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Staff Software Sustainment Lead
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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. 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. We are looking for team members who want to solve interesting, complex problems, which protect our nation. Your talents and passion are most important to us. Become a part of our enthusiastic team where we have fun working together and take pride in our contributions to the nation’s safety. We are recruiting for a senior engineers with a background in Software Development, Systems Engineering, Team Leadership, and Program Management. In this role, the focus will be on development and sustainment of satellite ground software. This positions is located onsite on our Colorado Springs, CO campus with part time on-site at our local customer site, and requires a Top Secret / SCI clearance at the time of application. What you’ll get to do: • Lead Software Sustainment Team – Lead a small (10-15 FTE) team of software developers on fixing top priority software defects. This includes regularly organizing the work, buying off on schedule for completion, providing status to program leadership, and ensuring the team makes and communicates timely fixes. • Chair the Government Defect Review Board (GDRB) – Weekly meeting with govt and operator stakeholders to status open defects, report status, and field prioritization requests to communicate back to the Sustainment team and broader Software Development team(s). • Own the bug‑fix flow – Triage defects, facilitate priority setting, and improve cycle‑time and predictability. • Use data to drive decisions – Track team efficiency, defect metrics, and act on the insights. • Be a technical bridge – Connect development teams with program leadership and customers • Cost Account Manager – be the CAM for the Sustainment team, ensuring all program execution takes place according to EVMS cost and schedule targets Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree (ideally Computer Science or Systems Engineering) and 12 years of experience; OR a master’s degree and 10 years: OR a PhD and 8 years. Experience can be considered in lieu of degree (4 years of additional experience