Sr Principal Lead Software Engineer (full-stack

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top 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.

Come join Northrop Grumman
–Xetron, part of the Mission Systems sector, where we develop new capabilities for our military and intelligence customers around the globe. At Xetron we design systems that only science fiction writers could imagine, because they’re that cool!

Xetron is an operating unit of the Northrop Grumman Corporation
, located in Cincinnati, Ohio
, where employees have the chance to know everyone on site while working on cutting‑edge technologies and high‑impact products. You’ll tackle the next generation of challenging problems, share expertise, and learn from world‑class teammates. Remember when you were excited about the challenge of the problem, the importance of the solution, and the fun you had with your team? You’ll experience that at Xetron!

See why we receive comments on our You Tube Videos like "This company is insanely advanced" and "Wow. This is mind blowing."

The Neptune Phoenix program provides sustainment for our existing system portfolio while driving development, production, and operational support for the next generation of technical collection capabilities. The team designs and integrates ground‑and platform‑based collection systems built on model‑based systems engineering (MBSE), open architectures, and open standards

This position is for a Lead Cyber Software Engineer position on Neptune Phoenix to lead a team of software engineers implementing cloud‑based, full‑stack software applications that incorporate advanced algorithms, decision support processing, and data fusion. The Lead Software Engineer serves as the authority for software architecture and design, and owns responsibility to create, evolve, and maintain the architecture of the software to meet operational needs across the full stack (front‑end, back‑end, data, and cloud infrastructure).

• Decision support system processing and orchestration
• Algorithm development and integration (e.g., optimization, analytics, and automated reasoning)
• Producing knowledge from disparate data sources and sensors via scalable data services and APIs
• Implementation of user‑facing components and services that expose these capabilities to operators and analytic users

• Lead a team building cloud‑based, full‑stack mission applications that directly impact national security
• Own the architecture and design of advanced decision support systems and analytic services
• Build and integrate microservices, APIs, and data pipelines that turn disparate data into actionable insight
• Work with modern tech (cloud services, containers, CI/CD) in a real‑world, operational environment

• Full‑stack Software Engineering, to include design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and operations of cloud‑based mission applications and services
• Design and implementation of cloud‑hosted microservices, APIs, and data pipelines to support decision support and analytic workflows
  
  Evaluation of commercial solutions as part of make/buy analyses, including cloud services and COTS/GOTS components
• Development of custom algorithms and analytic services for decision making and situational…