Staff Electronics Engineer – Engineering Architect Lead

Northrop Grumman; Palmdale (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Discretionary bonus

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Staff Electronics Engineer – Engineering Architect Lead to join our team in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA or Palmdale, CA. The role leads a team of data center architects, drafters, and SMT leads to develop implementation strategy and engineering documentation for upgrades and deliveries.

The ideal candidate has hands-on electronics, systems or aerospace engineering experience, excels at cross-organizational collaboration, and can obtain the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 9 years of related engineering experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams.
• Hands‑on experience in electronics engineering, systems engineering and/or aerospace engineering.
• Proven ability to effectively work across multiple organizations, geographic locations, and levels to form teams, gain internal support, act with speed, and make tough decisions.
• Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee a team of architects, engineers, drafters, and SMT leads.
• Capture project statement of work & requirements for upcoming upgrades and installations.
• Lead designs and engineering documentation for upcoming upgrades and installations.
• Resolve issues discovered during upgrades, delivering, or sustaining systems; identify risks and opportunities.
• Support strategic planning for future upgrades and deliveries.
• Oversee procurement of equipment for upgrades and deliveries.
• Provide proposal input for engineering development aspects of new contracts.
• Attend Technical Review Boards (TRB) for visibility into Change Requests (CR).
• Review TRB outputs to approve items generated by Installation and Builds.
• Ensure change requests are incorporated into upgrade planning.

Skills

Lead cross-functional teams

Electronics engineering

Systems engineering

Project management

US Top Secret clearance

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Control Account Management (CAM)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

MS Project

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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 Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Electronics Engineer – Engineering Architect Lead to join our team in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA or Palmdale, CA.

This candidate will be responsible for leading a team of data center architects, drafters, and Subcontract Management Team (SMT) leads, to develop implementation strategy and engineering documentation tracking to fielding visions for upgrading and delivering large data centers. The candidate should be a self-starter with experience in electronics engineering or equivalent technologies familiar working within an Integrated Product Team construct.

Duties And Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Manage and oversee a team of architects, engineers, drafters, and SMT leads
• Focal for capturing project statement of work & requirements for upcoming upgrades and installations
• Lead team in developing designs and engineering documentation for upcoming upgrades and installations
• Lead team in resolving critical issues discovered while upgrading, delivering, or sustaining systems, identify risk/issue/opportunity as required
• Support strategic planning for future upgrades and deliveries
• Oversee procurement of equipment for future upgrades and deliveries
• Provide proposal input for the engineering development aspects of new contracts
• Attend Technical Review Boards (TRB) for visibility into Change Requests (CR)
• Support Technical Review Boards (TRB) to include reviewing a approving that are generated by Installation and Builds
• Ensure that change requests are incorporated into upgrade planning so that they can be applied to the systems
• Establish cost/schedule baseline for the engineering development activities for upcoming upgrades and deliveries
• Review weekly name runs for accuracy, provide cost analysis, and take performance on a weekly basis for engineering development activities
• Provide monthly Estimate To Complete (ETC) updates and Estimate At Complete (EAC) adjustments that are needed

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 9 years of related engineering experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams
• Hands‑on experience in electronics engineering, systems engineering and/or aerospace engineering
• Proven ability to effectively work across multiple organizations, geographic locations, and levels to form teams, gain internal support, act with speed, and make tough decisions
• Experience and knowledge of Project/Program Management processes to include Control Account Management (CAM) Earned Value Management (EVM), Risks – Issues - Opportunities (RIO) processes, project planning and scheduling, staffing, coordination and oversight of technical work effort
• Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
• Demonstrated success in leading, collaborating, and developing cross functional teams of varying degrees of skill on complex technical projects including some or all aspects of engineering project life cycle
• Experience with Agile processes
• Experience with Cost Account Management and Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
• Experience with Configuration Control Boards (CCBs)
• Experience using MS Project
• Experience with datacenter design and/or hardware/software field installations
• Experience with Engineering Drawings
• Active DoD 8140 approved IAT Level II (or higher) compliant certification. Examples include: CCNA Security, Security+CE, CCNP, and CISSP.
• Familiarity with storage systems and basic networking
• Familiarity with Solaris 11 and Oracle OEM
• Familiarity Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Active Directory
• Familiarity VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, and high-availability virtualized infrastructures
• Familiarity with IT/documentation tools such as Sphinx, Jinja, YAML, rest
• Familiarity with cloud computing systems

Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00

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.