Sr Principal Information Systems Project Manager
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr Principal Information Systems Project Manager to lead projects for designing, building, integrating, delivering, and sustaining high-performance computing (HPC) environments supporting a new ground-based radar system for Space Domain Awareness. The role leads cross-functional IT and engineering teams, defines technical objectives, and ensures solutions meet schedule, budget, performance, quality, and security requirements. The position reports directly to the Compute Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead, who oversees multiple Information Systems projects, and collaborates with peer project managers. The successful candidate leads one or more infrastructure projects across functional organizations, owns delivery of HPC solutions, and provides technical and analytical guidance to a multidisciplinary team of approximately 15 members. The role also serves as a primary technical and project contact on assigned projects and contracts, communicates status and recommendations to internal leadership and external customers, and identifies improvements based on developments in IT, HPC, and cybersecurity. Travel is 10%. An active U.S. Government Secret clearance, current and within scope, is required at application; U.S. citizenship is required. Relocation assistance may be available.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field and 8 years of professional experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years, or a Ph.D. and 4 years.
- Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at application, current and within scope.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Experience leading or managing IT projects involving high-performance computing environments.
- Experience leading or managing IT projects involving GPGPU and multi-node processing architectures.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and execution.
- Hands-on experience with Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to clearly communicate and present technical approaches, trade studies, and findings.
- Ability to travel 10% domestically or internationally.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with HPE high-performance computing platforms, such as HPE HCP.
- Background in Red Hat Linux administration and integration.
- Background in networking design and configuration.
- Background in cybersecurity and secure infrastructure design.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on complex DoD or radar/SDA programs.
- Familiarity with MBSE and requirements management tools and processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead one or more IT infrastructure projects spanning multiple functional organizations.
- Collaborate with the Compute IPT lead and peer project managers on shared personnel resource utilization and task prioritization.
- Own the infrastructure design, build, integration, and delivery of HPC solutions supporting SDA ground-based radar missions.
- Develop and maintain project execution plans, schedules, and milestones.
- Identify and coordinate technical and business resources across systems administration, networking, hardware, software development, cybersecurity, requirements engineering, and MBSE systems engineering.
- Ensure projects meet cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance goals.
- Make technical decisions and leverage team expertise in HPC, Red Hat Linux, networking, and cybersecurity to solve complex problems.
- Provide technical and analytical guidance; mentor and direct the work of multidisciplinary team members, approximately 15 people.
- Determine technical objectives and solution approaches with latitude.
- Represent the organization as the primary technical and project contact on assigned contracts and projects.
- Prepare and deliver technical briefings, status updates, and recommendations to internal leadership and external customers.
- Stay current on advances in IT, HPC, and cybersecurity and recommend architecture and process improvements.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
