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.
The Insights & Intelligence (i2) organization is looking for individuals to work on fast-paced special projects to support critical business initiatives with executive sponsorship. The right individuals are engineers that have demonstrated experiences across data engineering and data science, are deeply curious about how businesses operate, and enjoys building scalable products. You will work directly with domain product owners to empower the business and its decision-making using data.
This position can be hired as a Level 3 or Level 4, depending upon the selected candidate's experience and education. This role can be performed as a virtual telecommuter.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the design and development of products for fast-paced special projects.
Help shape the evolving data platform within CIDO by building reusable components and sharing ideas on architecture and best practices.
Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists to translate strategic questions into data products and pipelines.
Design, code, test, and deploy production-grade data pipelines and models using Python/PySpark and SQL within Databricks.
Translate business requests into design specifications and requirements to build data engineering models, structures, and machine learning models that help scale our analytics.
Basic Qualifications for a Level 3: Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least 5 years of relevant professional experience; Master's degree and 3 years of experience.
Basic Qualifications for a Level 4: Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least 8 years of relevant professional experience; Master's degree and 6 years of experience.
Additional Basic Qualifications for both levels:
Must have, at minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
Must have a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data science, or software engineering.
Must have experience with Python and SQL.
Must have experience with AWS, containerization, and Git.
Understand the importance of software engineering best practices in data development.
Proven ability to tackle ambiguous, cross‑domain business problems and turn them into concrete data solutions.
Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to translate technical concepts and data requirements for business partners.
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong experience in deploying production software engineering products or data engineering products.
Experience in technical business consulting, ability to take customer requests from ambiguity to deployable product.
Knowledge of domain-driven data ownership concepts
Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00Secondary Level Salary Range: $129,300.00 - $193,900.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 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.