Data Strategy Lead

Position: Staff Data Strategy Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
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.

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector has an opening for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Digital Strategy & Analytics team. This position is located in Melbourne, Florida.

Job Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Developing a roadmap from existing tools, processes, and efforts towards a program specific implementation of optimized engineering and programmatic processes
• Develop and implement a program-specific Data strategy that supports the Enterprise Data Strategy
• Manage Data Science practices for prescriptive, predictive, diagnostic, descriptive, and cognitive analytics through automation, storage elasticity, and on-demand self service provisioning of all data types and life cycles
• Enable storing, searching, processing, and securing of extremely large structured or unstructured data sets
• Proactively identify issues and inefficiencies within the business to develop and deploy solutions
• Drive the adoption of data analysis methodologies across program operations for improved performance analysis
• Lead the monitoring and analysis of operational data to identify trends, issues and opportunities, and provide recommendations/solutions
• Actively engage with program leaders and key stakeholders to identify and understand operational problems
• Design and manage the data infrastructure, network, and system automation
• User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) design and development
• Ability to communicate complex analytical subject matter across varied audiences

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in a related Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) discipline and 12 years of related professional experience; OR Master of Science in a related STEM discipline and 10 years of related professional experience
• Experience developing and executing data strategies that consider big data solutions such as data lakes and/or data warehouses
• Understanding of elastic data storage and archive storage lifecycle management
• Experience with data analytics tools (e.g., Python, SQL, Tableau, etc.) and techniques
• Experience with large scale distributed software and agile software development methodologies
• Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems
• Experience integrating AI/ML into business processes
• Experience developing and enforcing a governance strategy for data democratization within security parameters
• Leadership or management experience over a technical team
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science
• 5 years of hands-on software development experience
• Strong understanding of business and engineering processes, tools, and techniques
• Experience with UI/UX design and development
• Proven ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated experience developing product visions and fostering effective engineering teams
• Demonstrated technical leadership of product development teams that have successfully delivered customer-driven products
• Experience developing big data solutions related to elastic data storage and archive storage lifecycle management
• Experience collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing insights from multiple data sources across different network domains
• Experience with No
  
  SQL Databases (e.g., Mongo
  
  DB, Neo4J, etc.)
• Understanding of Northrop Grumman policy, process, and products
• Ability to make decisions with minimal support
• Experience in a program management role
• Graphic design experience
• Top Secret clearance
• CompTIA Security+ Certification or Equivalent 8570 Certification

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $The 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…