Software Engineering Manager 2 - Sw Lead

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +2 · Software

Seeking a Software Engineering Manager 2 – SW Lead to lead a team of 10-20 individuals in completing the full software development and test life cycle in an Agile environment. The role involves collaboration with various engineering teams to meet mission objectives and requires experience with real-time, flight-critical, or safety-critical software.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead a team of approximately 10-20 individuals to complete the full software development and test life cycle in an Agile software development environment.
  2. collaborate with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Test Automation, DevSecOps and Systems Test organizations, to ensure the team is meeting the mission engineering objectives of the contract.
  3. implement and utilize several Agile development techniques and metrics to manage the team’s progress and the work quality throughout the product life cycle.
  4. Technical and Functional Lead position that reports to the Enterprise SW IPT Lead on the program side and the Software Department Manager on the functional side.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field AND 9 years of related professional experience that includes a background in software development, OR a Master’s degree AND 7 years of related professional experience that includes a background in software development.
  • Prior leadership experience using agile development, including participating as Product Owner, SCRUM Master, and/or team member in an Agile development environment.
  • Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Experience with integrating software used for one of the following real-time applications: flight critical software, Safety critical software, medical software, or mission critical software
  • Experience with Agile software development, object-oriented architecture and programming, software integration and testing.
  • At least 4 years of recent relevant experience with at least two of the following programming or scripting languages: Java, C, C++, and Python.
  • Experience with one of the following real time operating systems: Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, or Realtime Linux
  • Familiarity with most of the data interfaces: 1553, RS-232 Serial, Discrete & Analog I/O, Ethernet/IP, or Fiber Channel
  • ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.

Nice to have

  • An advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other STEM disciplines.
  • Advanced technical management degree.
  • Prior experience in engineering functional management is a plus.
  • Proven leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills.
  • Previous experience leading a team of 5-12 employees with a record of on-time performance
  • Previous experience in developing proposal inputs (task descriptions and basis of estimate)
  • Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.
  • Prior experience with cost account management and task/resource planning.
  • Understands assembly emitted by C/C++ compilers for typical code constructs
  • Has developed code in assembly to support low level drivers, BSPs, or critical performance implementations
  • Strong understanding of embedded software architectures and requirements that drive them
  • Strong understanding of hardware interfaces in the software architecture and their impacts
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
  • Experience with Java microservices, Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications, threading, intermediate object-oriented programming, design patterns, Data Distribution Service (DDS) messaging, web technologies, Unified Modeling Language (UML), database essentials and SQL/NoSQL.
  • Prior experience using Atlassian Tool Suite, JIRA, SonarQube.

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • flight critical software
  • Safety critical software
  • mission critical software