Manager Digital Technologies Leadership Engineering Synergy

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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 Mission Systems (NGMS) Sector is seeking a leader to fill a Manager Level 2 position to enable a team of very qualified, high performing, diverse individuals to perform at their best. The position will lead the Digital Technology Leadership organization, comprised of senior architects and design engineers who are responsible for creating complex FPGA, ASIC, SoC, and digital subsystem designs for applications from undersea to outer space. The individual will be responsible for staff located in Baltimore, MD, Morrisville, NC and Bethpage, NY.

This role is in the Engineering Synergy group within the Airborne Multifunction Sensors (AMS) division, Engineering & Sciences (E&S) organization. The charter of Synergy is to engineer solutions more efficiently by being a thought leader in the architecture, tools, processes, mindset, and collaboration approaches adopted by E&S Digital Technology engineers during execution of their programs.

The role will focus on product development and the application of products to a wide variety of system and mission types across NGMS divisions and business units (BUs) within those divisions. This will include involvement and interaction not only with engineers within the direct chain of command, but also working across organizational BUs to foster sharing amongst many programs, IRAD initiatives, and new business capture opportunities in different chains of command to effectively use and contribute to shared digital solutions. To accomplish this, the candidate will work closely with the directors and managers of other engineering disciplines, program directors, and program managers. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently to champion change within the organization and to empower the engineers that report to them to use their strengths to do the same.

This will be a multi-role position where the selected candidate will provide both engineering functional leadership and technical project execution leadership as an IPT Lead/CAM for a large program in a BU. As an IPT Lead, the selected candidate will provide Integrated Product Team leadership and perform program execution leveraging EVMS and Agile project methodologies.

The primary goal of this position is to increase efficiency in our Digital Technology solution development, and broadly apply these changes across the organization, to ensure enduring outcomes for years to come.

Roles and responsibilities:

• People leadership: performance management; career development; staffing; workload forecast; recruiting and hiring; merit planning; employee inclusion and engagement; employee training; and development of a bench of digital architects across the organization (through knowledge sharing, training, rotations, etc.).

• Project leadership: project performance and technical oversight for design activities performed by the group; provide proposal inputs and review proposal content for both internal and external customers; project leadership for internally funded projects; project awareness (necessary content and major milestones) for major programs and captures across the sector.

• Process leadership: provide ownership of and forward direction to E&S design processes; create and support department initiatives; advocate for cross-campus/sector/division collaboration; support and promote adherence to standard design processes by all projects; foster and enforce accountability of process compliance by projects; collaborate with leaders of other engineering disciplines to share, promote, and advance relevant processes.

• Thought leadership: determine more efficient methodologies for design; collaborate with other managers and chief engineers in the organization to implement sector objectives; be a first point of contact to coordinate and promote use of products across projects and enable project stakeholder investment into shared products; understand product capabilities and roadmaps and communicate them to stakeholders; empower both self and employees to be leaders and champions of organizational change.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

• To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• Bachelor's degree with 9 years of experience, a Master's degree with 7 years of experience or a PhD with 4 years of experience in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics or related technical fields.

• U.S Citizenship is required.

• An active DoD Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain/maintain Special Program Access (SAP).

• Minimum 9 years of experience in a digital technology design (FPGA, ASIC, SoC, verification, and/or subsystem) or digital technology management environment.

• Must have experience in management of employees or management of a project.

• Demonstrated proficiency in mentoring and the ability to build highly engaged teams.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present knowledge to a wide variety of audiences of different backgrounds effectively.

• Knowledge of current digital technology, technologies and tools, and experience in all aspects of the engineering process, from requirements analysis through verification & testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:

• Advanced degree in in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics or related technical fields.

• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance or higher.

• Experience leading teams in a multi-disciplined engineering environment.

• Position prefers a candidate with a current Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SSBI clearance.

• Direct experience managing FPGA, ASIC, SoC, or digital subsystem design projects.

• Demonstrated leadership in identifying, initiating, and being a champion in an organization for positive change that challenges and overcomes traditional ways of doing business. Effective at working with a team to solicit, analyze, and overcome adoption difficulties.

• Demonstrated ability to be accountable to others while completing several simultaneous tasks, or tasks of large scale or complexity.

• Understanding of modern DevSecOps processes.

This position is contingent upon the successful transfer of an active DoD Secret Clearance and the ability to obtain or maintain Special Program Access (SAP).

Salary Range: $145,000.00 - $217,400.00

The 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.

Employees may be eligible for 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.