Sr Staff Product Line Engineering Coach

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 Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Staff Product Line Engineering Coach to join the PLA (Product Line Alignment) team within the Capability Maturation Alignment & Deployment (CMAD) organization. Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a way to engineer a family of related products in an efficient manner, taking full advantage of the products’ similarities while respecting and managing their differences. The mission of the PLA team is to foster the adoption of product lines across the Mission Systems organization through coaching, training, guidance, best practices, tools, and metrics for measuring success. This highly visible role will support teams that are both already executing Product Line organizational change and teams that are new to the process by helping them implement successful product lines. Responsibilities include: Build relationships with senior technical and business leaders at the division level across Missions Systems to provide guidance on their role in the PLA adoption process and ensure successful transition to PLE for their teams. Adapt Systems and Product or Software Architecture Experience to Increase Product Line efficiency and adoption from Development and Production through the Sustainment. Persistence in organizational change to Increase Product Line Adoption across Mission Systems. Use existing knowledge of software architecture and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) tools to help define and shape the PL adoption strategy for PL teams and at the division level across the NGMS sector. Provide coaching on PL principles, practices, and the adoption process and work with the product line team and division leadership to identify where the process needs to be tailored to meet individual organization requirements. Create new coaching materials including tools, templates, techniques, and processes. Help teams create and modify their product lines using MBSE tools like Cameo, IBM Rhapsody Architect and Pure::Variants to track product line variation. Schedule and conduct PLE focused education and awareness sessions, surveys, technology demonstrations, and other training events. Ensure our product line engineering strategy is aligned with NG digital transformation strategy. Use of Confluence to document status and new processes. The selected candidate must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Being a charismatic coach with a passion for mentoring and leading change within all levels of an organization is key to instantiating a successful product line.