Sentinel (GBSD) – Principal Systems Engineer - Agile Coach (10242 10243 10244)

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman's Space Systems organization is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to join the Command and Launch Team as an Agile Coach.  This position will be located in Roy, UT.

What You’ll Get To Do: 

• Provide support for day-to-day operations using Agile practices, and adhere to Agile methodology to enforce Scrum compliance among the teams.
• Act as an Agile coach and mentor to other scrum masters, Product Owners, and team members to impart or reinforce knowledge of Agile concepts, tools and practices.
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective, Daily Scrums, and Backlog Refinement. 
• Work with team leads and Product Owners on schedule and Program Increment planning to ensure user stories and sprints align with deadlines.
• Use Agile tools such as Atlassian Jira to aid in Scrum coordination.
• Aid in providing additional Agile metrics, including collating and deriving insights from data.
• Support systems engineering activities including use case development, requirements definition/allocation, functional decomposition, interface definition, verification & validation, and requirements traceability to the test plans
• Coordinate with integrated product teams for establishing content within the architecture.
• Interface with customers, program management and technical staff.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, 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   
• Employee Discounts  

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.   This position may include relocation assistance.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) discipline
• A minimum 5 years of related engineering experience with a bachelor's degree; 3 years’ experience with a Master’s; or 2 years’ with PHD
• Must be a US Citizen with and active Secret Security Clearance (awarded/reinvestigation within 6 years or in CE), and the ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) Clearance
• Experience developing models with Cameo or equivalent tools
• Experience using Requirements repository tools (i.e. ,DOORS).
• Experience with Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
• Experience with Agile methodologies (i.e., Scrum)
• Experience with Atlassian Jira

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret Clearance (awarded within the past 5 years)
• Experience with Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Systems Modeling Language (SYSML), and Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
• Experience defining systems architecture for developing and decomposing requirements and system functions, developing functional and physical system architectures, and defining interfaces
• Experience developing large, complex systems and holding cross-functional architecture reviews
• Experience with physical security systems
• Previous Systems Engineering experience and understanding of the Systems Engineering Process 
• Experience with Agile Development
• Experience using Requirement’s repository tools (i.e., DOORS).
• Excellent organizational and facilitation skills

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