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Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Principal Systems Engineer / Senior Principal Systems Engineer: Data Analyst

Data Analysis +1Updated on Nov 3
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • For Principal Systems Engineer 3: a Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related professional or military experience in Systems Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, or Data Science; or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of that experience; or a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline and 1 year of that experience.
  • For Senior Principal Systems Engineer 4: a Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related professional or military experience in Systems Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, or Data Science; or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of that experience; or a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline and 4 years of that experience.
  • Proficient or advanced Python skills and comfort working with large production codebases.
  • Experience with relational database design.
  • Proficient SQL skills and comfort with complex joins.
  • Comfort working with extract, transform, and load (ETL) data pipelines that load structured data stores for analytics and reporting.
  • Comfort with version control, including Git, branching strategies, and code review.
  • Strong analytics skills, including exploratory data analysis, summarization, trend detection, and anomaly or outlier identification; ability to frame and answer engineering or business questions with appropriate metrics, statistical methods, and clear narrative.
  • Proficiency in data visualization and storytelling, including designing visualizations that communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to obtain a Department of Defense Secret clearance.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with technical and programmatic teams to understand their questions and problems and translate them into clear data and analytical requirements.
  • Architect and develop modular, scalable data processing and analytics tools, following established coding and version-control practices.
  • Assist in designing and implementing end-to-end data solutions, from data ingestion and parsing through relational data models, analytics, and reporting.
  • Assist in designing and implementing intuitive user interfaces that enable users to enter, review, and interact with data accurately and efficiently.
  • Perform exploratory data analysis and applied analytics to identify trends, outliers, and anomalies in engineering and business data, and synthesize findings into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing and implementing ETL data pipelines that move data from raw sources into structured datasets for analytics and reporting.
  • Experience with web development, especially the Django framework.
  • Experience with modern business intelligence tools, especially Tableau.
  • Experience working with existing continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and multiple environments (development, staging, and production), including using virtual environments for local development.
  • Active Department of Defense Secret or Top Secret clearance.
  • Active/current Special Access Program clearance.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

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