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Principal Engineer Systems/Sr. Principal Engineer Systems
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Oklahoma-Tinker AFB
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About the role
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 seeking a Principal Systems Engineer/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Oklahoma City, OK This position can be filled at a level 3 or a level 4. This Principal Systems Engineer 3/4 position is for an individual contributor within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Responsibilities include conducting research, writing requirements, developing models, defining interfaces and performing analysis while working within an Integrated Product Team (IPT) structure to drive the development of new program requirements, refine existing program requirements, and influence the pursuit of future technologies and capabilities. The selected candidate will collaborate across the engineering disciplines and technology areas to integrate and communicate technical capabilities and analyses with internal stakeholders and external customers across multiple simultaneous Modernization and Sustainment efforts. Job Responsibilities: • In this role, you will be responsible for Scrum Master duties, such as facilitating stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and improving Agile practices within the development lifecycle. • Perform requirements development, allocation, verification/validation planning and manage interface definition efforts. • Write complex specifications, interface control documents, and engineering reports. • Support interface/communication with program, functional and subsystem leads. • Maintain Systems Engineering artifacts following proper configuration management procedures. • Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure proper verification and validation of Systems Engineering artifacts • Possess strong interpersonal and leadership skills with excellent communications skills to support coordination across IPTs and with external customers. • Solicit input from various stakeholders and team members to synthesize data and communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Support cross-IPT development of system level requirements and use cases • Work with Release Train Engineers to develop and execute scrum team plans and metrics • Manage project execution rhythm, coordination, and reporting activities • Utilize JIRA software tool (and/or similar) for issue tracking and resolution We offer a 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do. Basic Qualifications: • Principal Systems Engineer 3 - Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline AND 5 years of related professional/military experi