Sr Principal Software Engineer – SW Product Owner (26-435)
Northrop Grumman2 days ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$129k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as Product Owner and technical lead for a Global software team designing, developing, integrating, and testing a large distributed Java system.
- Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, mentorship, technical consulting, and problem resolution for cross-functional software teams and stakeholders.
- Analyze system performance, identify root causes, recommend solutions, and drive implementation and maintainability improvements.
- Gather and refine stakeholder requirements, prioritize stories and tasks, define acceptance criteria, and maintain a transparent product backlog.
- Support software design, implementation, testing, integration, deployment, troubleshooting, user support, and MDA projects and experiments.
- Collaborate with Government customers, subject matter experts, system users, regional teams, and software leadership on capabilities, trade-offs, standards, and results.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field with 8 years of experience; or a related master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience; or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Current, active, in-scope Government-issued Top Secret security clearance required at the time of application and to start.
- Experience as a software leader in a role such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, or similar technical leadership position.
- Proficiency in Java for designing, developing, and testing applications in large-scale distributed environments.
- Experience developing in Unix/Linux environments and strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, testing, and debugging.
- Knowledge of Agile software development practices, software coding standards, configuration management, and structured development processes.
- Strong problem-solving, written communication, oral communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Preferred qualifications include software architecture experience, Service-Oriented Architecture principles, TDD and continuous integration experience, Windows experience, application deployment and troubleshooting, and experience with Eclipse IDE, Maven, and Git.
- Preferred experience includes distributed-system algorithms, messaging interfaces, peer reviews, data and performance analysis, backlog refinement, sprint execution, and retrospectives.
Benefits
- Health plan, savings plan, paid time off, education assistance, training and development, flexible work arrangements, company-paid holidays, and additional insurance coverage.
- Internal-only position available exclusively to current and active C2BMC personnel.
- On-site work in Colorado Springs, Colorado with no remote option and no relocation assistance.
- Travel required approximately 10% of the time, with possible non-standard work hours during event execution.
- Top Secret clearance required to start.
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).