Northrop Grumman

Director of Engineering Strategy

Northrop Grumman

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: LinthicumCaliforniaIllinoisUnited 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