Staff Engineer Data
Northrop Grumman1 day ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$161k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and govern a unified Palantir Foundry ontology strategy, including modeling standards, naming conventions, object lifecycle governance, documentation, and technical-debt remediation.
- Define reference architecture patterns for pipelines, transforms, and integrations and serve as the final technical reviewer for new solution designs.
- Support sustainment teams as the primary architecture escalation point and improve issue resolution through documentation, dependency clarity, and standardized patterns.
- Lead Foundry impact assessment, migration planning, risk mitigation, cutover coordination, and post-migration validation for the ERP migration.
- Establish and maintain an architecture repository containing standards, patterns, diagrams, decision records, and other durable documentation.
- Coordinate architecture decisions across portfolio leads, application owners, developers, data engineers, business stakeholders, and ERP program leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12+ years of experience in data or platform architecture, or a master’s degree and 10+ years of experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment.
- Significant hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including ontology design, pipelines, transforms, and the application layer.
- Experience designing or governing enterprise ontologies or data models across multiple applications, business units, or functional domains.
- Experience leading or significantly contributing to a major system or platform migration involving cross-functional coordination.
- Strong software development, architecture, database, and data architecture background.
- Ability to evaluate solution options across Palantir Foundry, SAP, existing applications, and other technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to transform inconsistent environments into documented, governed, and maintainable architectures.
- Ability to act as a neutral technical authority, influence without direct reporting authority, uphold standards, and communicate with technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include SAP or major ERP experience, manufacturing, supply chain, or defense/aerospace experience, architecture governance experience, organizational change management familiarity, and Palantir Foundry certifications or equivalent platform depth.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, with a remote work schedule potentially available.
- Exceptional benefits including health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off.
- 9/80 work schedule and a 401k matching program.
- Learning opportunities, varied projects and customer exposure, and a collaborative team environment.
- The role requires approximately 10% travel and provides no relocation assistance.
Categories
Data Engineering
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).