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Northrop Grumman · 9 hours ago

Data Engineer (Level 2 or Level 3)

Northrop Grumman is a pioneering technology company with a rich history of innovation. They are seeking data engineers to work on fast-paced special projects that support critical business initiatives, focusing on building data products to enhance decision-making processes.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of data products for fast-paced special projects
Help shape the evolving data platform within CIDO by building reusable components and sharing ideas on architecture and best practices
Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists to translate strategic questions into data products and pipelines
Design, code, test, and deploy production-grade data pipelines using Python/PySpark and SQL within Databricks
Translate business requests into design specifications and requirements to build data engineering models and structures that help scale our analytics
Own the end to end lifecycle of at least one data product—from initial discovery to production monitoring and iterative improvement

Qualification

Data engineeringPythonSQLAWSContainerizationGitSoftware engineering best practicesTechnical business consultingDomain-driven data ownership

Required

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least 2 years of relevant professional experience for Level 2; Master's degree and zero years of experience
Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least 5 years of relevant professional experience for Level 3; Master's degree and 3 years of experience
Must have, at minimum, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
Level 2 - Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, software engineering, or software development
Level 3 - Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, software engineering, or software development
Experience with Python and SQL
Experience with AWS, containerization, and Git
Understand the importance of software engineering best practices in data development
Proven ability to tackle ambiguous, cross‑domain business problems and turn them into concrete data solutions
Proven ability to translate technical concepts and data requirements for business partners

Preferred

Strong experience in deploying production software engineering products or data engineering products
Experience in technical business consulting, ability to take customer requests from ambiguity to deployable product
Knowledge of domain-driven data ownership concepts

Benefits

Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

Company

Northrop Grumman

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Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$3.7B
Key Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M

Leadership Team

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Tom Wilson
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Business Development
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Jeffrey Worsham
Chief Product Owner - Advanced Technology Development
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