Staff Agile Product Owner

Northrop Grumman; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 169,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an Agile Product Owner for the Payload & Ground Software Engineering organization. The role leads technical vision, prioritizes epics and manages the team’s backlog to align with customer needs and program increments. Requires SCI clearance and extensive Agile experience.

The position is on-site in Morrisville, NC or Fairfax, VA with no remote option, offering a competitive package and benefits tied to DoD programs.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of application.
• 12+ years of relevant software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree (Level 5) or 10+ years with Master’s or 8+ with PhD.
• 3+ years’ experience in a software Agile delivery framework.
• 2+ years of product roadmap development experience.
• Experience converting requirements into Epics, Features and User Stories.
• Experience presenting software demos to users and leadership.
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence; strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Represent Product Management and voice of customers on the Agile development team.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to define work for the team within a program increment.
• Prioritize areas of work and ensure team understands acceptance criteria and backlog priorities.
• Lead a product development team and drive the technical roadmap for Space Systems.

Skills

Agile delivery

Jira

Confluence

Product lifecycle

Epics & user stories

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitLab CI/Jenkins

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Cloud services (AWS)

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

At Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is seeking an Agile Product Owner to join our team in the Payload & Ground Software Engineering organization supporting the a Ground program. This position will serve as an inward facing technical planning/execution Lead who will be responsible for setting a strategic vision for the technical execution of the software team and serve as authority over the team’s technical roadmap and closure of epics.

This Agile Product Owner will represent Product Management and the voice of customers on the Agile development team. They will collaborate with Product Managers to define the work so that the integrated team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period. They prioritize key areas of work during a program increment, ensure that the software development team understands the intent and requirements of feature and user story definitions, and that the team is aligned on all acceptance criteria. They will represent customer interests and will continuously dictate team backlog priorities. This Agile PO must have a strong understanding of Agile PO role and technical experience developing and fielding command and control systems (TT&C, Flight Dynamics, etc) for Space Systems.

This position will be at our site either in Morrisville, North Carolina or Fairfax, Virginia. This position requires being on-site and does not support remote or hybrid work.

This position is contingent upon the verification and transfer of current/active DoD security clearance and program access as required for business needs. This position is also for an anticipated award and is thus contingent on funding of that award.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application [US Citizenship required]
• Level 5 (Staff) – 12 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's
• Level 5 (Staff) – 10 Years of relevant experience with a completed Master’s
• Level 5 (Staff) – 8 Years of relevant experience with a completed PhD
• Level 5 (Staff) – 14 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed associate’s degree
• Level 5 (Staff) – 16 years of relevant work software engineering experience in lieu of a completed degree (High School diploma or equivalent is required)
• 3+ years’ experience working in a software Agile delivery framework
• 3+ years of experience with product lifecycles for new and existing products (replacement for must have product development experience)
• 2+ years of product roadmap development experience
• Experience converting technical and business requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories
• Experience presenting and conducting demos of software product to users/leadership/stakeholders
• Demonstrated communication skills and visionary on business, user experience, and technical sides of product development
• Experience with Atlassian tool suite (Jira and Confluence)
• Experience leading a product development team

Preferred Qualifications

• Product owner certification or any other major Agile certification
• Experience with both COTS solution and custom application development
• Experience as a Scrum Master
• Experience leading or supporting distributed teams
• Has experience as a software developer to better interact and direct the team
• Knowledge of container security best practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes (Helm charts, service discovery, autoscaling, etc.)
• Knowledgeable with Python
• Technical experience developing and fielding command and control systems (TT&C, Flight Dynamics, etc) for Space Systems

Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 - $253,600.00

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.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.