RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

About our local organization:  You’ll be joining our Aurora Software and Controls Department which has 200+ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects. This engineering organization supports numerous programs within the Payload and Ground Systems organization. We have plenty of opportunity for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. We are part of a larger local engineering organization that includes Systems Engineering and Hardware Engineering staff. This overall local engineering organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

About the program: As a Software Engineer, you’ll be joining an existing on-contract classified portfolio called Swordfish and one of its program’s we call “Starfleet” that is supporting a critical national security mission that is both in Operations and major development. The program team is based in Aurora, CO yet has a distributed team located at several other Northrop Grumman sites across the US as well as at distributed collaborating partner company sites. Some of the program’s baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some work outside a secure facility. Once you are fully program cleared, all developers must support integration, test, and deployment in the secure environment part of the time which ensures you see and understand the full software lifecycle and full program mission. The team located in Aurora is roughly 25 staff primarily composed of software developers organized into small agile scrum teams that primarily work in two large rooms with cubicle like individual spaces (rather than in dedicated offices). The program’s culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technology, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product.

The program has three sub-types or roles of software engineer needs. These types are: 1) Data focused Software Engineer, 2) Front-end focused Software Engineer, and 3) Full-Stack Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) DEVOPS integration, test, deployment focused Software Engineer. A given candidate may be best for one of these roles, more than one, and could change/shift over time if of interest and pending program needs. This requisition is focused on the Data-focused Software Engineer role.

The Data focused Software Engineer role and responsibilities include providing technical leadership and implementing best practices for data engineering, ensuring the data infrastructure meets the needs of the business. The individual will work closely with data analysts and other engineers to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of data solutions. Create and maintain scalable, reliable, consistent and repeatable systems that support data operations for Reporting, Analytics, Applications, and Data Science. Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.). Use ETL processes in order to maintain, improve, clean, and manipulate data. Profile data to measure quality, integrity, accuracy, and completeness. Increase speed to delivery by implementing workload/workflow automation solutions. Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes. Builds required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources.

Software engineers at our Principal (T03) and Senior Principal (T04) levels are expected to quickly gain mission and system domain knowledge coupling that with prior experience to mentor and influence others as well as contribute to advancing the program forward. The program appreciates engineers that identify and propose improvement ideas in technology, process, architecture, or tooling and are fast-learners on existing code bases. If you thrive in this kind of environment, then please apply so we can consider you.

Basic Qualifications:

• Level 3: Bachelor’s degree in Science with 5+ years of software development experience; 3+ years with a Master’s; or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Level 4: Bachelor’s degree in Science with 8+ years of software development experience; 6+ years with a Master’s; or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS clearance required at time of application, ability to obtain SCI prior to or after starting role.
• Ability to pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly) (not required to start)
• Experience with Agile principles, processes, and tools
• Experience developing applications in Java
• Experience developing applications on Linux/Unix operating system

Preferred Qualifications:

It is preferred that a given candidate have some combination of the following attributes that are common to all 3 roles:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar
• Current and active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
• Prior completed Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
• Prior engineering or development experience with the Space Industry
• Ability to effectively communicate and present to program management and customers
• Ability to effectively write technical documentation
• Experience sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a collaborative environment
• At least 3 years (T03), 6 years (T04) of experience developing object-oriented applications in Java
• At least 3 years (T03), 6 years (T04) of experience developing applications on Linux/Unix operating systems including proficiency with OS commands and shell scripting Strong analytical, problem-solving, testing, and troubleshooting skills
• Active Security+ (or similar) certification
• Ability to travel (limited, up to 10%)

• For Data focused role, it is preferred that a candidate have some combination of the following:
  • Experience in data migration and data modeling, including working with legacy systems
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services
  • Hands-on working experience with RDBMS, SQL, scripting, and coding
  • Familiarity with JavaScript API, Rest API or Data Extract APIs
  • Experience with Gitlab, DevSecOps utilizing test-driven development, and Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose)
  • Experience developing data pipelines and normalizing data 

Salary Range: $110,300.00 - $165,500.00Salary Range 2: $137,400.00 - $206,000.00The 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.Employees may be eligible for 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.