Staff Training Systems Architect (Melbourne FL)

Northrop Grumman•Melbourne, FL

6d•$152,900 - $229,300•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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Training Systems Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL. In this role, you will fully utilize your ability to leverage “Systems thinking” -- develop, document, and maintain a big picture understanding of how a device fits into the broader system design and supports the customer’s expectations of the system. Therefore your responsibility will be to perform system engineering activities for all levels of a total system product, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, and maintenance. Additionally, you will lead the development of use cases and delivery of systems engineering artifacts and will drive the definition of Features and Subsystem Features to be developed by program Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to implement customer-requested capabilities. Throughout, you will need to effectively communicate the system architecture and feature plan to a diverse group of customers, suppliers, leadership, stakeholders, developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users.

Requirements

Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience
Active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Nice To Haves

Experience with training systems
Understanding of the training system lifecycle
Experience with aircrew simulator design and development

Responsibilities

Perform system engineering activities for all levels of a total system product, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, and maintenance.
Lead the development of use cases and delivery of systems engineering artifacts.
Drive the definition of Features and Subsystem Features to be developed by program Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to implement customer-requested capabilities.
Effectively communicate the system architecture and feature plan to a diverse group of customers, suppliers, leadership, stakeholders, developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users.
Leads functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software features.
Support Feature Definition, management, analysis, and traceability, to translate customer requirements and CONOPS into Features, and further allocate to lower levels.
Coordinate across ARTs to ensure feature definition meets architecture expectations.
Support overall verification planning and system sell off activities.
Work on an agile team utilizing Jira to track work progress.