Principal Mission Architect Engineer - TS/SCI

Northrop Grumman•Chantilly, VA

35d

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. We have an opening for a Ground System Engineering (GSE) Deputy (T03) to join our team in Chantilly, VA In this role you will assist the Ground System Engineer (GSE) in leading a multi-disciplined and geographically dispersed team of systems engineers supporting the program's Ground software design/development as well as requirement verification and integration. What you'll get to do: Work alongside software development leadership (Product Owners, Product Manager, Development Lead) to ensure priorities are properly understood, adhered to, and implemented by software developers. Assist the GSE Lead in leading the system engineering team in the design of new mission capabilities and features. Assist in requirement verification and traceability practices. Assist in synchronization of design for ground functionality in integration and test verification. Support the program's quarterly design milestone events in collaboration with the program Ground Architect. These milestone meetings drive design efforts for the following quarterly development cycle.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5 years of relevant experience; Master's degree in STEM with 3 years of relevant experience; PhD in STEM with no experience.
Top Secret / SCI clearance required at the time of application, and the ability to program clearance
Proven experience in Systems Engineering leadership for ground systems
Mission planning and/or ground operations experience
Space domain (i.e. orbit regimes), orbital/flight dynamics, and/or mission data processing experience
Ability to communicate and drive solutions in ambiguous agile environment
Ability to travel 10% of the time
Must have U.S. Citizenship with active or current TS/SCI Clearance at time of application

Nice To Haves

Organizational abilities proven by experience providing customer deliverables and managing contractual deadlines
Comfortable and confident presenting information from Microsoft PowerPoint to medium to large audiences (30+ people)
Experience leading teams composing requirements and providing verification and validation traceability
Competency of Agile process and tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket (Atlassian tools)
Experience leading milestone Systems Engineering reviews such as Preliminary or Critical Design Reviews
Experience engaging with and leading geographically dispersed team

Responsibilities

Work alongside software development leadership (Product Owners, Product Manager, Development Lead) to ensure priorities are properly understood, adhered to, and implemented by software developers.
Assist the GSE Lead in leading the system engineering team in the design of new mission capabilities and features.
Assist in requirement verification and traceability practices.
Assist in synchronization of design for ground functionality in integration and test verification.
Support the program's quarterly design milestone events in collaboration with the program Ground Architect. These milestone meetings drive design efforts for the following quarterly development cycle.