Sr. Principal Software Developer Lead

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 Defense Systems (NGDS) is looking for a Senior Principal Software Developer Lead in support of an emerging opportunity related to Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) and Electromagnetic Battle Management (EMBM). The work location is either Ft. Meade, MD or Annapolis, MD.

The Software Developer Lead institutes development quality standards for the entire software development team, takes on the most challenging coding assignments, is a resource for more junior developers, and performs code reviews of others’ work in support of program objectives. The ideal candidate will be a cross-functional team player, willing to take on challenges, who collaborates with internal and external teams, and is driven to provide solutions to internal and external customers.

This position is contingent upon program award.

Responsibilities Include:

• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions while ensuring software standards are met
• Maintain and improve the software CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, bug free delivery of critical business software to production
• Set up and deploy Development, Test, and Build environments
• Install, test, and verify software products
• Provide support for the software build and deployment
• Work within a Cross-Functional scrum team to develop high-priority software features and capabilities
• Understand third-party software to support implementation of software interfaces and support integration
• Collaborate and assist in the development of software test products such as Verification Cross Reference Matrices to tie software requirements to software tests, Software Test Plans, Software Test Procedures, and Software Test Reports
• Assist defining and development of test approaches for new software and system capabilities
• Resolve technical issues within individual scrum teams, across program scrums, and with the support of other functional roles
• Interface on a technical level with the customer on a regular basis
• Support authoring and development of contract deliverable documentation that support deliverable software products and test events

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or a related technical degree plus and/or equivalent 8 years’ experience.
• Current U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance (adjudicated within the last 5 years), with ability to obtain a Top Secret /SCI (w/ Polygraph) security clearance
• 5 or more years of experience developing applications using modern coding languages.
• Understanding of latest development and data management techniques.
• Experience leading teams
• Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure
• 3 or more years of experience leading coding and technical reviews.
• 3 or more years of experience leading developers in DevSecOps environment.
• Experience with software Integration
• Experience supporting/coordinating formal software development test events
• Automated test script or test procedure development and maintenance for software testing
• A functional understanding of how revision control systems (e.g., BitBucket, git, CVS, etc.) are used

• Hands-on software system troubleshooting skills
• Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM degree, and 12 years’ experience; or Master’s degree and 8 years’ experience
• Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification.
• Experience leading or in a key technical role on previous Agile Software Development teams
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