Principal DOORS Systems Engineer/ Sr. Principal DOORS 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, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems – Launch and Missile Defense Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a Principal DOORS Systems Engineer/ Sr. Principal DOORS Systems Engineer to support the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program.  You will be joining our team of qualified, diverse individuals.

The NGI DOORS engineer is part of the Digital Engineering team supporting all aspects of the NGI program. This position requires someone that is comfortable working in a very dynamic Agile environment, where tasking may change week to week, sometimes day to day.

Essential Functions:

• DOORS importing/exporting, updating training materials, and acting as an interface to other DOORS users (internal and external), managing account access, and creating archives.
• Maintaining consistent practices within the DOORS environment, which includes data created internal to programs and modules received from the customer and subcontractors.
• Driving the completeness and consistency of attributes and linkages within programs’ DOORS environments
• Performing DOORS administration; creating modules for sites; synchronizing modules between sites; exporting DOORS reports (e.g., specifications traceability and metrics); and working user problems (e.g., installation, use of Change Proposal System)
• Interact with other disciplines, customers, management and peers to ensure the requirements and interfaces are clear, concise and captured in a DOORS database.
• Provide cross functional support for requirements management utilizing IBM Rational Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) as an administrator on multiple programs.

Basic Qualifications:

This position may be filled at either a Principal DOORS Systems Engineer or a Sr. Principal DOORS Systems Engineer level.

Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 5 years’ experience; 3 years with Masters; 0 with PHD
• Independent problem-solving skills, strong analytical abilities, and creativity
• Database archiving and user-access management to include importing data into a database.
• Must have US Citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance.
• IBM DOORS Administration experience
• IBM DOORS DXL scripting experience
• Current or active Secret Clearance

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 9 years’ experience; 7 years with Masters; 4 with PHD
• Independent problem-solving skills, strong analytical abilities, and creativity
• Database archiving and user-access management to include importing data into a database.
• Must have US Citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance.
• IBM DOORS Administration experience
• IBM DOORS DXL scripting experience
• Current or active Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Systems Engineering principles.
• Requirements and data management experience on large complex development programs
• Experience coding in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Javascript
• Experience exporting DOORS data using IBM Rational Publishing Engineer

Salary Range: $95,100 USD - $142,700 USD

Salary Range 2: $117,900 USD - $176,900 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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