
Director of Engineering Strategy
Northrop Grumman
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Linthicum • California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $194,600 - $292,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Drive E&S long term strategy by completing market assessments, technology roadmaps, and identification of opportunities in support of market strategy to support growth and profitability.
- Maintain 10-year pipeline roadmap, including emerging market opportunities and upcoming tool/system integration
- Leads collaborative partnership endeavors with stakeholders across the Sector and company to understand key drivers to business success and enhance the probability of meeting E&S longer-term goals.
- Defines, in strong collaboration with other groups, our engineering strategy including near-, mid-, and long-term actions necessary to achieve that strategy.
- Develops coordinated efforts for new and emerging markets and collaborates with strategic investment to ensure the strategic plan has appropriate funding in place to support E&S and Mission System’s goals.
- Partners and collaborates with Strategy and Mission Solutions organizations to understand technical product roadmaps, customer mission needs, and other customer feedback to define and employ strategy
- Partner with other industries and academia to understand current & future ways of doing business, performing engineering, and skillset development to inform our strategy
- Support impact and growth in engineering for informed cost and performance decisions, ensuring seamless, data-driven optimization for scalable delivery across environments.
- Provide leadership for the team’s sector-wide strategic actions to improve engineering competitiveness and sustained growth through strong internal and external partners, aligned roadmaps and cross-functional partnerships, with reusable engineering assets and workflows enhancing efficiency and agility and cost.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with minimum of 10 years of experience, or a Master's degree with minimum 8 years of experience, or a PhD with minimum 6 years of experience in STEM related technical fields
- A minimum of 5 years demonstrated success leading and managing diverse technical teams that work on large and/or complex systems with mechanical, electrical, and software elements.
- Prior experience in strategy and/or market development
- Experience working across multiple lines of business and functional disciplines (e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, business management, strategy & business development)
- Experience with internal (internal to the corporation) projects
- Technical experience in any combination of Systems, Software, Hardware, or Cybersecurity engineering with understanding of engineering processes
- Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes, engineering metrics, hiring, staffing, tools and training resources
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and implement change while challenging traditional ways of doing business
- Ability to operate independently based on strategic objectives, work in a team environment, and collaborate across the corporation as required to accomplish team goals
- A broad skill set that is balanced between technical, interpersonal, and business capabilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- A current/active DoW Secret Clearance is required; OR DoE Equivalent
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
market assessmentstechnology roadmapsengineering strategySystems engineeringSoftware engineeringHardware engineeringCybersecurity engineeringengineering processesengineering metricsproject management
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationinnovationcommunicationteamworkstrategic thinkingproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillschange managementcross-functional partnership
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePhDDoW Secret ClearanceDoE Equivalent