Sentinel – Sr. Staff Engineer Systems Architect (7725(

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 Sr. Staff Engineer Systems Architect to join the Systems Engineering Team (SET). This position is in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel program.   

What You’ll Get To Do:

• Lead the standup and growth of multiple large scale software factories used by software teams
• Develop and maintain continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, and continuous deployment pipeline systems
• Utilize strong communication skills to work with Software IPT, chief engineers, and development teams
• Maintain continuous operation of multi-user systems, including coordination with network administrators.  
• The selected candidate should thrive in an environment with, diverse assignments and collaborative/team settings across all levels
• Support Agile Software/Hardware teams on pipeline builds, software installation, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring of the Software build *Integration*
• Ensures metrics and data holistically make sense for the program horizontally and vertically (align with reality – able to sense-make)
• Supports overall resolution of analysis of alternatives for complex technical issues on program as delegated
• Ensures software mission operational needs meets system capabilities, and constraints including stakeholder analysis and development of system architecture trades to meet mission capability
• Evaluates issues across software interfaces and strategically drives software design margin consistent with planned risk handling in partnership with the Office of Chief Engineer and IFC Lead
• Performs trade studies, RFIs, writes white papers, and provides technical responses as needed to make an architectural decision or to prove an approach
• Identifies and elevates risks/issues, schedule impacts as appropriate
• This role will interface with the Chief Architect and Chief Software Engineer to understand and execute their technical direction with the various IPT software and architecture teams.
• Work with IPTs to determine the time phasing of architectural features and design parameters in the IFC plan.
• This role will interface with the MBRIA team and Thread Leads to understand the system-level capabilities and develop the plan needed to time phase them and ensure the operational end state of the weapon system is met.
• Documents the overall program software strategy determined from the preceding activities including all assumptions, & decisions (along with the rationale for any decisions or tailoring)
• Reviews and assesses program Software Change Requests (technical, and cost/schedule) impacts as delegated from the Software Chief Engineer
• Supports strategic down and in execution of the systems and software program strategic IFC Roadmap of behalf of the IFC lead and Chief Software Engineer, ensuring appropriate functional intent is met
• Performs technical coordination with architects and system engineers on software functionality and clarification to ensure end to end software planning is on track, meets appropriate level of rigor for Design Assurance Level, and Criticality
• Ensures software designs, including supplier furnished data, conform to the program established architecture and requirements baseline unless divergence is authorized by the responsible technical change control authority
• Provides down and in horizontal visibility and heading checks of software development, as required, during planning, horizontal integration, and buildup of IFC and Milestone execution
• Provides support for Joint Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Architecture, Mission Defense, and other joint technical working groups as necessary
• Supports and/or presents senior level technical discussions as needed, with the ability to explain impacts of technical decisions at both senior executive level and deep technical level customer meetings/boards as required (i.e. Milestone Program Event reviews, IFC lockdowns, Technical Review Boards, etc) which may include customer representatives

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 of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum14 years of software development or systems engineering experience; 12 years with a Master's; or 18 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Active Secret clearance with adjudication within the past 6 years and the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP)
• Experience with containers and orchestration using Docker or Kubernetes and/or automation scripting to improve operational efficiencies
• Experience with software development build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant) and continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins,TeamCity, GitLab)
• Extensive experience in Linux/ Windows Administration, experience with Virtualization technology
• Experience administering and configuring the full Atlassian tool suite (Confluence, JIRA, GIT, Crucible, FishEye, Crowd)
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II (ie. Security+ CE, SSCP, GSEC, etc) certification within the first 90 days
• Proven Agile or SAFE experience on a large-scale program

Preferred Qualifications:

• Keen understanding of the software development life cycle
• Experience with PlatformOne.
• Extensive experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or an equivalent
• Experience or Certification with AWS technology.
• Experience with developing formal builds within the DoD industry
• Certification from VMWare
• Current DoD 8570 IAT II certification
• An active Top Secret clearance with adjudication within the past 5 years

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Salary Range: $154,300 USD - $231,500 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.