Sr. Staff Chief Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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 Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

You’ll be joining an existing on-contract program supporting a critical national security mission that is both in Operations and continuing development. The program team of approximately 40 members is geographically dispersed across the US, centered around Aurora, CO. The team is composed of software developers organized into agile scrum teams focused on development based on priorities provided by the customer. The program is utilizing new commercial technologies to solve the DoD’s problems and executes in a modern agile framework. The program’s culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technology, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product. This position may be done in either Aurora, CO or Redondo Beach, CA.

This program is seeking an experienced and motivated Chief Engineer to join the team. This role will serve as the technical authority for all aspects of software and systems engineering by leading a multi-disciplined engineering team to successfully deliver technical performance within cost and schedule.
Job responsibilities include, but not limited to, the following:
•    Be an advisor and/or technical liaison between Chief Product Owner, Chief Scrum Master, Chief Architect, and the Program Manager.
•    Be a technical leader for the engineering team 
•    Be responsible for developing and sharing program strategic and mission path forward, vision, and objectives with program 
•    Be the technical authority for all aspects of engineering on the program 
•    Inform the PM on technical direction affecting scope and issues that warrant Government customer notification and/or decision
•    Coordinate across leadership to define strategic technical roadmap in the 1 year, 2 year, and 5 year timeframes
•    Ensure technical solutions align with customer mission objectives (i.e. connect mission and technical product roadmap) – Are we building the right thing?
•    Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand business needs and align technical solutions
•    Ensure the solution meets the overall mission needs in conjunction with other contracted program partners
•    Support Risk and Opportunity Management process by identifying and owning applicable risks 
•    Review and ensure system technical compliance with the program’s Operating Model

• Provide oversight for software architecture and design
• Oversee the development process in implementing technical solutions
• Resolve technical challenges and guide the team in implementing solutions
• Ensure focus on technical solution quality

•    Manage program technical resources (e.g. involvement with interviews and program staffing)
•    Represent Northrop Grumman on technical aspects of the program at customer and contracted partner meetings
•    Ensure the technical team is thoroughly prepared for Government engagement activities and technical approaches that require Government decisions
•    Manage the execution of software engineering processes
•    Be accountable for system technical performance (Service Level Agreements, Service Level Interfaces)
•    Ensure Mission Engineering (ME) is informed and jointly conduct technical solution analysis with Chief Architect and ME

The Chief Engineer is expected to quickly gain mission and system domain knowledge coup