Agile Product Owner (Front-End Focused) Software Engineer (Level 3/4)

Northrop Grumman•Manhattan Beach, CA

40d•Onsite

About The Position

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's Space Sector (NGSP) is seeking either a Principal Agile Product Owner (Front-End Focused) Software Engineer (T03) or Senior Principal Agile Product Owner (Front-End Focused) Software Engineer (T04) to join our Manhattan Beach, CA, Software and Controls Department which has 200+ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects. This engineering organization supports numerous programs and we have plenty of opportunity for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. We are part of a larger local engineering organization that includes Systems Engineering and Hardware Engineering staff. This overall local engineering organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers. This is an on-contract program we call “Starfleet” that is supporting a critical national security mission that is both in development and operations. This program has distributed team members located at several other Northrop Grumman sites across the US as well as at collaborating partner company sites. Some of the program's baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some software development outside of our secure facilities yet still on-site and in-person. The overall team is composed of software developers organized into agile scrum teams each with Product Owners and Scrum Masters then overall lead by a Chief Product Owner, Chief Scrum Master, Chief Engineer, and Chief Architect. The program's culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technologies, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product. What you'll get to do: Own the product backlog and ensure that the software is delivered to the desired quality and on time. Take the Software Arch vision and build the backlog to implement. Manage and own team's backlog. Understand the backlog of the team, what versions exist for the team, expected delivery timeline. Maintain and prioritize backlog through grooming. Ensure Story tickets meet the need to fulfill Features and Capabilities. Track team dependencies in Jira tickets and roadmap. Technical and collaborative reviews, design, implementation, and verification of team's scope. Responsible for software product, including performance, schedule, and risk. Support User Engagements for topics pertaining to their team. Track day-to-day team development. Collaborate with Architects and CPO to ensure product development aligns to goals. Understand the interdependencies on other guilds or CDGs. Facilitate coordination between the corresponding guilds and CDGs. Guiding software development and implementation. Accountable for the transition of the software product to Operations (i.e. did the team build the right product and does it work?) Ensure the production of software products meets Definition of Done, including all necessary documentation. Inform CPO, CE, and PM when development goals cannot be achieved based on team skill sets. Collaborate with Architect to develop Product Requirement definitions. This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Requirements

Principal Agile Product Owner (T03) : Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience; Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience; PhD with 1 year of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Senior Principal Agile Product Owner (T04) : Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience; Master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience; PhD with 4 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Active TS/SCI clearance required at time of application, and the ability to obtain/pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
Experience with Agile principles, processes, and tools
Experience developing applications in Java
Experience developing applications in a containerized architecture using Docker and Kubernetes
Experience developing applications on a Linux/Unix operating system

Nice To Haves

Degree in STEM
Prior completed Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
Prior experience as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master
Experience developing front-end applications in two or more of the following: Typescript, React, Lit, Node.js, Angular
Prior engineering or development experience within the Space Industry
Ability to effectively communicate and present to program management and customers
Ability to effectively write technical documentation
Experience sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a collaborative environment
At least 3 years of experience developing object-oriented applications in Java
At least 3 years of experience developing applications on Linux/Unix operating systems including proficiency with OS commands and shell scripting
At least 3 years of experience developing in environment using Docker and Kubernetes
Strong analytical, problem-solving, testing, and troubleshooting skills
Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, and networking
Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
Active Security+ (or similar) certification
Ability to travel

Responsibilities

Own the product backlog and ensure that the software is delivered to the desired quality and on time.
Take the Software Arch vision and build the backlog to implement.
Manage and own team's backlog.
Understand the backlog of the team, what versions exist for the team, expected delivery timeline.
Maintain and prioritize backlog through grooming.
Ensure Story tickets meet the need to fulfill Features and Capabilities.
Track team dependencies in Jira tickets and roadmap.
Technical and collaborative reviews, design, implementation, and verification of team's scope.
Responsible for software product, including performance, schedule, and risk.
Support User Engagements for topics pertaining to their team.
Track day-to-day team development.
Collaborate with Architects and CPO to ensure product development aligns to goals.
Understand the interdependencies on other guilds or CDGs.
Facilitate coordination between the corresponding guilds and CDGs.
Guiding software development and implementation.
Accountable for the transition of the software product to Operations (i.e. did the team build the right product and does it work?)
Ensure the production of software products meets Definition of Done, including all necessary documentation.
Inform CPO, CE, and PM when development goals cannot be achieved based on team skill sets.
Collaborate with Architect to develop Product Requirement definitions.