Software Engineering Manager

Manager, Software Engineering 2

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 Aeronautics Systems in California is currently seeking a Manager, Software Engineering 2 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Software organization. This role can be located in Palmdale, California.

This candidate will be the product owner of a product team working closely with Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leadership and software architects. This is a vital position to a classified program in support of software design and development. Candidate will be responsible for leading a product team through software architecture, requirements, design and development phases. Candidate will provide leadership to the software team (8-12 engineers) by flowing down system level architecture/requirements and setting the technical direction for the team to execute.

Candidate will be responsible for the effective execution of an Agile-focused software lifecycle process at the product level, to include managing a product Configuration Control Board (CCB), and tracking and reporting all relevant metrics to the IPT.

Candidate will be responsible for both cross-product coordination within the various IPTs coordination within the program, allocating developer resources where necessary.

The program is a multi-site, multi-sector effort. The Candidate shall be willing to travel to other sites to support technical meetings, integration efforts, and other related tasking. The Candidate shall also be willing to adjust work schedule as required to meet needs of east coast coordination.

The candidate will also be responsible for functional duties including conducting performance assessments, staffing, employee development, communication meetings, disciplinary actions, compensation adjustments, training & educational oversight/ approval and other routine personnel issues. This position will be responsible for establishing common processes and practices in cooperation with colleague managers across the sector.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for managing staffing and reporting status and metrics to IPT and Functional leadership
• Provide functional management to direct reports, including career guidance, staffing, interviewing/onboarding, disciplinary actions, and direct engagement
• Manage all product activities for a team of developers, employing an Agile-focused process
• Manage workflow requests from other product leads within the Software IPT, as well as product leads from other IPTs
• Coordinate the activities of the product-level CCB and ensure its efficient functioning
• Coordinate all product-level software verification and release activities within the larger program schedules
• Primary product representative for product integration in on-site labs and at off-site integration facilities
• Primary product representative at all cross-product and cross-IPT meetings
• Primary product representative at technical reviews to senior management and Customer stakeholders

Contingency:
Requires minimum active U.S. Government Secret (or higher) level clearance and active program access (PAR) before start.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must either have a Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field AND 9 years of related professional/military experience that includes a background in software development, OR a Master's degree Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field AND 7 years of related professional/military experience OR a PhD Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field and 4 years of experience that includes a background in software development
• Demonstrated professional experience with an Agile Framework within the last 3 years
• Demonstrated professional experience implementing software and scripts in one or more Object Oriented Programming languages: C++, scripts in C, AND/OR Python
• Demonstrated professional experience with software change control, change management, and CI/CD tools such as not limited to:
  Git Hub, Git Lab, Jenkins, and/or Atlassian tool suite
• Active in-Scope, U.S. Government Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret clearance.
• Start date is contingent upon the ability to obtain special program…