Product Owner 3/4 on Starfleet Program

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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.

PGS

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

Aurora

You'll be joining our Aurora Software and Controls Department which has 200+ Technical staff in various leadership roles, Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects. This engineering organization supports numerous programs within the Payload and Ground Systems organization. We have plenty of opportunity for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. We are part of a larger local engineering organization that includes Systems Engineering and Hardware Engineering staff. This overall local engineering organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

Program

You’ll be joining an existing on-contract classified portfolio called Swordfish and one of its program’s called Starfleet. Starfleet is supporting a critical national security mission that is both in Operations and major development. The program team is based in Aurora, CO yet has a distributed team located at several other Northrop Grumman sites across the US as well as at distributed collaborating partner company sites. Some of the program’s baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some work outside a secure facility. Once you are fully program cleared, you will see and understand the full software lifecycle and full program mission. The overall team is about 30 staff, most are located in Aurora. The team is composed of software developers organized into agile scrum teams that primarily work in two large rooms with cubicle like individual spaces (rather than in dedicated offices). The program’s culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technology, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product.

This program is seeking experienced engineers that are at the beginner to intermediate level of experience as a Product Owner. Given the team structure, there are multiple Product Owners (one per agile team) and a Chief Product Owner.

Job responsibilities include: Partnering with stakeholders to define the product vision at the team level while prioritizing "what" the team is working on to deliver value to the customer. Assessing the performance of and shapes the structure and direction of new/existing software products. Developing or assisting in developing and executing strategic product plans. Assisting the team in achieving specific goals for each product, including evaluating product performance, and identifying innovations to deliver business value and address customer needs to improve the product's performance. Actively managing and escalating risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to program management.

As successful Product Owner accomplishes these responsibilities by doing the following: Builds product backlog, prioritizes its items to achieve Objectives and Key Results and continuously keeps it up to date. Holds meetings with the product team to continuously update product backlog. Participates in the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results for the product team and ensure alignment with senior leadership. Creates and/or maintains key product documentation. Interacts and collaborates with stakeholders on key product considerations and aligns with product vision, features and roadmap. Leverages customer insights, feedback, financials, compliance, and risk data to define product features and roadmap in partnership with other SMEs. Defines functional and non-functional product requirements; ensure completeness; integral and consistent; source of requirements for product team. Creates and validates user story acceptance criteria. Defines and ensures appropriate testing frameworks for product features.

Product Owners at our Principal (03) and Senior Principal (04) levels are expected to quickly gain mission and system domain knowledge coupling that with prior experience to mentor and influence others as well as contribute to advancing the program forward through their job. The program appreciates team members that identify and propose improvement ideas in technology, process, architecture, or tooling and are fast-learners.

If you thrive in this kind of environment, then please apply so we can consider you.

Basic Qualifications:

• Level 3 - Bachelors in Science with 5 Years of professionally relevant experience; or 3 Years of professionally relevant experience with Masters in Science; 4 additional years of professional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Level 4 - Bachelors in Science with 8 Years of professionally relevant experience; or 6 Years of professionally relevant experience with Masters in Science; 4 additional years of professional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active Top Secret clearance required to apply. Ability to obtain and maintain SCI clearance after starting work.
• Ability to pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly), yet not required to start
• Experience as an engineer (or developer) on an agile software development program spanning the lifecycle from development to production deployment
• Experience using Atlassian’s Jira tool

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering with a software or embedded systems focus, or Systems Engineering
• Current (or prior) Product Owner, Scrum Master, or Scaled Agile Framework Certificate(s)
• Current (or prior) Jira Certificate
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Prior completed Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
• Prior engineering experience within the Space Industry
• At least 1 year of experience in an Agile Product Owner role
• Experience in other Agile servant leadership roles, such as Scrum Master
• Excellent presentation, communication, technical writing, and organization skills
• Experience sharing knowledge via mentoring, coaching, or training
• Experience managing multiple tasks at a time with good results even under pressure
• At least 2 years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer OR as a Systems Engineer
• If a Software Engineer background, then development experience in JAVA, experience using Docker and Kubernetes, experience with relational databases (RDMS), and experience using Kafka
• If a Systems Engineer background, then experience as a Systems Engineer on a system or program that uses JAVA, Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases, and Kafka
• Ability to travel (yet very limited, up to 5%)

Salary Range: $110,300.00 - $165,500.00Salary Range 2: $137,400.00 - $206,000.00

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 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 all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.