
Senior Principal Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Oklahoma City • California • Oklahoma • United States
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Salary
💰 $116,300 - $213,400 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Perform requirements development, allocation, verification/validation planning and manage interface definition efforts
- Write complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports
- Support interface/communication with program, functional and subsystem leads
- Maintain Systems Engineering artifacts following proper configuration management procedures
- Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure proper verification and validation of Systems Engineering artifacts
- Possess strong interpersonal and leadership skills with excellent communications skills to support coordination across IPTs and with external customers
- Solicit input from various stakeholders and team members to synthesize data and communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Manage Control Accounts as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for scope assigned, delivering all team deliverables on time and within cost, while meeting contractual programmatic and technical requirements and stakeholder expectations, and measure and report Earned Value (EV) performance
- Ensure technical quality, performance, cost and schedule for product team content on the program, in alignment with Engineering and Division processes, program policies, and industry best standards
- Adhere to the IPT Statement of Work (SOW) and perform rigorous change management in coordination with program leadership
- Identification of resources, including staffing, required to complete product team deliverables, and communicate the need in a timely manner to enable onboarding of the resources early enough to meet program objectives
- Coordinate with Functional Management to staff the IPT
- Coordinate technical, cost, and schedule integration across NG programs and other inter-program groups
- Conduct thorough risk & opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation and realization
- Identify and proactively address organizational and program impacts through a systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the organization
- Manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that department and program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets stakeholder needs
- Identify, orchestrate, coordinate and control the management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout their life cycle to achieve successful program completion
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline with 8 years of related experience OR Master of Science degree in a STEM discipline with 6 years of related experience or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related experience
- Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation)
- Experience in requirements and verification management in DOORS
- Experience with requirement decomposition and traceability from System to Unit/Supplier Specifications
- Experience with managing suppliers with technical requirements and verification expectations
- Experience with software development
- Experience with HW/SW integration testing
- Experience with Agile execution and leading Scrum teams
- Experience with Python or other scripting language
- Experience managing EVMS Control Accounts as a Control Account Manager (CAM)
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
requirements developmentverification managementDOORSrequirement decompositiontraceabilityHW/SW integration testingAgile executionScrumPythonEarned Value Management System (EVMS)
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsleadership skillscommunication skillsstakeholder managementproblem resolutionrisk managementorganizational skillscoordinationsynthesis of datachange management
Certifications
Bachelor of Science degreeMaster of Science degreePhDSecret clearance