Staff Electronics Engineer – Engineering Architect Lead
Quick Summary
Manage and oversee a team of architects, engineers, drafters, and SMT leads Focal for capturing project statement of work &
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Electronics Engineer – Engineering Architect Lead to join our team in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA or Palmdale, CA.
This candidate will be responsible for leading a team of data center architects, drafters, and Subcontract Management Team (SMT) leads, to develop implementation strategy and engineering documentation tracking to fielding visions for upgrading and delivering large data centers. The candidate should be a self-starter with experience in electronics engineering or equivalent technologies familiar working within an Integrated Product Team construct.
Responsibilities
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Manage and oversee a team of architects, engineers, drafters, and SMT leads
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Focal for capturing project statement of work & requirements for upcoming upgrades and installations
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Lead team in developing designs and engineering documentation for upcoming upgrades and installations
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Lead team in resolving critical issues discovered while upgrading, delivering, or sustaining systems, identify risk/issue/opportunity as required
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Support strategic planning for future upgrades and deliveries
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Oversee procurement of equipment for future upgrades and deliveries
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Provide proposal input for the engineering development aspects of new contracts
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Attend Technical Review Boards (TRB) for visibility into Change Requests (CR)
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Support Technical Review Boards (TRB) to include reviewing a approving that are generated by Installation and Builds
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Ensure that change requests are incorporated into upgrade planning so that they can be applied to the systems
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Establish cost/schedule baseline for the engineering development activities for upcoming upgrades and deliveries
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Review weekly name runs for accuracy, provide cost analysis, and take performance on a weekly basis for engineering development activities
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Provide monthly Estimate To Complete (ETC) updates and Estimate At Complete (EAC) adjustments that are needed
Requirements
~3 min readBachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 9 years of related engineering experience.
Experience leading cross-functional technical teams
Hands-on experience in electronics engineering, systems engineering and/or aerospace engineering
Proven ability to effectively work across multiple organizations, geographic locations, and levels to form teams, gain internal support, act with speed, and make tough decisions
Experience and knowledge of Project/Program Management processes to include Control Account Management (CAM) Earned Value Management (EVM), Risks – Issues - Opportunities (RIO) processes, project planning and scheduling, staffing, coordination and oversight of technical work effort
Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
Demonstrated success in leading, collaborating, and developing cross functional teams of varying degrees of skill on complex technical projects including some or all aspects of engineering project life cycle
Experience with Agile processes
Experience with Cost Account Management and Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
Experience with Configuration Control Boards (CCBs)
Experience using MS Project
Experience with datacenter design and/or hardware/software field installations
Experience with Engineering Drawings
Active DoD 8140 approved IAT Level II (or higher) compliant certification. Examples include: CCNA Security, Security+CE, CCNP, and CISSP.
Familiarity with storage systems and basic networking
Familiarity with Solaris 11 and Oracle OEM
Familiarity Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Active Directory
Familiarity VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, and high-availability virtualized infrastructures
Familiarity with IT/documentation tools such as Sphinx, Jinja, YAML, rest
Familiarity with cloud computing systems
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 8, 2026
- First seen
- October 5, 2026
- Last seen
- October 11, 2026
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- 0
- Trust Level
- 13%
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- October 11, 2026
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