Northrop Grumman · 14 hours ago
Sr Staff Engineer Software-16417 - R10222375-2
Colorado Springs, CO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$166K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading defense contractor seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to support the Sentinel program. This role involves translating system requirements into software requirements, driving software execution, and mentoring team members.
AerospaceBig DataManufacturingData IntegrationRemote SensingSecurity
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Translating allocated capability needs captured through use case definitions, allocated system requirements, and functions into an integrated set of software requirements and functions across multiple software items
Coordinating with Digital Thread product management and other technical leadership on execution approach, progress, risks, and opportunities
Driving software technical execution to ensure software development activities (including software architecture definition, design, code development, and testing) through deployment will meet mission needs
Understanding stakeholder needs and perspectives to ensure that the digital thread implementation satisfies those needs
Ensuring teams are designing and implementing software with compliance to system software development plan
Mentoring team members and guiding program leadership in alignment with near and long term strategic plans
Qualification
Required
14 Years with Bachelor degree; 12 Years with Masters; 10 Years with PhD or an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Experience developing, decomposing, and verifying software requirements
Experience developing and realizing software architectures using UML
Experience overseeing software development efforts
Experience supporting major program events across multiple phases of the DoD acquisition lifecycle
Demonstrated performance driving execution of complex projects with proven collaboration and coordination skills across internal and external stakeholder organizations
Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years
US Citizenship with ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP)
Preferred
Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering methods and tools
Experience with software deployment utilizing DevOps principles & tools (e.g., Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment pipelines)
Experience developing web applications to be deployed across multiple airgapped environments / sets of infrastructure
Experience developing / deploying containerized software
Experience developing / deploying software into classified environments
Familiarity with API development and integration
Strong understanding and broad application of complex engineering specialties (systems engineering standards, configuration management, CI/CD, digital transformation, data science, and data engineering etc.)
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
Leadership Team
Tom Wilson
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Business Development
Jeffrey Worsham
Chief Product Owner - Advanced Technology Development
Recent News
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