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Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a candidate with outstanding leadership skills to fill a Cyber Systems Engineering Manager 1 position for the Intelligence & Sensing Solutions (I&SS) Cybersecurity Solutions (CS) organization in the Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization located in Annapolis Junction, MD.

This is a dual role position encompassing both people leadership and direct technical performance. This position will manage a team that may support multiple programs, projects, and initiatives.

The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate strong leadership skills and have success as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Team Technical Performance:

The candidate should have a technical performance role currently in place that can account for at least 80% of their time.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at our Annapolis Junction, MD location.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Functional responsibilities include staffing and workload forecast, employee inclusion, engagement, mentoring and career development

• Ensure team has a clear purpose and clear roles

• Communicate information to employees in a timely manner to help them to be productive and engaged

• Give direct feedback to people on her/his team about their performance and potential in the organization

• Find and develop talent

• Ensure personnel within the discipline team are meeting technical requirements of supported programs

Technical Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions

• Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software

• Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls

• Prepares operating instructions

• Designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems

• Ensures software standards are met

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree, or higher, in a related field and 3 or more years of experience in software, hardware, or systems engineering.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required

• Ability to obtain program approval on EPICCOASTER

• Experience leading multi-discipline engineering teams such as a Product Owner or Scrum Master

• Proven leadership skills as a people and technical leader

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with Agile methodologies

• Previous Functional Management Experience

• Experienced in all aspects of the Engineering processes and Software development

• Master's degree in a relevant technical or management specialty

• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (Associate or Certified Level)

Salary Range: $123,200 USD - $184,000 USD

Employees may be eligible for 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 health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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