Sentinel Systems Engineering Manager 2 - Systems Architect Lead-18587

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: SAP

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking to hire a Command Systems - Systems Engineering Architect Manager 2 in support of the Sentinel Program. This position will be located in Roy, Utah. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You Will Get To Do:

As the Systems Engineering Architect Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of approximately 15 systems engineers across multiple domains and disciplines. The successful candidate should be detailed oriented, able to work collaboratively with multiple remote teams, and have shown success in driving execution in past roles.

Specific duties to include, but not limited to the following:

• Drive architecture design documentation, analyses, and trade studies to inform lower-level system decomposition and design

• Lead a team of architects to prioritize risks/opportunities in the system architecture to design closure through documentation

• Coordinate and support architect support across multiple working groups and customer bases to ensure the Command System design is communicated and meets customer requirements

• Support the Operating Unit programmatic execution to include program integration within the Business Unit, Suppliers, Customers and other Stakeholders as necessary.

• Assemble and lead cross functional teams to develop value stream integration and process development, integrating across Business Units (Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Test, Software).

• Ensure program schedules and plans are aligned and architecture decisions are established in support of development for major program milestones

• Requirements analysis, review and document source data for requirements, generate requirements verification, and develop system architecture

• Interface with subject matter experts, analysts, architects, designers, system engineers and specialty engineers to capture Sentinel Node structure and behavior across value stream artifacts

• Coordinate with sub-contracted product teams to drive coherence with the prime baseline

The selected candidate will also be responsible for a Systems Engineering discipline Section within the SDS Systems Engineering organization and will report directly to an SDS Systems Engineering Department Manager. You will provide career mentorship and operational support to a Functional Home Room (FHR) team (Section) of between 8 and 12 Individual Contributors (ICs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Key FHR responsibilities will be personnel performance management, process familiarization and training for Section members, as well as staffing of roles on projects.

As a Section Manager you will be expected to spend roughly 20% of your effort on Functional Homeroom responsibilities with 80% of your efforts focused on a technical assignment as the Systems Engineering Value Stream Lead.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and a minimum 8 years of related experience or master’s degree with 4 years of related experience

• US Citizenship with Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years and Active Sentinel special access clearance (PAR).

• Experience as an EVMS Control Account Manager (CAM)

• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and using MBSE to decompose and define system/product functionality

• Experience in evaluating/writing requirements, leading small architecture teams, decomposing functionality in CAMEO.

• Experience using DOORS to manage requirements and specification baselines

• Experience with task management tools (preferably JIRA) and EVMS

• Interface with program and customer personnel

• Experience with developing system/LRU level architectures and interfaces.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Familiar with ground systems and driving command and control architecture development

• Proven leader, problem solver, strong work ethic, excellent communications and interpersonal skills for close work with teammates, stakeholders and customers.

• Strong technical leadership and experience managing a small team

• Familiarity with Northrop Grumman build execution, processes, procedures, tools and metric

• Experience with complex system development on large programs.

• MBSE experience (2+ years).

• 2 + years of experience managing people.

• Strong written and oral communications skills

Primary Level Salary Range: $139,100.00 - $208,700.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.