Senior Product Line Engineering Architect

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

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.

• Build relationships with senior technical and business leaders at the division level across Missions Systems to provide guidance on their role in the PLA adoption process and ensure successful transition to PLE for their teams.
• Adapt Systems and Product or Software Architecture Experience to Increase Product Line efficiency and adoption from Development and Production through the Sustainment.
• Be persistent in organizational change to Increase Product Line Adoption across Mission Systems.
• Use existing knowledge of software architecture and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) tools to help define and shape the PL adoption strategy for PL teams and at the division level across the NGMS sector.
• Provide coaching on PL principles, practices, and the adoption process and work with the product line team and division leadership to identify where the process needs to be tailored to meet individual organization requirements.
• Create new coaching materials including tools, templates, techniques, and processes.
• Help teams create and modify their product lines using MBSE tools like Cameo, IBM Rhapsody Architect and Pure::
  
  Variants to track product line variation.
• Schedule and conduct PLE focused education and awareness sessions, surveys, technology demonstrations, and other training events.
• Ensure our product line engineering strategy is aligned with NG digital transformation strategy.
• Use Confluence to document status and new processes.

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) and a minimum of 14 years of related experience; or Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related experience; or PhD in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related experience.
• Experience leading technical teams, demonstrating technical leadership skills, decisiveness, and ability to make sound technical judgments with limited information.
• Experience with the technical development and direction for all aspects of engineering on a program, including design, development, implementation, testing, and delivery of product to a customer.
• Systems Engineering experience including requirements management, systems architecture development, and model-based engineering/systems engineering (MBE/MBSE) using tools such as, IBM Rhapsody and Cameo.
• Exposure to traceability across the systems engineering lifecycle, engineering processes and governance, family of systems/products, model-based architectures, and strategic reuse or variant management.
• U.S. Citizenship and current/active U.S. Government Secret Clearance required. Must have the ability to obtain/maintain U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance and Special Program Access (SAP).

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance or higher.
• Experience working with…