Staff Chief Software Product Owner (T05) - R10209266

Staff Chief Software Product Owner (T05) - R10209266

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.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

We have an opening for a Staff Chief Software Product Owner (T05) to join our Starfleet program in Manhattan Beach, CA. The Software and Controls Department has 200+ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects.

In this role, you will lead product strategy across multiple agile teams, ensuring alignment with customer needs / requirements and technical capabilities, informed by the Chief Engineer (CE) and Chief Architect (CA). You will have to balance strategic vision with tactical execution, driving cross-team collaboration, backlog prioritization, and managing stakeholder expectations to deliver high-impact outcomes.

Additional Responsibilities Include

• Report programmatically to the Starfleet Program Manager (PM)
• Main technical POC to the customer for backlog management guidance
• Accountable for ensuring accurate and timely delivery of software
• Accountable for the deployed software products
• Supports Risk and Opportunity Management process by identifying and owning applicable risks
• Responsible for horizontal (across Starfleet teams) and vertical (across external teams) scope and schedule of software deliverables
• Manage the program Backlog and ensure non-functional requirements are captured as part of Product Definitions
• Accountable for software product planning based on Government objectives
• Work with Program and Functional Management to ensure the Software Team has qualified personnel to execute
• Responsible for the transition of the software product to Operations
• Final authority for release scope and schedule
• Ensure Mission Engineering is informed and jointly conduct technical solution analysis with CE and Mission Engineering

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http : / / www.northropgrumman.com / EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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