Manager Software Engineering

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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Manager Software Engineering
2. This position is located in Clearfield, UT, for ICMB Sustainment, supporting the ICBM Operational Software Sustainment Program (IOSSP).

The candidate will have the following functional responsibilities 20%:

• Assessing staffing needs, current as well as projected and working with the respective team leads to address those needs.
• Supporting recruitment activities including the creation of requisitions, conducting interviews, and approving offers.
• Establishing personal program and functional goals as well as performing quarterly connections and merit adjustments for subordinates.
• Provide their subordinates with career development recommendations, mentoring, discipline, as necessary.
• Generate training plans based on the program and their subordinates' needs.
• Provide regular flow down of company and organizational status and appropriately represent and be a spokesperson for the Software Engineering organization to their group, assigned project, and the company.

The candidate will have the following technical responsibilities 80%:

• Design and implement Python-based test automation, including use of tools such as JAZZ, to verify requirements.
• Design, develop, and implement test methods, procedures, and equipment.
• Apply sound Systems Engineering methods and best practices.
• Navigate and utilize requirements management tools such as DOORS.
• Utilize Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with an understanding of DoDAF and SysML.
• Define test parameters and specify tests to be performed.
• Compile and analyze test data to identify required changes to test equipment, procedures, or requirements.
• Plan, execute, and report on test activities, including integration support.
• Conduct element integration, regression, and verification/validation testing, including checkout in system test labs.
• Demonstrate technical experience with networks, computer hardware and software, and interconnection/interfacing technologies.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, software engineers, and lab users to ensure test requirements are met.
• Develop and release engineering documentation, including:
• Data analysis against requirements and interfaces for each software build or hardware component.
• Coordination with software developers and systems engineers in support of verification.
• Detailed test reports to support formal system verification.
• Develop and execute short- and long-term integration plans for multiple concurrent baselines.
• Integrate subsystem functionality into system capabilities per design, with emphasis on system stability and performance.
• Participate in technical interchange meetings, interface with internal and external customers, and contribute to a broad range of program deliverables.

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