Principal / Sr. Principal Cyber Architect

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. The Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) Advanced Processing Solutions Business pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines the leading edge of exotic new technologies, and drives advances in the sciences. One of our most challenging new fields is Transformational Computing, which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. Our team is chartered with providing the skills to transform computing beyond Moore's Law, advancing development of computer architectures, processing/memory subsystems, and large-scale high-performance computing systems. You'll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside a broad array of scientists and engineers to make these processing solutions a reality and deliver remarkable new advantages to the warfighter. At Northrop Grumman, you'll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

Responsibilities

• Architect high speed, reliable, fault tolerant IT Solutions.
• Work with development teams and organization leadership to design and lead implementation of full-stack solutions using software that fully integrates with existing cloud infrastructures (data flow, security, and DevSecOps).
• Provide complete Operational, System and Technical Architectural views.
• Provide System interface description views with physical nodes and interconnections.
• Architect solutions for data migrations across computing environments.
• Advise organization on integration of new emerging industry technologies and environments.
• Evaluate technical risks and map out mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate emerging cloud services, applications, and hardware as part of lifecycle maintenance.
• Develop and organize cloud systems around appropriate enterprise frameworks, such as security, data, application, and business.
• Ensure performance capabilities of new systems and architectures are consistent with mission requirements.

This position may be filled at either the Principal or Sr. Principal Level.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Level:

• A Bachelor' Degree with 5years of experience; 3years with Master's Degree; 0years with PhD.
• Experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration, with recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions.
• Experience of designing, deploying, and administering Cyber based solutions.
• Experience in the Agile Framework.
• Ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI Security Clearance (requires US Citizenship).

Preferred Qualifications for Principal Level:

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
• Experience of working within complex or high security environments.
• Experience with DevSecOps service/system delivery model.
• Experience developing microservices.
• Demonstrated use of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and configuration management (Git, Bitbucket).
• Experience working in Agile software development environment.
• Product Ownership and Management studies/certifications a plus.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Level:

• A Bachelor' Degree with 9years of experience; 7years with Master's Degree; 4years with PhD.
• Experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration, with recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions.
• Experience of designing, deploying, and administering Cyber based solutions.
• Experience in the Agile Framework.
• Ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI Security Clearance (requires US Citizenship).

Preferred Qualifications for Sr. Principal Level:

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
• Experience of working within complex or high security environments.
• Experience with DevSecOps service/system delivery model.
• Experience developing microservices.
• Demonstrated use of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and configuration management (Git, Bitbucket).
• Experience working in Agile software development environment.
• Product Ownership and Management studies/certifications a plus.

Salary Range: $138,300.00 - $207,500.00Salary Range 2: $0.00 - $0.00

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to basepay. 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/orpersonal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.