Sentinel (GBSD) Principal/Sr Principal Systems Engineer Architect – Agile Product Owner (7811,7812,7813)

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.

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 Space Systems is seeking a Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer Architect - Agile Product Owner. This position will be located in Roy, UT and will support the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package. This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

What you’ll get to do:

Incumbent represents Product Management and the voice of customers on their assigned Digital Engineering Environment (DEE) Agile product development scrum team or teams. Collaborates with GBSD’s Product Manager, System Architect or Engineer, product development team scrum master(s) and product systems analysts to define the work so that the integrated team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period. Product owner owns the team backlog. Prioritizes key areas of work during a program increment, ensures that the DEE product development team understands the intent and requirements of feature and user story definitions, and that the team is aligned on all acceptance criteria. Represents customer interests and continuously dictates team backlog priorities

Responsibilities may include any or all of the following:

• Maintain structure and arrangement of the C&L Cameo Model and remove inconsistent architectural artifacts
• Create new and adapt existing models, methods, and analysis capabilities to conduct studies to support the design, development, and assessment of advanced system design concepts and technologies
• Perform routine audits and provide findings to delinquent architects on the team
• Remove all deprecated and duplicative design elements and errant relationships
• Prepare model for final Major Design Review deliveries including construction of C&L Architectural Overview diagrams and all MDR dashboards
• Responsible for initial and subsequent synchronizations of data into the model from external databases.
• Identify areas and methods for improvement on overall model organization and performance
• Serve as direct point of contact to the System and other IPT-level model governors and model governance boards. Ensures C&L architecture team consistency to overall Program Style and process guides

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 9/80A. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal level or level Sr. Principal level.

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum 5 years of related experience; 3 years with a Master’s (Sr. Principal level requires 9 years with a Bachelor’s degree; 7 years with a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD)
• US Citizenship with ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance and Special Program Access
• Technical experience with concentration in design, development, integration, implementation, and operations of complex large-scale information systems and technologies
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DOD security clearance within 6 years
• Active SAFe Agilist and/or Scrum master and/or Product Owner certifications
• Strong leadership, experience building agile teams; excellent written and oral communications skills; emphasis on drawing, modeling and communicating systems engineering
• Ability to provide total system perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of hardware and software components for a project
• Ability to independently prioritize, plan and execute work tasks in a rapidly changing environment
• Prior experience supporting various classified environments and meeting government and security requirements including SAP, JSIG, JAFAN 6/3, STIG, RMF, ICD 705 and DFARS
• Any technical experience with SAP, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Engineering Solutions, Product Line Engineering, TeamCenter Enterprise, Mobile Applications, Extranet Solutions, or Collaboration Solutions
• Knowledge of two or more of the following technical domains: software, IT infrastructure, network, security, business analytics, mobility, virtualization, cloud technologies

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Salary Range: $87,600 USD - $131,400 USD

Salary Range 2: $108,600 USD - $163,000 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/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.