Principal Data Engineer/Sr. Principal Data Engineer
Northrop Grumman14 days ago
El Segundo, CA, USA or Palmdale, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$114k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish repositories, data models, and integration patterns for manufacturing data and digitized processes.
- Define architectures, processes, interfaces, metadata, lineage, data quality, and maintainability standards for engineering and manufacturing data.
- Align independently managed data structures using authoritative sources, shared identifiers, mappings, semantics, relationships, and traceability.
- Design resilient pipelines and data services integrating measurement, equipment, sensor, process, product-location, quality, engineering, and enterprise-system data.
- Set technical direction for greenfield manufacturing-data solutions and communicate alternatives, risks, dependencies, performance, and outcomes.
- Lead architecture reviews, mentor technical contributors, and improve data-engineering maturity across the organization.
- Travel at least 10% and work the required first, second, or other assigned shift.
Requirements
- Principal level: bachelor's degree with 4 years of technical or engineering experience, master's degree with 3 years, or PhD with 0 years.
- Senior Principal level: bachelor's degree with 8 years of engineering experience, master's degree with 6 years, or PhD with 4 years.
- Advanced experience using SQL, programming or automation, and relational data modeling to deliver production data products, applications, or platforms.
- Experience owning data architecture and designing pipelines or integration approaches for complex data from multiple independently managed sources.
- Experience delivering greenfield data solutions where platforms, standards, requirements, data contracts, or endpoints were incomplete or absent.
- Ability to establish technical direction for ambiguous data problems and communicate architecture, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and performance to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret or Top Secret clearance and applicable program special access.
- Ability to work extended periods at a workstation for up to 10 hours and occasionally stand, bend, or kneel for extended periods.
- Preferred qualifications include a related STEM degree, manufacturing-data architecture experience, scalable approaches for complex technical data, data services or APIs, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, Apache Airflow, Git, monitoring, production operations, and experience with technical documents or unstructured sources.
- Active U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Primary level base salary range is $114,000.00-$171,000.00 annually; secondary level base salary range is $142,200.00-$213,400.00 annually.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The position is on-site in Palmdale, California, and may also be filled in El Segundo, California.
- The application period is estimated at 20 days from posting and may change based on business needs.
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).