Staff Systems Architect: Digital Engineering Lead (TS/SCI Required)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

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.

Do you want to lead a Digital engineering team for a sector priority win? If so, we need you to build, develop, and establish an end to end digital thread for our missions. You will be responsible for identifying resource needs (people, tools, areas, support services) and working with sector and program stakeholders to address these needs across the breadth of a large program execution.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing a roadmap from existing tools, processes, and efforts towards a program specific implementation of optimized engineering and programmatic processes
• Perform analysis-of-alternatives to lead to a cohesive program solution
• Lead a team to implement the roadmap, hand in hand with program management and technical leads
• Document the non-recurring efforts to enable a digital landscape and working with program team to deliver the system
• Educate leads, customers, and engineers on the program’s digital vision, and how it will enable lower recurring engineering in long term
• Develop products that align with agile development as well as delivery of traditional aerospace engineering, software and programmatic products while minimizing recurring cost

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree (Technical Field preferred) with 14 years’ experience (or 12 years of experience w/ a Masters, or 9 years w/ a PhD).  Experience can be considered in lieu of degree Must have U.S. Citizenship with active or current TS/SCI Clearance at time of application
• Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices
• Experience with developing and presenting briefing slides to senior leaders and executive level personnel
• Ability to work as part of a distributed multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to capture core concepts and instructional needs from a large amount of technical data (ground and space hardware) and communicate technical concepts to an audience of non-subject matter experts with varying levels of domain experience
• Be self-directed and able to envision the end state of the product and take initiative to drive product development to closure

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in mission design, satellite ground software, distributed modeling & simulation
• Ability to architect with MBSE and tie analysis products to model behavior
• Understanding of system delivery lifecycle, CDRLs, and the interplay between various national security customers and products
• Knowledge of programmatic financial deliveries as an IPT lead, cam,  or deputy PM, with delivering EVMS  data or participating in IPRs, PMRs, or IBRs
• Experience in scripting languages and modeling tools (e.g. Python, STOL, VBA, STK, etc)

The Northrop Grumman Tactical Space Division is a strategic partner specializing in commercial and classified partnerships with the design, delivery, operation and sustainment of satellites and human spacecraft.  We support science and space exploration through our various partnerships, including NASA’s Artemis program with the goal to return humans to the Moon in 2024 and the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) program that has discovered more than twenty confirmed plants.  Recognized as an industry leader, we also develop highly specialized space and satellite components.

Northrop Grumman offers a competitive and robust benefits program.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

Medical

Dental & Vision coverage

401k

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

Paid Time Off

Health & Wellness Resources

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