Software Engineering Manager - SIE Lead

Position: Software Engineering Manager 2 - SIE Lead
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

## Description

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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is currently seeking a Software Engineering Manager 2 - SIE (Systems Integration Engineer) Lead role. This position will be located on site in San Diego, CA.

The successful candidate will lead a team of approximately 10-20 individuals to complete the full software development and test life cycle in an Agile software development environment.

The successful candidate will collaborate with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Test Automation, Dev Sec Ops  and Systems Test organizations, to ensure the team is meeting the mission engineering objectives of the contract. The successful candidate will implement and utilize several Agile development techniques and metrics to manage the team's progress and the work quality throughout the product life cycle. This position is a dual-hatted Technical and Functional Lead position that reports to the Enterprise SW IPT Lead on the program side and the Software Department Manager on the functional side.

Basic Qualifications:

* Must have a Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field AND 9 years of related professional experience that includes a background in software development, OR a Master's degree AND 7 years of related professional experience that includes a background in software development.

* Prior leadership experience using agile development, including participating as Product Owner, SCRUM Master, and/or team member in an Agile development environment.

* Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

* Experience with integrating software used for one of the following real-time applications: flight critical software, Safety critical software, medical software, or mission critical software

* Experience with Agile software development, object-oriented architecture and programming, software integration and testing.

* At least 4 years of recent relevant experience with at least two of the following programming or scripting languages:
Java, C, C++, and Python.

* Experience with one of the following real time operating systems:
Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, or Realtime Linux

* Familiarity with most of the data interfaces: 1553, RS-232 Serial, Discrete & Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fiber Channel

* Active U.S. government Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

* An advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other STEM disciplines.

* Advanced technical management degree.

* Prior experience in engineering functional management is a plus.

* Proven leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills.

* Previous experience leading a team of 5-12 employees with a record of on-time performance

* Previous experience in developing proposal inputs (task descriptions and basis of estimate)

* Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.

* Prior experience with cost account management and task/resource planning.

* Understands assembly emitted by C/C++ compilers for typical code constructs

* Has developed code in assembly to support low level drivers, BSPs, or critical performance implementations

* Strong understanding of embedded software…