Software Engineering Manager ; Flight Management SYS​/SW Archite Security Clearance

Position: Software Engineering Manager 2 (Flight Management SYS/SW Archite with Security Clearance
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
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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.

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Manager Software Engineer to join our Global Surveillance Division team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida. The Manager Software Engineering (Flight Management System Software Architect) position will be focused on software. This position is a dual-hat position requiring the candidate to perform functional management activities as well as the individual's program responsibilities.

It is expected that the Functional management role will comprise 15% to 20% of the candidate's time. This is a dual-hat position so the remaining 80% to 85% of the selectee's time will be directly funded activities in support of an MDC2 program. The candidate should have a strong technical background in software development and embedded systems, including strong C/C++, software requirements and software design experience.

Software Development focus is for mission applications using software engineering best practices & standards and participate in the full life cycle of software development to include C++ coding to NGAS and MDC2 coding standards, unit testing and software integration testing, software requirements and design documentation and support for program reviews. Management duties will require tasking and coordination of approximately 10-13 engineers, and process and resource coordination with functional homeroom management.

You will serve as an organization spokesperson on advanced projects and/or programs. Acts as advisor to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications. Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts. Work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious. Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives.

Assignments are often self-initiated. Determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior. Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and affect the image of the organization's technological capability.

This will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly. You will be expected to take ownership of hard problems and drive toward a solution, while working in a multi-disciplined team environment. You will develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while…