Manager Data Analytics 2

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · El Segundo, CA +1 · Data Science

Manager of Data Analytics for Mission Assurance at Northrop Grumman, leading a team of data professionals to develop analytics strategies, build frameworks, and provide data-driven insights for business decisions and predictive outcomes. Responsibilities include managing staff, aligning tools, engaging stakeholders, and overseeing data infrastructure and projects, including those on classified programs. Requires a STEM degree, significant experience in data analytics and management, and a Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support requirements capture, design and technical implementation related to Data Analytics
  2. Manage capacity, priorities, and performance for a high performing team of Database Engineers, Data Insight Analysts, and Data Scientists
  3. Aligning Mission Assurance tools with functional, sector, and enterprise standards and best practices
  4. Actively engage with customers and stakeholders to ensure services are delivered to meet or exceed expectations in a highly complex and dynamic environment
  5. Acts as liaison with decision makers by providing data-informed strategic direction, and as a liaison with subject matter experts to obtain data sets and set expectations

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and 9 years of Analysis, Mission Assurance, Systems Engineer or relevant experience.; 7 years with a Master's degree (STEM)
  • Experience with data analytics and data science tools and techniques
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for varied audiences on analytical subject matter
  • Experience in process improvement methodologies, tools, and techniques
  • Experience in identifying and driving operational/organizational change and excellence
  • Proven ability to manage, prioritize, and provide transparency to projects being worked
  • Proven people management experience leading an organization
  • Demonstrated experience leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product/technology visions and innovative solutions, and fostering effective teams
  • Demonstrated ability to transform business requirements to specific analytical tools
  • Understanding of mission assurance practices and processes
  • Ability to extract and manipulate data from databases (e.g., SQL)
  • Ability to use statistical programming languages (e.g., R, Python)
  • Proficient in data visualization using Tableau or similar visualization tool
  • Experience working with MES and SAP data
  • Active DOD Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
  • Degree in quantitative field (e.g., Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics)
  • Experience with PEO
  • Experience with Airflow or Dagster
  • Experience with Azure DevOps TFS or JIRA
  • Experience with U/X design principles
  • Solid statistical understanding and exposure to more advanced analytics, such as machine learning
  • Active DOD Secret, or Top Secret clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
  • CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
  • Coordinating projects on classified programs
  • Active DOD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SAP
  • Solid statistical understanding and exposure to more advanced analytics, such as machine learning