Northrop Grumman

Staff Software Architect

Northrop Grumman

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: El Segundo • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $177,000 - $265,600 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Communicating with customers, stakeholders, software developers, system engineers, and senior leadership to collect mission requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, develop feature roadmaps, and product strategy.
  • Shaping the long-term technical strategy to evolve and deliver software architecture to enable various DoD missions.
  • Lead mission decomposition into functions, requirements, interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers.
  • Ensure the autonomy architecture remains aligned with Government Reference Architectures (GRAs).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and at least 12 years’ experience, or STEM master’s degree with 10 years’ experience, or a STEM PHD with 8 years’ experience.
  • Experience with Agile best practices and processes; tasking, accountability, interception, process enforcement
  • Experience designing and architecting on-board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability.
  • Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/network development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and V&V
  • Experience designing micro-service based containerized software using open standards.
  • Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
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

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Hard Skills & Tools
software architectureAgile best practicesmission system software designmicro-service architecturecontainerizationsoftware development life cyclecoding standardssource control managementbuild processesverification and validation (V&V)
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipstakeholder engagementstrategic planningrequirements gatheringtask accountabilityprocess enforcement
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in STEMMaster’s Degree in STEMPhD in STEMSecret clearance