Software Engineering Center of Technical Excellence - Director 1

About this role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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’s Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Software Engineering (CoTE) Director to support Software-related efforts. This leadership opportunity reports to the Software Center of Technical Excellence Director, and will be located at one of our core sites (Melbourne, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Palmdale, CA; San Diego, CA; or El Segundo, CA). Candidates must be willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time. 

The Director will unite programs, engineers, and technical experts under a shared set of tools, processes, and practices to ensure a consistent, cohesive, and collaborative approach across all AS sector programs.

The ideal Director is an influential connector and trusted steward of their discipline — combining deep technical expertise with a passion for technical training and development, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:   • Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Software discipline, aligned to long-term sector strategy. 

• Develop the strategy, plan, execute and deploy software frameworks that assist with software development in flight critical software, mission software, full-stack software applications on ground stations, full stack software on training platforms

• Stand-up technical standards into a Everything-as-code ecosystem

• Regularly interface with EI&E discipline leads to identify program needs and close gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training. 

• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of sector-wide engineering tools, standardized processes, digital solutions, and technical training-- ensuring they are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs. 

• Oversee and allocate the discipline’s NCTA and indirect budgets to strengthen technical excellence; advance tools, processes, and workforce capabilities; and generate measurable impact on program performance and future competitiveness. 

• Represent the discipline in sector-wide and enterprise-wide technical development efforts related to technical development, technical career pathing, technical training, and critical skills investment. 

• Participate in sector-level talent reviews and succession planning to maintain discipline-wide visibility into talent strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities. 

• Provide leadership, alignment, and support to NG Fellows within the discipline to advance sector- and enterprise-wide emerging technologies and future workforce capabilities. 

• Contribute technical expertise and process leadership in major proposal reviews, program reviews, independent technical reviews, program stand-up reviews, NCTA and indirect activities, and other sector-wide improvement efforts.  

• Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root cause analysis, corrective action planning, long-term verification of improvement. 

• Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance.   

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.

Basic Qualifications:   • Must have a Bachelor’s of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline AND 9 years of related professional/military experience within the Aerospace and Defense industry that includes a background in leadership positions, OR a Master’s of Science degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of related professional/military experience within the Aerospace and Defense industry that includes a background in leadership positions 

• Minimum 6 years of Software leadership/management experience in an integrated product team environment leading agile development teams 

• Experience working across the total software program lifecycle  

• Expertise in establishing engineering standards, tools, and processes at scale.

• Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions  

• Experience with commercial Software licensing models and managing commercial software tool portfolios 

• Knowledge of modern industry practices for developing software defined systems. 

• Experience in Avionics, Vehicle, Systems Engineering, Global Supply Chain, and Test processes and tools where they overlap and/or are adjacent to Software processes and tools. (e.g. Software defined LRUs, Software Configuration Management, Software Integration and Test, Software procurement, auto-generated GNC Software.)  

• Must

Similar jobs

• Director - Software Engineering — Nationalindemnity · Omaha, NE
• Director of Software Engineering — Spire · Boulder, Colorado, United States
• Enterprise Engineering Systems Director — The Aerospace Corporation · Crystal City, VA | El Segundo, CA | Colorado Springs, CO
• Software Engineering Technical Leader — Cisco · Richardson, Texas, United States | RTP, North Carolina, United States
• Software Engineering Technical Leader — Cisco · Milpitas, California, United States
• Software Engineering Technical Leader — Cisco · RTP, North Carolina, United States
• Software Engineering Technical Leader — Cisco · Remote
• Software Engineering Technical Leader — Cisco · San Jose, California, United States