Principal Engineer Data-

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

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.

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 start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible.

With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 3+ years; or a PhD with 1+ years. In lieu of formal degree, 4 additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 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.
• Strong hands‑on experience building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing
• Experience building and maintaining reusable data engineering components or common implementation patterns, such as ingestion modules, transformation utilities, shared configuration, or logging patterns
• Familiarity with integrating data from enterprise systems of record into analytical or operational data pipelines
• Solid software engineering skills, including version control (Git), code reviews, automated testing, and documentation
• Strong understanding of databases, pipeline orchestration, and pipeline scripting languages
• Experience implementing logging, metrics, and error handling in data pipelines to support observability and troubleshooting
• Ability to collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust pipelines or reusable components
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams

• An active U.S. Government Secret level security clearance (at a minimum), to include a closed investigation date completed within the last 6 years.
• Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related STEM discipline with 5+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 3+ years; or a PhD with 1+ years
• Experience contributing to shared data engineering frameworks or building domain‑specific pipelines and data products using common platform patterns
• Experience building data pipelines on modern data platforms such as Apache Spark/Delta Lake, Databricks,…