Senior Principal Systems Architect (Melbourne FL)

Northrop Grumman • Melbourne, FL

21h • $122,800 - $184,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is hiring a Senior Principal Systems Architect - MBSE CAMEO Administrator for its Systems Engineering organization in Melbourne, Florida. The role leads implementation, governance, and optimization of the CAMEO modeling environment, maintaining configuration management practices, enforcing modeling standards, and integrating CAMEO to support traceability across requirements, design, verification, and validation activities. Success requires deep MBSE expertise, advanced CAMEO Systems Modeler proficiency, strong scripting abilities, and experience delivering reliable, secure, and scalable modeling solutions in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. The position requires an active interim U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

Requirements

• A Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military or professional experience; or a master's degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military or professional experience; or a Ph.D. and at least 4 years of relevant military or professional experience.
• Proficiency with CAMEO Systems Modeler.
• Experience establishing and enforcing modeling standards, such as naming conventions, diagram usage, and documentation practices.
• An active interim U.S. Government Top Secret clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret clearance within a reasonable time as determined by business needs.

Nice To Haves

• Expert-level knowledge of CAMEO meta-chain navigation for generating custom queries.
• Experience with black-box and white-box modeling.
• Experience applying MBSE concepts throughout the system life cycle, including requirements, architecture, design, verification, and validation.
• Python or JavaScript scripting skills for automating repetitive modeling tasks.
• Experience with CAMEO configuration management, including branching and merging strategies, lock policies, and model baselines aligned with project governance.
• Expert knowledge of DoDAF or SysML.

Responsibilities

• Install, patch, upgrade, and maintain CAMEO tools and licenses.
• Define and enforce modeling standards, profiles, and libraries, and conduct audits.
• Administer repositories, branching and merging policies, baselines, and change tracking.
• Manage role-based permissions, backups, and audit logs.
• Integrate CAMEO with requirements, PLM, ALM, and simulation tools using OSLC or REST.
• Create and maintain Python or JavaScript scripts for validation, reporting, and CI/CD.
• Provide onboarding, workshops, day-to-day user assistance, and documentation.
• Define validation rules, run automated checks, and report findings.
• Optimize large models, plan capacity, and implement scaling strategies.
• Track MBSE trends and CAMEO releases, and propose process and tool enhancements.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.
• Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.
• Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for long-term incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior