Systems Engineer - Level 3; Agile Release Train Engineer; AHT

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

As a Systems Engineer – Level 3 (Release Train Engineer (RTE)/Agile Leader) you will be developing and sustaining systems using current technologies and others yet to come. The Advanced Programs (AP) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in mathematics. Our team is chartered with providing innovative technologies to develop, design, and produce optimized product lines across multiple customers while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

The position is located on-site in Boulder, CO. Boulder is nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and only 25 miles from downtown Denver.

• Implement and manage Agile practices for an AP program
• Plan, coordinate, lead program increments for an AP program
• Manage workflows
  1) within teams,
  2) between teams, and
  3) across work centers using Jira Scrum and Kanban boards
• Keep Jira compliant to customer’s requirements of mapping SOW tasks to Jira Epics and stories at each PI boundary and maintain that rhythm within each PI to enable technical progress visibility to customer
• Increase throughput by identifying constraints, mitigate dependencies causing bottlenecks, and reducing wait time
• Identify opportunities to standardize recurring processes
• Schedule and lead formal program increment (PI) planning and backlog review events. Gov. Customer and Internal events.
• Experience with managing and pruning backlog – Collab with Tech leaders
• Facilitate project leads with time phasing milestones and develop/map epics, features, stories to milestones
• Creates Confluence and Jira templates for project leads
• Coordinate multiple agile teams to ensure alignment with agile practices
• Drive continuous improvement by enhancing processes, removing impediments, and optimizing value delivery
• Act as a key liaison between teams and stakeholders to help navigate organizational challenges
• Foster a culture of respect and psychological safety to enable collaboration among individuals on the train
• Experience with Lean and Scaled Agile Framework approaches
• Understand project budget and how budgeting works within an agile environment
• Experience with transitioning mature teams from Waterfall to Agile
• Creating metrics beneficial to managing project progress and identifying efficiencies and inefficiencies
• Drives the engineering process development, continuous improvement, and affordability initiatives within their program.
• Communicate regularly with program management, customers, and engineering management.
• Generate applicable documentation.
• Provides problem resolution and improvement recommendations with strong time management skills.

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments,…