Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) seeks a Manager Software Engineering 3 position as the Decision Support & Analytics (DS&A) Portfolio Manager in our Roy, UT Innovation Center location.
Technical leadership is a must! The candidate will report to the Director, Data Solutions & Platforms (DSP) and will execute a large, diverse portfolio of data engineering, data science, cyber engineering, and artificial intelligence products that increase speed and accuracy in decision making.
What You Will Get To Do:
- Oversight of system design, requirements management, verification, deployment, and sustainment of decision support systems and AI; data processing and storage; and specialized interface development and implementation supporting executive-level customers.
- Day to Day program management of the DSS portfolio.
- Customer relationship management to ensure products meet program needs at the correct time.
The DS&A Portfolio Lead will:
- Ensure DS&A products deliver and present data to system/tool end users in a useful manner that accelerate and improve accuracy in decision making.
- Oversee a team of engineers developing and sustaining multiple products designed to accelerate performance of the program.
- Guide the team in adherence to program systems engineering and development plans.
- Execute to product development plans tracking performance metrics such as earned value, Agile execution, risk and opportunity, and product team performance.
- Mentor junior engineers and project managers.
- Collaborate internally with other portfolio managers and externally with peer managers across the program.
- Drive excellence in engineering product design, delivery, and sustainment.
- Assist teams with functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
The successful candidate will:
- Be responsible for monitoring and correcting portfolio programmatic activities
- Serve as the primary focal point for Decision Support Systems and AI-driven tools.
- Review, understand, and explain product execution metrics with DSP Leadership
- Provide advice on staffing, skill set management, and operations
- Interact directly with all team members, facilitate collaboration, and drive excellence in engineering and delivery
- Ensure products align with DSP Strategic Objectives and advise the Director, DSP on changes to strategy.
- Develop and administer budgets and performance standards for the DS&A Portfolio
- Refine operating procedures for DS&A product development and sustainment in line with DSP strategy.
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts
This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree with 8 years related software or systems experience or MS with 6 years of related experience or and additional 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
- Experience in program management: planning, risk management, and project performance addressing cost, schedule, and technical quality for related Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements on a large system development-type contract
- Understanding of technical baseline development and management.
- Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain a U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance.
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- 5+ years leading and managing cross-disciplinary technical teams
- Experienced in engineering leadership process and tailoring.
- High proficiency in technical problem-solving, including root cause analysis and solution development.
- MS in STEM with related system development programs.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating complex data processing, intelligence or space ground systems, or large scale AI products.
- Experience in software architecture, software systems engineering, AI, data science or engineering, security systems engineering, or systems integration.
- Experience eliciting needs from customers and translating those needs into development requirements.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related software or systems experience, or a master’s degree with 6 years of related experience, or an additional 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- Program management experience involving planning, risk management, and cost, schedule, and technical quality performance for large system development contracts
- Understanding of technical baseline development and management
- Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at application, current and within scope
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance
- Five or more years leading and managing cross-disciplinary technical teams
- Experience in engineering leadership processes and tailoring
- High proficiency in technical problem-solving, root cause analysis, and solution development
- Master’s degree in STEM with related system development program experience
- Experience building, deploying, and operating complex data processing, intelligence, space ground systems, or large-scale AI products
- Experience in software architecture, software systems engineering, AI, data science or engineering, security systems engineering, or systems integration
- Experience eliciting customer needs and translating them into development requirements
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