Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack Software Discipline Lead)

About the role

The Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Sector (NGAS) Software Engineering Center of Technical Excellence (CoTE) is creating an Everything-as-Code (XaC) ecosystem powered by an AI-augmented workforce and a resilient software factory. Our mission is to deliver mission effects at the speed of relevance by continuously evolving the tools, processes, training, and metrics that make the software-engineering ecosystem efficient, measurable, and future-ready.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Software discipline, aligned to long-term sector strategy.
• Regularly interface with EI&E discipline leads to identify program needs and close gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training.
• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of sector-wide engineering tools, standardized processes, digital solutions, and technical training— ensuring they are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs.
• Build and sustain a strong Software Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring alignment of sub-CoPs, strategies, and priorities while fostering collaboration across programs and sub-disciplines.
• Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root cause analysis, corrective action planning, long-term verification of improvement.
• Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance.

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 14 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12 or more years of experience in software engineering OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 9 years of software engineering experience.
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more technology areas: Front end client-side languages/frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React or TypeScript, Back-end server-side programing languages such as Python, Java, Node.js, API design experience such as REST, GraphQL or gRPC, Database knowledge in either SQL, NoSQL or MongoDB, Networking basics, such as HTTP or websockets, Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and containerization.
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more Core Technical Competency areas: Geospatial Engineering, Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Interoperability Standards, Cross-Domain Governance, Cybersecurity Governance, Open Systems Architectures.
• Must have an active U.S. government Secret clearance that is in-scope (granted or renewed in the last 6 years) and eligibility for TS/SCI.
• Ability to travel as needed (approx. 25%).

Qualifications

• Core Technical Competencies: Cloud & Distributed Computing, Geospatial Engineering, Engineering Foundations, Software Construction, Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Interoperability Standards, Cross-Domain Governance, Cybersecurity Governance, Open Systems Architectures.

Skills

• Strategic, systems-level thinker who can build alignment across functional and program boundaries.

Benefits

• Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.
• Discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay.
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Pay

• Oklahoma: $157,800 - $236,600
• Florida: $166,500 - $249,700
• California: $192,800 - $289,200

Schedule

• Geographically flexible and can be based out of any one of the 5 locations listed above.