Principal Engineer Data-19914
Northrop Grumman3 days ago
Roy, UT, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$98k - $148k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines and reusable components for ingestion, transformation, and publishing.
- Develop shared connectors, templates, configuration-driven patterns, and common data engineering frameworks.
- Translate requirements from platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders into robust pipelines and reusable components.
- Ensure pipelines are secure, performant, testable, observable, and supported by appropriate logging, metrics, and error handling.
- Create documentation, examples, and proof-of-concept implementations to accelerate adoption of common patterns.
- Integrate data quality, governance, and compliance checks into pipelines and components.
- Support pipeline operations through orchestration, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 3+ years, or PhD with 1+ years; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a formal degree.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance and Special Access Program approval.
- Hands-on experience building ingestion, transformation, and publishing data pipelines and reusable data engineering components.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems of record into analytical or operational pipelines.
- Software engineering experience with Git, code reviews, automated testing, and documentation.
- Understanding of databases, pipeline orchestration, scripting languages, observability, logging, metrics, and error handling.
- Ability to collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders.
- Preferred experience includes shared data engineering frameworks, Apache Spark/Delta Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, DAG-based workflows, streaming and batch processing, data quality, governance, and internal enablement materials.
- Preferred active Secret clearance with a closed investigation completed within the last six years.
Benefits
- Primary base salary range is $98,400.00–$147,600.00 annually.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses.
- The role requires travel approximately 10% of the time and is located in Roy, Utah.
- U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring government clearance.
Tech Stack
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).