Principal Engineer Data-

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 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.

The Defense Systems (DS) Sector Strategic Deterrence Systems (SDS) Division is seeking a Principal Data Engineer, located in Roy, UT.

Mission:
Build and support production-ready data pipelines and reusable data engineering components that help domain and platform teams ingest, transform, publish, and operate trusted Sentinel data. Relocation assistance may be available for this position.

• Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines and reusable data engineering components for ingestion, transformation, and publishing
• Contribute to shared connectors, templates, and configuration-driven patterns that support common systems of record and repeatable implementation approaches
• Work with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust pipelines or reusable components
• Ensure the pipelines and components you build are secure, performant, testable, and observable, with appropriate logging, metrics, and error handling
• Contribute to documentation, examples, and proof-of-concept implementations that help teams adopt common patterns and accelerate delivery
• Collaborate with Data Quality, Governance & Compliance to integrate appropriate checks and controls into pipelines and reusable components
• Support pipeline operations by helping designs integrate cleanly with orchestration, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD processes

• 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
• Familiari…