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The Defense Systems (DS) Sector Strategic Deterrence Systems (SDS) Division is seeking a Principal Data Engineer, located in Roy, UT.
Mission: Build and support production-ready data pipelines and reusable data engineering components that help domain and platform teams ingest, transform, publish, and operate trusted Sentinel data. Relocation assistance may be available for this position.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines and reusable data engineering components for ingestion, transformation, and publishing
- Contribute to shared connectors, templates, and configuration-driven patterns that support common systems of record and repeatable implementation approaches
- Work with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust pipelines or reusable components
- Ensure the pipelines and components you build are secure, performant, testable, and observable, with appropriate logging, metrics, and error handling
- Contribute to documentation, examples, and proof-of-concept implementations that help teams adopt common patterns and accelerate delivery
- Collaborate with Data Quality, Governance & Compliance to integrate appropriate checks and controls into pipelines and reusable components
- Support pipeline operations by helping designs integrate cleanly with orchestration, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD processes
Typical Minimum Education or Experience- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 3+ years; or a PhD with 1+ years. In lieu of formal degree, 4 additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.
- Strong hands-on experience building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing
- Experience building and maintaining reusable data engineering components or common implementation patterns, such as ingestion modules, transformation utilities, shared configuration, or logging patterns
- Familiarity with integrating data from enterprise systems of record into analytical or operational data pipelines
- Solid software engineering skills, including version control (Git), code reviews, automated testing, and documentation
- Strong understanding of databases, pipeline orchestration, and pipeline scripting languages
- Experience implementing logging, metrics, and error handling in data pipelines to support observability and troubleshooting
- Ability to collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust pipelines or reusable components
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:An active U.S. Government Secret level security clearance (at a minimum), to include a closed investigation date completed within the last 6 years.
- Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related STEM discipline with 5+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 3+ years; or a PhD with 1+ years
- Experience contributing to shared data engineering frameworks or building domain-specific pipelines and data products using common platform patterns
- Experience building data pipelines on modern data platforms such as Apache Spark/Delta Lake, Databricks, or Snowflake, including jobs/notebooks and integration with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tooling
- Understanding of modeling data engineering workflows as DAGs and operating them in production environments
- Familiarity with streaming data processing as well as batch workloads
- Exposure to data quality and governance practices and how they influence data pipeline design
- Experience providing examples, documentation, or internal enablement materials that help other engineers adopt common patterns and capabilities
Primary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $147,600.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, master's degree with 3+ years, PhD with 1+ years, or four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program approval within a reasonable period
- Hands-on experience building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing
- Experience building and maintaining reusable data engineering components or common implementation patterns
- Familiarity integrating enterprise systems of record into analytical or operational data pipelines
- Software engineering skills including Git, code reviews, automated testing, and documentation
- Understanding of databases, pipeline orchestration, and pipeline scripting languages
- Experience implementing logging, metrics, and error handling in data pipelines
- Ability to collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and cross-functional teamwork
- Active U.S. Government Secret clearance with a closed investigation completed within the last six years
- Degree in data engineering, computer science, software engineering, data science, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, or related STEM discipline
- Experience contributing to shared data engineering frameworks or domain-specific data pipelines and products
- Experience with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, and Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Understanding of data engineering workflows modeled as DAGs and operated in production
- Familiarity with streaming data processing and batch workloads
- Exposure to data quality and governance practices
- Experience creating examples, documentation, or enablement materials for other engineers
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