Ground Software Lead Engineer/Architect
Northrop Grumman4 days ago
Morrisville, NC, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$167k - $289k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead software reuse strategies and product trade studies to improve efficiency, commonality, and maintainability.
- Allocate system requirements into software capabilities and features and maintain software buildup plans and capability roadmaps.
- Review element- and component-level features for alignment with higher-level capabilities and define measurable success criteria.
- Contribute to scalable and adaptable software framework concepts across programs.
- Support Basis of Proposal Estimates, including ground software cost estimates.
- Own software metrics reporting and configure Jira dashboards and reports for execution visibility and data-driven decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12 or more years of software engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 10 or more years, or a Ph.D. with 8 or more years.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance at application and ability and willingness to obtain Special Program Access.
- Experience developing capability roadmaps, decomposing capabilities into features, and defining measurable feature success criteria.
- Experience architecting and designing software for complex, mission-critical systems.
- Experience with Agile software development lifecycles, backlog refinement, and iterative delivery.
- Experience integrating or leveraging third-party software frameworks.
- Proficiency with Jira for software implementation planning, tracking, and metrics reporting.
- Experience with CAMEO or similar model-based systems engineering tools.
- Preferred: software cost estimation, proposal support, Product Owner or software backlog management experience, and Control Account Manager experience.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Onsite position available in Gilbert, Arizona; Redondo Beach, California; Morrisville, North Carolina; or Dulles, Virginia.
- Requires an active Top Secret clearance at start and includes approximately 10% travel.
- 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.
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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).