Sr Staff Product Line Coach

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Staff Product Line Coach to join the PLA (Product Line Alignment) team within the Capability Maturation Alignment & Deployment (CMAD) organization. Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a way to engineer a family of related products in an efficient manner, taking full advantage of the products’ similarities while respecting and managing their differences. The mission of the PLA team is to foster the adoption of product lines across the Mission Systems organization through coaching, training, guidance, best practices, tools, and metrics for measuring success.

This highly visible role will support teams that are both already executing Product Line organizational change and teams that are new to the process by helping them implement successful product lines. Responsibilities include:

• Build relationships with senior technical and business leaders at the division level across Missions Systems to provide guidance on their role in the PLA adoption process and ensure successful transition to PLE for their teams
• Adapt Systems and Product or Software Architecture Experience to Increase Product Line efficiency and adoption from Development and Production through the Sustainment
• Persistence in organizational change to Increase Product Line Adoption across Mission Systems
• Use existing knowledge of software architecture and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) tools to help define and shape the PL adoption strategy for PL teams and at the division level across the NGMS sector
• Provide coaching on PL principles, practices, and the adoption process and work with the product line team and division leadership to identify where the process needs to be tailored to meet individual organization requirements
• Create new coaching materials including tools, templates, techniques, and processes
• Help teams create and modify their product lines using MBSE tools like Cameo, IBM Rhapsody Architect and Pure::Variants to track product line variation
• Schedule and conduct PLE focused education and awareness sessions, surveys, technology demonstrations, and other training events
• Ensure our product line engineering strategy is aligned with NG digital transformation strategy
• Use of Confluence to document status and new processes
   

The selected candidate must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Being a charismatic coach with a passion for mentoring and leading change within all levels of an organization is key to instantiating a successful product line.

Basic Qualifications:

• Fourteen years with Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline or other related technical curriculum; 12 years with a Master’s Degree; or 9 years with a Ph.D. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• US Citizenship required
• Active DoD Secret clearance or the ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance prior to starting and sustain the DoD Secret security clearance.
• Must be comfortable working in an Agile team and leading organizational change
• Coaching skills and behaviors:
• Change Agent: Focus on embedding change; develop formal vision, roadmaps, and incremental change plans
• Systems Engineering skills:
• Requirements management methods and tools
• Systems architecture development and Model-based Engineering (MBE) and MBSE methods and tools, such as IBM Rhapsody, Cameo, etc.
• Must be comfortable working senior leaders at a division level and above to develop Product Line strategy
• Exposure to one or more of the following:
  • Traceability across the systems engineering lifecycle
  • Engineering processes and governance
  • Family of Systems or Family of Products
  • Model-Based Engineering, Model-Based systems Engineering or Model-Based Architecture
  • Strategic reuse or variant management
     

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Secret Clearance
• Experience working with Systems Architecture, Software architecture, Product Architecture or Chief Engineering roles
• Software development tools, methods, and best practices
• Experience with Sensor System Development, including RF and/or Electro-optical and Infrared
• Product line engineering experience internal or external to Northrop Grumman
• Systems, and/or software or hardware architecture derivation and development experience
• Active in the PLE Community of Practice (CoP) or presented PLE content at relevant industry conferences or NG Symposiums
• Leading organizational change, in partnership with executive management and technical leadership
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)

*This position is contingent upon the ability to obtain/maintain DoD Secret Clearance prior to starting.

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

Link to Benefits: https://totalrewards.northropgrumman.com/ 

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

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.