Portfolio and Project Management - Technical Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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’s Chief Information Office is seeking a Technical Lead to support our scaled adoption of an enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) platform as part of a Digital Program Execution team within an enterprise Digital Transformation Office (DTO) strategic program.  This position will be part of the Business Systems service line and will be a remote/100% virtual position, with an option for working in a Northrop Grumman facility. Occasional travel may be required. This could change based upon business conditions.

The Tech Lead will be responsible for PPM related configurations and migrating those configurations through the development environments. This role is responsible to Import and Export data as additional programs are launched.  The Lead will assist with defect triage related to application configuration, user access, data accuracy and integrations. The Lead will also assist business users with testing.  The Lead will perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectivity analyses for the PPM system.  The Lead will support preparation and presentation of briefings and demonstrations to the PPM customers.

The Portfolio and Project Management platform provides a set of interconnected, digital systems and underlying IT infrastructure that digitalizes many aspects of program execution. The purpose of the PPM solution is to achieve better business results, including reducing waste and risk and increasing product quality and operational efficiency by enabling modern practices and methodologies.

This role will require the ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

The essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Build and deploy the PPM platform tools to help the team facilitate their development process.
• Assist in writing and updating technical documentation
• Use knowledge of product lifecycle to actively participate in architecture, design, and code reviews
• Translate the product vision into requirements and architectural solutions
• Responsible for coordination of existing development teams including integrated program planning and execution
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity on and support development of controls and processes across development lifecycles
• Demand planning for infrastructure and licensing growth needs
• Classified sustainment and growth in all aspects of architecture and design
• Coordinate upgrades, identifying dependencies and customer requirements
• Lead weekly deployment team meetings including vendor coordination
• Support development of processes and procedures to support PPM and digital program execution objectives
• Attend and actively participate in agile planning events in support of team’s efforts
• Provide technical and business support to team members
• Improve customer experience
• Address customer feedback and process improvement suggestions

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience OR 6 years of relevant experience with a Masters degree.
• Experience with designing and implementing Infrastructure architectures to align with Vendor requirements and customer usage
• Experience in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure and the respective analytics capabilities and monitoring tools
• Proven hands-on IIS/Web server experience.
• Experience documenting installation instructions and maintaining updates
• Experience documenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) documentation and maintaining updates
• Experience interacting with Shared Services teams (Cloud operations, Cloud Architects, Database administrators, Cyber/Information Security, etc.) and providing oversight, direction, and