Consulting Engineer

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $192.8k - $289.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Northrop Grumman

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1939

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Logistics • Defense

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense company, recognized for its innovative solutions in air, cyber, land, sea, and space domains. With a focus on advanced technologies and innovation, Northrop Grumman provides unmatched expertise in military communications, satellite communications, and microelectronics manufacturing. The company is committed to solving complex challenges and 'defining possible' by transforming the concepts of what's achievable. Northrop Grumman is also actively involved in sustainability efforts and offers career opportunities to various levels of professionals, including veterans and entry-level candidates.

📋 Description

• Serve as Lead of Architecture and Engineering for approximately 190 enterprise platforms and applications • Own the technical performance and health of platforms and applications, including reliability, scalability, cybersecurity, and lifecycle strategy • Define and maintain enterprise technical strategy, architectures, reference designs, governed data, and integration patterns • Provide independent technical authority for major platform investments, modernization initiatives, and critical design decisions • Conduct trade studies and risk assessments • Drive platform rationalization and reuse to reduce duplication, improve integration, and lower long-term cost and technical debt • Partner with the CIDO Strategy & Architecture organization, Office of the Chief Engineer, architects, engineers, governance teams, business stakeholders, and portfolio leads • Apply systems and software engineering standards, including requirements development and management, trade studies, design reviews, and automated testing • Define, implement, and track technical performance and health metrics across application portfolios • Use metrics to drive continuous improvement • Lead or participate in technical reviews, gate reviews, and design reviews • Mentor and develop architects and senior engineers and foster a community of practice • Interface with senior leaders including the CFO, CEQSO, CHRO, CIDO, General Counsel, and other CEO direct reports • Provide technical leadership over approximately $100M in annual investment across enterprise IT solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline and 16 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 14 years, or PhD with 11 years • Demonstrated experience as a chief architect, chief engineer, or equivalent technical leader for large-scale software and supplier-heavy portfolios • Proven track record architecting and delivering complex solutions across multiple domains • Expertise in modern application and platform technologies, including one or more of: cloud platforms; microservices and API-driven architectures; containerization; enterprise integration frameworks; data platforms, data warehouses/lakes, analytics environments; artificial intelligence • Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices, especially automated testing • Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and mentoring all levels of engineers/architects • Exceptional communication skills, including conveying complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including C-suite stakeholders • Located near a major Northrop Grumman site (preferred) • Architect experience in a large, complex organization (preferred) • Familiarity with ITIL (preferred) • Direct experience with enterprise business-function platforms in regulated or defense/aerospace environments (preferred) • Direct experience working in business development, program management, financial management, human resources, supply chain, engineering, or manufacturing in a Northrop Grumman sector (preferred) • Experience driving portfolio rationalization, modernization, and technical debt reduction initiatives at enterprise scale (preferred) • Strong understanding of cybersecurity, identity and access management, and data protection (preferred) • Contributions to industry bodies, standards, publications, or patents in relevant technical areas (preferred) • U.S. Citizenship is required for positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Phenomenal learning opportunities • Exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers • Friendly team environment • Exceptional benefits/healthcare • Health insurance coverage • Life and disability insurance • Savings plan • Company paid holidays • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business • 9/80 work schedule option • 401k matching program • Potential eligibility for overtime • Potential eligibility for shift differential • Potential eligibility for discretionary bonus • Potential eligibility for Long Term Incentives for Vice President or Director positions