Principal Data Scientist - Data Pipelines (Secret)

Northrop Grumman; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead strategic data execution initiatives across the Mission Systems Sector. You will develop data architecture, build data pipelines, and deploy predictive models while coordinating with ELT and program leadership from multiple locations.

The role involves creating dashboards and analytics using Tableau, Power BI, or Excel, and collaborating with frontend visualization specialists to influence high-level decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years experience building or creating data workflows; Masters degree with at least 3 years of experience.
• Experience working with SQL to ingest, process, store, and analyze data.
• Experience with data visualization tools Tableau, Power BI, or Excel.
• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain a government Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Participate in planning, design, development and implementation of solutions addressing performance opportunities.
• Work in a fast-paced, Agile/Scrum environment focused on stakeholder outcomes.
• Collaborate with sector teams to understand analytics and data modeling requirements.
• Help architect and build data pipelines connected to multiple systems and tools.
• Develop and publish Tableau server dashboards and visualizations used across the sector.
• Support cross-team development for multiple projects including data cleanup, ingestion and linkage.
• Document design, deployment and operating procedures for each work product.
• Present data to executive management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

US Citizenship

Secret clearance

Data workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

SAP

ETL Software

SQL Server Management Studio

Oracle data warehouse

Power Apps

Power Automate

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead strategic data execution initiatives across the Mission Systems Sector. You will develop data architecture, build data pipelines, and deploy predictive models while coordinating with ELT and program leadership from multiple locations.

The role involves creating dashboards and analytics using Tableau, Power BI, or Excel, and collaborating with frontend visualization specialists to influence high-level decisions.