Principal Data Engineer/Sr. Principal Data Engineer

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 (NGAS) has an opening for a Principal Data Engineer or Sr. Principal Data Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The position requires on-site support located in Palmdale, CA where technology and teamwork come together. The selected candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Data Science Engineering Team working in a collaborative environment while promoting a positive and proactive teamwork environment.   Data Engineering job duties involve the following: • Establish repositories, data models, and integration patterns for manufacturing data and the technical context required to support digitized processes • Define the architecture, processes, and interfaces through which engineering and manufacturing teams provide, validate, relate, and maintain contextual data • Align adjacent and independently managed data structures through authoritative sources, shared identifiers, mappings, semantics, relationships, and traceability • Design resilient pipelines and data services that integrate manufacturing measurement, equipment, sensor, process, product-location, quality, engineering, and enterprise-system data • Set technical direction for greenfield manufacturing-data solutions and communicate strategy, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to senior leaders and technical stakeholders   Basic Qualifications for: Principal Data Engineer: • Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of technical and/or engineering experience, or a Master’s degree with 3 years of engineering experience, or PhD with 0 years of experience • Ability to work 1st shift "5am-3:30pm" or 2nd shift "4:12pm-2:42am" and/or any work schedule (times may vary) • Advanced experience using SQL, programming or automation, and relational data modeling to deliver production data products, applications, or platforms • Experience defining and owning data architecture, including repositories, schemas, interfaces, integration patterns, metadata, lineage, data quality, and maintainability • Demonstrated success delivering greenfield data solutions where platforms, standards, requirements, data contracts, or system endpoints were incomplete or did not exist • Experience designing pipelines and integration approaches for complex data from multiple independently managed sources • Experience establishing technical direction for ambiguous data problems and driving alignment across technical and operational stakeholders • Ability to communicate architecture, performance, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to senior managers and technical stakeholders • This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret or Top-Secret Clearance as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business need