RA Systems Software Eng with Northrop Grumman

Company: Northrop Grumman
Position: RA Systems Software Engineer
Location: Huntsville, AL
Duration: long term, ongoing contract – we are a direct sub to the C2BMC program
Clearance: Secret, will hold TS if you have it
Program – C2BMC

"The purpose of the Regional Applications Systems Engineer Coordinator is to serve as the primary software technical liaison between Regional Applications (RA) cross-functional product teams and Systems Engineering, Verification, Integration, and Test RMAs for system engineering-related efforts. The candidate will be responsible for coordinating RA efforts for software updates, end-to-end systems engineering, requirements flow analysis, verification & validation, and test event activities, providing systems engineering-focused expertise and leadership to ensure a disciplined software development approach to the definition, development, and analysis of system capabilities.

Essential Functions:
• The successful candidate will have professional experience in Software Development, Systems Engineering, Verification Engineering, or related disciplines
• Participation in verification and validation planning or execution (creating test plans, managing test cases, tracking defects)
• Effective written and oral communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to collaborate with senior subject matter experts to create designs that enable development within applications
• The candidate must have extensive experience leading teams
• Review Support Interface Control Document (ICD), communication status, upcoming milestones, and dependencies
• Support the V&V test plans and assist in coordinating test execution across test labs and cross-functional teams
• Coordinate problem reports with Solution Chiefs, conduct customer reviews, and oversee releases to identify issues and recommend future solutions
• Assist with staffing activities such as reviewing resumes, conducting interviews, and selecting candidates
• The successful candidate will support Solution Leadership to ensure that design documents and artifacts are completed for the Product Teams when required
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, government, and customer representatives to support critical daily operations and distributed multi-element deliveries and activities

Basic Qualifications:
Please list your current security clearance and IAT or relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field from an accredited university, along with 8 years of experience; or a Master’s degree in a related field with 6 years of relevant work experience; or 12 years of relevant work experience may be considered as an alternative to a degree
• Applicants must have a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
• Support requirements flow (CES, SCN, and PCN) and reviews, communication status, upcoming milestones, and dependencies
• Support the preparation of Bases of Estimates (BOEs), Engineering Estimates (EEs), proposal responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and similar activities
• Software Architecture Design Document (SADD) and Functional Architecture Design Document (FADD) manager responsible for coordinating the content and maintenance of these documents
• Assist management with scheduling and technical aspects of the Regional Applications, including Iteration Planning and Task Order support
• Knowledge of missile defense systems such as U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), the sea-based Aegis system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), space-based systems, and Link 16 domain.
• Requirements elicitation, analysis, functional allocation, interface control documents (ICDs), and basics of SysML/UML
• Schedule development (MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet), task tracking (Jira, Azure DevOps), and resource planning
• Document control (SharePoint, Confluence, CMIS), dashboard development (Power BI, Tableau), metrics collection
• Technical writing, presentation design, stakeholder engagement, and meeting facilitation
• Agile/SAFe exposure

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience as Technical Lead, Software Development Lead, Systems Engineering SME, Verification Engineering, or Systems Engineering leader in the Missile Defense, Space, or Link 16 Domain
• Experience working in an integrated team environment with other systems, software, verification, and specialty engineers to develop solutions
• Experience in identifying and defining system capabilities; communicating these capabilities to a diverse group of software developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users; and creating artifacts to document and manage the achievement of the system capabilities
• Experience working with a senior team to develop software designs based on systems engineering products and artifacts
• Familiarity with software development programs
• Plan (SDP), Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), and other standard process documentation
• Experience in developing system engineering, software engineering, verification engineering, or architecture artifacts (e.g., specifications, interface control documents, use cases, system architecture descriptions, trade studies, etc.)
• Experience in creating briefings, reviewing architecture designs and artifacts, and presenting at DoD Customer Design Reviews
• Experience as a technical leader in DoD Systems Engineering, Verification Engineering, or Software Development efforts
• Knowledge of ICDs, IDDs, requirements creation, or verification tasks
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and/or Digital Engineering Transformation (DET) methodologies and solutions
• Familiarity with Agile development and Scrum practices"