Job Description

Description

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman Space Systems has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you rsquo;ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Tactical Space Systems Division (TSSD) is seeking a Staff Program Agile Product Owner to support the Program Chief Engineer within our Space Security business unit. This person must demonstrate success leading locally and virtually as a part of a geographically dispersed team.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate success in applying leadership behaviors to achieve sustainable top performance, a commitment to ethics and integrity, and the capability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business.

Excellent verbal and writing communication skills are required. The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate strong leadership skills and will have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

This position may be performed from Dulles, VA or remotely.

Roles and Responsibilities include:

* Support the Program Chief Engineer with providing oversite and leadership to Program Scrum teams.
* Serve as Program Product Owner, collaborate with Product Managers, 13+ agile scrum teams and their associated product owners/scrum masters to define the work so that the integrated team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period.
* Champion consistency across the Program Scrum teams ensuring common tools and training/skill development through all levels of the organization.
* Interface with multiple disciplines including customers, internal executive management, program management, software and system engineering.
* Will be required to effectively communicate technical progress to customers, senior leadership, and companywide audiences
* Support the program rsquo;s transition to Agile and subsequently Scaled Agile Software Development Lifecycle processes
* Must be capable of strong partnership to ensure lockstep coordination with adjacent discipline areas and program manager leadership.

Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

bull; Minimum Education / Experience: 15+ Years with Bachelors in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math ndash; or related technical area) or closely related discipline; 12 Years with Masters.

bull; Industry certification(s) in Agile or Scaled Agile Framework

bull; Strong experience working Agile programs

bull; The candidate must have the ability to work effectively in a team environment, and possess strong communication and presentation skills

bull; US Citizenship is required for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

bull; Master of Science in STEM discipline and/or MBA degree

bull; Experience managing complex projects using the Atlassian suite of SDLC tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc)

bull; Willingness to obtain Top Secret / SCI clearance