Director 2

Northrop Grumman

FLME229, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jun 2026

💰 $362,100/yr($209,000/yr – $362,100/yr)

About the role

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 Aeronautics Engineering organization is seeking a Director to lead the Software Center of Technical Excellence (CoTE). This key leadership role reports to the Aeronautics Systems (AS) Vice President of the Center of Technical Excellence and is responsible for defining strategy to elevate technical excellence across the Software disciplines.

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 El Segundo, CA. This position is geographically flexible and can be based out of any one of the 4 locations listed above. Ability to travel as needed (approx. 25%).

The CoTE Director will unite programs, engineers, and technical experts under a shared set of tools, processes, and practices to ensure a consistent, cohesive, and collaborative approach across all AS sector programs. This position partners closely with Chief Engineers, Engineering Integration & Execution (EI&E) Leads, and Strategy, Integration & Operations (SI&O) team to empower, equip, and train Software technical professionals to support current program and capture execution, NCTA efforts, and long-term business needs.

The Software CoTE Director will deliver sector wide technical capabilities spanning the full product life cycle across the breadth of NGAS Software Capabilities including real-time safety critical and mission critical software, non-real time software applications and tools, On-Prem and Off-Prem Cloud native applications, Infrastructure Software and tools, Modeling and Simulation Software, Artificial Intelligence Software. These capabilities include the application of Air Worthiness, Safety, Nuclear Surety, and Coding standards into our SW architectures, designs, pipelines, and development processes.

The ideal CoTE Director is an influential connector and trusted steward of their discipline — combining deep technical expertise with a passion for technical training and development, collaboration, and continuous improvement. This leader will collaborate closely with other disciplines, programs, R&AD, Common Products, SIO, CIDO, Mission Assurance, Strategy and Business Development, and other Sector and Corporate Software organizations.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

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.