Senior Principal Engineer Software - Release Train (California & Oklahoma)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Senior Principal Engineer Software - Release Train. This position can be located in either San Diego, California or Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct. The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels. The candidate will be responsible for both release train engineering as well as support general software development.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• Manage release trains and ensure various content is released in accordance with its planned timeline.
• Understand program goals across different contracts, along with timelines of when specific contracts expect to issue build releases.
• Assist Scrum teams manage epic branching/management, along with making sure Jira stories are populated properly to ensure that components are released and tracked as needed.
• Help define/maintain automated smoke tests for various baselines that will ensure merged content into a mainline didn’t break base functionality.
• Manage process for unit testing/automated testing when stories are complete.
• Track dependencies of various repositories.
• Help remove impediments to teams related to content getting into mainlines.
• Help set up mainlines for various repositories.
• Create early evaluation builds for early testing and provide these to embedded development/integration teams
• Define quality gates for content getting into mainlines (testing wise)
• Collaborate and work in a team environment with Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test, in an Agile software development environment.
• Participate in the software development cycle including prototype and graphic user interface design, implementation and delivery of build/test/release.
• Work with object-oriented programming, design patterns, JMS, Web Services, XML and related technologies (i.e., XPath, XSLT, XSD)
• Develop enterprise solutions for Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) in a SOA environment
• Work in a process-oriented software development environment across the software lifecycle
• Collaborate with team members on a regular basis.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility.  There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position.  Travel up to 25% may be required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
• Prior leadership experience using agile development, including participating as Product Owner, SCRUM Master, and/or team member in an Agile development environment.
• Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience with Agile software development, object-oriented architecture and programming, software integration and testing.
• Experience and proficiency utilizing Java, Experience with Java microservices, Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications.
• Experience with at least two of the following programming or scripting languages: Python, Go, C++, C#, PowerShell, VBScript, Bash, or KornShell.
• Experience with Cloud technologies and service providers.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evalu