Sr Principal Data Scientist

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and contribute to a team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and developing our employees to grow their careers. We are defining possible every day by bringing out the best in ourselves.

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The Defense Systems Sector Strategic Deterrence Systems Division is seeking a Senior Principal Data Scientist, located in Roy, UT. This role provides technical and delivery leadership for a business domain, building trusted data pipelines and data products that support program outcomes and downstream analytics. Relocation Assistance may be available.

Own delivery and sustainment of data pipelines and data products for a specific business domain acting as the primary technical and delivery lead for the domain. Align domain work with program goals, cross-domain integration patterns, and platform standards.

• Own the domain data pipeline and data product roadmap and lead the domain data engineering team in executing it, ensuring it aligns with program objectives, control account plans, and cross-domain data architecture.
• Prioritize and sequence the domain backlog (build and sustain) in collaboration with domain stakeholders, team leadership, and program leadership.
• Lead domain-level solution design for pipelines and data products, ensuring designs leverage shared capabilities (frameworks, orchestration, observability, data quality) and conform to cross-domain data models.
• Ensure domain pipelines meet non-functional requirements (reliability, performance, security, observability) and governance standards across the environments they run in (e.g., unclassified, CUI, and higher-side networks), including appropriate instrumentation, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Represent domain needs, constraints, and risks in cross-domain and platform planning discussions, influencing sequencing, scope, and technical risk mitigation.
• Provide coaching and technical guidance to domain data engineers, domain observability, and pipeline ops roles, raising technical quality and consistency across the domain team.
• Work closely with domain stakeholders and downstream analytics/data science teams to understand business needs, manage expectations, and communicate roadmap, status, and risks.
• Collaborate with system-of-record owners to align domain pipelines with evolving business processes and data structures.
• Coordinate with the engineering lead and execution lead on architecture decisions, sequencing of cross-domain work, and management of technical risks affecting the domain.

• T04:
  Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 6+ years; or a PhD with 4+ years.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.
• 3+ years leading technical design and delivery as a technical lead, domain lead, or equivalent technical owner for production data pipelines, data products, integration capabilities, or a sustained delivery workstream.
• 3+ years integrating data from multiple…