Director of Engineering Strategy

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 25% 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.

The Sector Engineering organization (formerly Strategy & Engineering Excellence [S&EE]) enables continuously improving engineering execution and deploys strategy in close partnership with division-aligned engineering teams. We are a trusted partner in Engineering Discipline Execution, Technology Leadership, Engineering Strategy, Technical Talent, and Advanced Analytics. We create and deliver on initiatives that need a broad sector approach and scale outcomes achieved within a division to the sector.

We define and enable commonality in tools and processes. We merge insights across engineering and other functional areas, unify the broad engineering team, and act on near-, mid-, and long-term plans to achieve our strategy.

This critical role requires extensive collaboration across a diverse group of sectors, division, internal stakeholders and external industry partners and is responsible for identifying and driving innovation to prepare E&S for the future. The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvement to innovate and execute engineering activities.

• Drive E&S long term strategy by completing market assessments, technology roadmaps, and identification of opportunities in support of market strategy to support growth and profitability. Maintain 10-year pipeline roadmap, including emerging market opportunities and upcoming tool/system integration
• Leads collaborative partnership endeavors with stakeholders across the Sector and company to understand key drivers to business success and enhance the probability of meeting E&S longer-term goals.
• Defines, in strong collaboration with other groups, our engineering strategy including near-, mid-, and long-term actions necessary to achieve that strategy.
• Develops coordinated efforts for new and emerging markets and collaborates with strategic investment to ensure the strategic plan has appropriate funding in place to support E&S and Mission System’s goals.
• Partners and collaborates with Strategy and Mission Solutions organizations to understand technical product roadmaps, customer mission needs, and other customer feedback to define and employ strategy.
• Partner with other industries and academia to understand current & future ways of doing business, performing engineering, and skillset development to inform our strategy.

• Partner with Chief Information and Digital Office (CIDO) to execute E&S Strategy, integrations and future technologies to build out engineering ecosystem.
• Implementing Mission Product Lifecycle Management (MPLM) infrastructure to enable digital thread.
• Prioritize Digital Transformation and AI Assistance to improve productivity and cycle times and for realized results.
• Develop plans (including targeted investment) for new tools and reduction of tools in our engineering lifecycle based on commonality, market research, collaboration with cross-sector organizations, and the needs of our organization.
• Collaborate with CIDO on employment of Artificial…