Space Deputy Product Owner/Staff Systems Engineer

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, but they’re also making history.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks to fill a Deputy Product Owner/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU). This position can be filled at our Fairfax, VA, Morrisville, NC, or Linthicum, MD offices.

This individual will clearly demonstrate strong leadership skills that achieve sustainable, top performance. They will have a proven, track record as an effective communicator and problem-solver who is able to develop and maintain strong working relationships with both internal and external shareholders. In addition, they will demonstrate a commitment to ethics and integrity, and will have the capability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business. This candidate will demonstrate broad abilities that are balanced between interpersonal, business, and technical capabilities. There will be opportunity to operate in a team environment and to collaborate across division business areas, as required, to accomplish team goals.

Position Overview:

As a Command and Control(C2) Deputy Product Owner, you’ll support the C2 Product owner by providing technical product team leadership oversight. You will be responsible for supporting the C2 SW product development roadmap, providing SW development guidance to the team, leading planning increments, providing agile planning and execution, resolving technical issues that create roadblocks for development, supporting upcoming proposals, and supporting product owner in other tasks as needed.

Basic Job Responsibilities:

• Managing C2 backlog, release planning, and increment planning
• Providing planning, and execution using JIRA and Confluence
• Must have familiarity with Requirements, ICDs, MARs, SW development, and test development.
• Experience leading an agile SW development team as a scrum master/ Deputy Product Owner.
• Extensive Experience and understanding of AGILE/SCRUM methodology.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or experience in lieu of degree is acceptable.
• 14 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline; 12 years of relevant experience with a Masters' degree; 9 years of relevant experience with a PhD; 18 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.
• Experience in SW development or experience leading a SW development team.
• Experience with Ground Systems (space or satellite knowledge highly preferred)
• Active TS/SCI or TS with SCI eligibility, and willing to sit for a polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS/Cloud experience
• Expertise in Cornerstone SW development
• Expertise in AMP SW development activities 
• Expertise in MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) tools, frameworks, languages, and concepts.

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