Software Engineer 4 - (20-072.2)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: 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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems – Launch and Missile Defense Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a Sr Principal Engineer Software - System Architecture SW Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Huntsville, AL.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program integrates the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to see the battle develop collectively, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives.

C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks integrate, synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is integral to all system ground and flight tests, which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.

The selected candidate will be a member of the C2BMC software architecture team on the Regional Applications Agile Release Train (ART).

Essential Functions:

• This position will be responsible for developing automated acceptance tests that verify functionality across the C2BMC system. This position's responsibilities include:

• • Support architectural definition of the C2BMC system and then implement automated acceptance tests to integrate C2BMC products including tactical software development.

  • Implement a pipeline that verified the architectural products.

  • Support product teams pipeline development as necessary.

Basic Qualifications:

Please note your updated security clearance and IAT/relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 9 years of related work experience or a Master’s degree in a related discipline and 7 years of related work experience, or a PhD and 5 years of related work experience, or 13 years of related work experience in lieu of a degree may be considered

• Applicants must have a current active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start with the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance

• Current DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, CISSP, CISA, etc.) which is required to start

• The candidate must have an understanding of the full life-cycle software engineering practices and procedures applicable to large software systems to include:

• • Recent hands on application development experience or coursework in the use of the Java programming language.

  • Understanding of the difference between white box and black box testing

  • Understanding of software unit testing strategies, automated software builds, continuous integration and continuous deployment.

  • Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development(BDD) required.

  • Experience developing software on Linux platforms is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on experience with software development and CM tools suc