**Requisition ID: R10181222**

+ **Category:** Engineering

+ **Location:** Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America | Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

+ **Clearance Type:** Secret

+ **Telecommute:** No- Teleworking not available for this position

+ **Shift:** Days (United States of America)

+ **Travel Required:** Yes, 10% of the Time

+ **Positions Available:** 1

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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems – Launch and Missile Defense Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a Staff Systems Engineer – MBSE Team Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Colorado Springs, CO, or Huntsville, AL.

**Position Overview:**

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program integrates the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to see the battle develop collectively, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives.

C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks integrate, synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is integral to all system ground and flight tests, which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.

This is one of five team leadership roles within the Systems Engineering team, which is part of the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Resource Management Area (RMA). This position will support the TO01 SE Task Instruction and Inc10 and beyond systems engineering needs on MBSE and general systems engineering. Ability to be part of an integrated team tasked with developing and maintaining the physical, functional, and technical baselines necessary to describe the desired capabilities of an evolving BMDS Command & Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) System.

**Essential Functions:**

+ Is the first line of leadership for all MBSE team members and reports to the SE Engineering Manager

+ Is responsible for maintaining accurate metrics of team progress

+ Supports all team staffing responsibilities, including interviewing new candidates, dealing with team performance issues, and supporting team member growth and development

+ Is also expected to be technically competent in all the work performed by the team such that they can act as a reviewer of product to ensure quality

+ Is responsible for leading iteration planning for the team

+ Provide support to junior systems engineering team members to enhance their skills in the department

+ Adhering to **DOORS** processes and procedures

+ Review the content and details of technical products

+ Acting as a technical interface to MDA working-level counterparts on an as-required basis

+ Be actively involved in the efforts associated with **Agile** development, including iteration planning and status

+ Communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.

+ Implement engineering plans within a project

+ Support various tasks on short notice

+ Work will be performed under the direction of various technical leads and product owners and require interfacing with team members, C2BMC management, and government customers to ensure high-quality products are generated on time and within the resources available

**Basic Qualifications:**

Please note your updated security clearance and IAT/relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.

+ Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of related work experience, or a Master’s degree in a related STEM discipline and 10 years of work experience, or a PhD and 8 years of work experience.

+ Applicants must have a current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start

+ Ability and willingness to travel up-to 10% to support business needs

+ Specific roles on a program with respect to use case development, requirements solicitation, derivation, and decomposition through a structured and logical approach

+ Demonstrated ability to analyze high-level needs utilizing use cases/scenarios and relate them to the requirements

+ Support the development and review of interface documents, system requirements, Verification Cross Reference Matrix ( **VCRM** ) development, architectural documentation, system engineering estimates, and author and perform formal and informal engineering reviews

+ Must have experience with complex command and control systems, mission analysis, performance analysis, requirements solicitation, decomposition, and management, and application of modeling to testing and verification

+ Demonstrated experience in the development of models to drive solutions in complex systems, with specific expertise in **DoDAF** and **SysML** methodologies (e.g., **OOSEM** or **SysMOD** )

+ Demonstrated ability to perform object-oriented analysis to decompose existing (or proposed) systems into executable SysML models. This requires a thorough understanding of SysML element types to create logical and physical models that depict static and dynamic system behaviors

+ Good understanding of the layered architecture concept and ability to illustrate how layered architecture could be applied to modeling system behaviors such as element interactions, internal and external interfaces, states, and viewpoints/views

+ Extensive experience transitioning mature and evolving projects into MBSE

+ Candidate should have experience with **Cameo** (or **Magic Draw** ) and Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements ( **DOORs** )

+ Deep understanding of requirements solicitation, derivation, and decomposition to lower-level subsystems and components; maintenance of system and component baselines in a requirement management system; defining the relationships between internal and external components; communicating system-level use cases and associated **Epics** and **Feature** relationships to a diverse group of customers, developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Experience with other MBSE tools (is a plus):

+ **SparxEA**

+ **Rhapsody**

+ Should have a good understanding of Data Quality with respect to MBSE model sustainment

+ Experience with Agile Methods and Epic and Feature definition is a plus

+ Experience with Cyber Security, Risk Management, and network design is also desired

**What We Can Offer You:**

**Salary Range:**

Colorado Springs, CO: $,155,400 - $233,200 Huntsville, AL: $163,200 - $244,800

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment that encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family. Your benefits will include the following:

+ Health Plan

+ Savings Plan

+ Paid Time Off

+ Education Assistance

+ Training and Development

+ Flexible Work Arrangements

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**Salary Range:** $155,400 - $233,200

The 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.

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 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.