Northrop Grumman - Oklahoma City, OK
posted about 2 months ago
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. As a Manager of Software Engineering 1, you will oversee a team of professionals who are actively developing Custom Testing Solutions and Specialized Support Equipment for the B-2 Stealth Bomber and LGM-35A Sentinel Missile platforms. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our software engineering team meets the technical quality, cost, and schedule objectives while adhering to sound software engineering principles and compliance with all published processes and standards. You will be responsible for managing the staffing profile for a software team of approximately 10 Software Engineers, focusing on people leadership, performance management, employee engagement, and recognition. In this position, you will manage the workload of your employees, balancing their needs with business goals. You will provide proposal inputs and review proposal content for both internal and external customers, supporting the estimation of labor and reviewing Basis of Estimate documents for proposals associated with the software domain. Your role will also involve implementing Agile development techniques and metrics to help manage team progress and quality throughout the software development life cycle. Excellent communication, mentoring, and interpersonal skills are essential as you will interface with all levels of leadership to meet or exceed performance for all program deliverables. You will own and lead improvements across employee engagement, hiring, development, training, attraction, and retention of top talent. Mentoring, developing, and training team members will be a key part of your responsibilities, ensuring that the team is well-equipped to tackle the challenges of software engineering in the aerospace and defense industry. This position is based in Oklahoma City, OK, and requires an active DoD SECRET or higher security clearance with an investigation in the last five years.