Sr Principal Engineer Systems Architect – HW Architect (25-298)

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 is offering an exciting opportunity for a Sr Principal Engineer Systems Architect – Hardware Architect (25-298) to join our team of skilled and diverse professionals. This role, based in Colorado Springs, CO, or Huntsville, AL, is crucial in supporting the U.S. President, Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position, and this role is on-site with no remote options.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the central part of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that allows the U.S. president, the secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, monitor battle progress, and actively control designated networked sensors and weapon systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that provides an optimized response to threats across all ranges and flight phases. C2BMC acts as a force multiplier by networking, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations both worldwide and locally to enhance performance. Additionally, C2BMC is a crucial part of all system ground and flight tests, which verify and demonstrate the current and future capabilities of the missile defense system.

Member of the Systems Engineering & Verification (SE&V) Resource Management Area (RMA). This role supports the design and development of hardware, network, and hardware product selection, as well as procurement support and hardware approval processes for the C2BMC program, both regionally and globally. The selected candidates will work directly with the HW Architect. They will be responsible for collaborating with the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and the Hardware Site Engineering Control Board (HSECB), as well as assigning engineering staff from all functional areas to support the selection of hardware and software.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for compiling, maintaining, and coordinating Bill of Material changes with Task Order Management and Customer Representatives
• Support the delivery of multiple CDRLs, including hardware and software reports and current design details
• Assist in preparing BOMs for proposal pricing and ongoing hardware and software evaluation to support EOS/EOL and evolution roadmaps
• Will also involve iteration planning
• Experience working in an integrated team environment with systems, software, and specialty engineers to develop hardware and infrastructure solutions using engineering processes and methods
• Skilled in communicating desired capabilities to a diverse group of developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users
• Ability to liaise with the C2BMC Integrated Logistics Support Working Group (ILSWG)
• Support End of Sale/End of Life COA analysis.
• Demonstrate outside-the-box thinking
• Capable of analyzing high-level physical and infrastructure designs
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to present technical approaches and findings
• Work effectively and cooperatively with colleagues both within and outside the program
• The ability to identify disconnects between hardware hosts and COTS software hosted on them
• Familiarity with the C2BMC system and missile defense domain
• Support the team leader with working groups, iteration planning, TIMs, ILSWG, and other related tasks

Salary range in Huntsville: $131,100 - $196,700

Salary range in Colorado Springs: $124,900 - $187,300

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