Ground System Engineering Lead (T06)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

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!

We have an opening for a Ground System Engineering Lead (T06) to join our team in El Segundo, CA.

In this role you will be delivering contractual results meeting all cost, schedule, and quality metrics while also developing customer intimacy to support the business. You will lead a multi-disciplined, cross-functional, and geographically dispersed team to complete these objectives. You will lead a team of systems engineers supporting the program’s Ground software design/development, a Quality Assurance engineer, Software Configuration Management specialists, small team of Requirement Verification engineers, and integration with the test verification of the ground.

What you'll get to do: 

• Lead and direct the Ground System Engineer team to meet cost, schedule and technical performance requirements, including periodic earned value and estimates at completion (EACs).
• Establish and coordinate workforce planning and staffing to effectively address customer requirements.
• Independently own timely delivery of key program CDRLs.
• Establish requirement verification and traceability practices.
• Work alongside software development leadership (Product Owners, Product Manager, Development Lead) to ensure priorities are properly understood, adhered to, and implemented by software developers.
• Host and support the program’s quarterly design milestone events in collaboration with the program Ground Architect. These milestone meetings drives design efforts for the following quarterly development cycle.
• Generate presentation material and meeting minutes for customer milestone meetings.
• Lead synchronization of design for ground functionality in integration and test verification.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 14 years of relevant experience; Master’s degree in STEM with 12 years of relevant experience; PhD in STEM with 10 years of relevant experience
• Top Secret clearance required at the time of application, and the ability to obtain SCI & program clearance
• Proven experience in Systems Engineering leadership for ground systems
• Mission planning and/or ground operations experience
• Space domain (i.e. orbit regimes), orbital/flight dynamics, and/or mission data processing experience
• Ability to communicate and drive solutions in ambiguous agile environment
• Exceptional organizational abilities proven by experience providing customer deliverables and managing contractual deadlines
• Comfortable and confident presenting information from Microsoft PowerPoint to medium to large audiences (30+ people)
• Experience leading teams composing requirements and providing verification and validation traceability
• Mastery of Agile process and tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket (Atlassian tools)
• Ability to travel 10% of the time

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading milestone Systems Engineering reviews such as Preliminary or Critical Design Reviews
• Cost Account Management (CAM) & Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Certified
• Prior experience as assignment manager organizing and providing tasks to a small team and reporting status such as percent complete of work performed
• Familiarity with Software Assurance, Software Configuration Management, and Mission Assurance responsibilities
• Experience engaging with and lead