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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: YesCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescriptionAt 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 Defense Systems is seeking a Model-Based Requirements, Integration, and Architecture Systems Engineering Manager 2. This position will be in Roy, UT supporting the Sentinel Program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What You'll Get To Do:

The successful candidate will lead the System Architecture team in the Modeling Based Requirements, Integration & Architecture (MB-RIA) organization within Sentinel's Mission and Weapons Systems Engineering (MWSE) department, reporting directly to the MWSE Department Manager.

The MB-RIA System Architecture team is responsible for system architecture development ensuring full coverage of the government defined needs to decomposed functional architecture and interface definition. As the MB-RIA System Architecture Lead, the candidate will be responsible for ensuring the team tasks are completed on budget and within schedule. The candidate will be responsible for utilizing Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches in all activities. The candidate will proactively interface with other Systems Engineering (SE) organizations and Sentinel teams to ensure successful interface design and implementation.

- Define what needs to be done to ensure a consistent, accurate, fully traceable, and complete system architecture model for the Sentinel program.

- Review technical architecture content at your level of ownership and across the program

- Direct efforts and priorities of a team of 8-12 architects

- Functionally manage a team of architects/ systems engineers (including goal setting, performance reviews, and people management)

- Collect status and report program architecture status and progress to senior leadership and the government customers.

- Act as liaison with employees and supervisors at equivalent level or one level higher.

- Ensure that projects are completed on schedule following established procedures and schedules.

- Weapon System Architecture Model Product Owner for system level architecture

- CDRL and Metrics Owner for the Cameo content in the Weapon System Architecture Model

- SET Architecture board member on the Architecture Review Board, responsible for defining overarching program process and style guides for MBSE.

- Owner of the Architecture Model Management Plan driving the processes, governance, and definitions of the architecture for the Sentinel program.

- Act as a liaison and point of contact to the customer, elaborating on and showing traceability to the government defined operational architecture to include interface and functional coverage of the Air Force Global Strike Command defined missions.

- Run the Cross-IPT Sentinel Architecture Working Group and GRA Alignment Working Group to collaborate across the program and with government counterparts.

- Represent Northrop Grumman at the Architecture Model Working Group

The selected candidate will also be responsible for a Systems Engineering discipline Section within the SDS Systems Engineering organization and will report directly to an SDS Systems Engineering Department Manager. You will provide career mentorship and operational support to a Functional Home Room (FHR) team (Section) of between 8 and 12 Individual Contributors (ICs) based on Engineering goals, objectives, and company policy. Key FHR responsibilities will be personnel performance management, process familiarization and training for Section members, as well as staffing roles on projects.

As a Section Manager you will be expected to spend roughly 20% of your effort on Functional Homeroom responsibilities with 80% of your efforts focused on a technical assignment as the MB-RIA System Architecture Lead.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts

This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline with 8 years of related experience, 6 years with Masters

-Must have an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years.

- 1 year of ICBM experience (MMIII or Sentinel).

- 2 years of experience using MBSE tools (using SysML, DoDAF, or UAFP in Cameo or Rhapsody).

-Ability to obtain and maintain Sentinel special program access (PAR).

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

- Top Secret clearance.

- Experience with DOORS.

- Master's Degree in STEM.

- Experience with Cameo model integration.

- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.

- Active Sentinel special program access cleared (PAR).

- Experience in People and Technical Leadership roles.

- Experience as an EVMS Control Account Manager (CAM).

- Experience working with DoD government/military personnel.

- Experience leading a team or driving performance against schedule.

- Experience with task management tools (preferably JIRA) and EVMS.

- Experience with functional decomposition, interface definition, and use case definition.

- Experience in evaluating/writing requirements, leading small architecture teams, decomposing functionality in CAMEO.

- Excellent verbal and written communication, mentoring, interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate with senior management, customers, peers, and employees.

Primary Level Salary Range: $139,100.00 - $208,700.00The 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.