Sr Principal Agile Product Owner

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr Principal Agile Product Owner to help lead and enable multiple software development feature teams. In this onsite role in Morrisville, NC, you will own integrated product planning and help drive execution of high-level business goals across a Ground System product line that supports multiple constellations. You will represent Product Management as the voice of customers and guide integrated prioritization, dependencies, and delivery within a defined period.

What you’ll be empowered to deliver

Lead an Integrated Capability Roadmap and ensure alignment across program, engineering, and feature teams. You’ll translate customer needs and program strategy into actionable capabilities, then work through planning and delivery rhythms to keep priorities, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done ready for execution.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Integrated Capability Roadmap
• Partner with Project Leads to prioritize Features and Capabilities
• Coordinate with the Chief Engineer to ensure Capability and Technical Roadmap alignment
• Ensure priorities reflect Customer needs and Program strategy
• Engage with Project Leads to support customer satisfaction and alignment on priorities
• Work with Feature Team Product Owners, Architects, and Project Leads to break down capabilities into team-executable features
• Partner with SEIT, POs, Architects, and Project Leads to ensure features and capabilities are complete
• Ensure features include stories needed to complete all work required for Definition of Done
• Accountable that Acceptance Criteria defined by Project Leads are adequately defined, understood, and testable
• Work directly with POs to ensure compliance with the roadmap and effective roadmap communication
• Ensure consistency and compliance across PO work, including feature/story/acceptance criteria definitions and feature acceptance
• Present the contents going into the Joint Release at the Gate Review, providing context and purpose for each Joint Release item
• Participate in joint Gate Reviews with the CPO and I&T Lead
• Attend weekly customer tag-ups, Joint Working Group meetings, and product line customer-facing meetings (not expected to be the voice of the product line)

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance (SCI required)
• Completed Bachelor’s degree
• Experience level: 8 years relevant experience with a Bachelor’s in Science; 6 years with a Master’s; 4 years with a PhD
• Experience with big picture priorities and operating within a product line, or managing multiple customer priorities in one baseline
• Ability to translate high-level business goals into roadmaps and integrated plans (including Gantt charts and/or integrated roadmaps)
• Mastery of Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale
• Proficiency with the Atlassian tool suite, especially JIRA
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and leadership experience

Preferred qualifications

• Strong technical background in software development or systems engineering within an Agile software development program
• Industry-recognized credentials such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, or CPrO-C
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills
• Proven record managing, mentoring, and scaling cross-functional product and engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to analyze feature team performance metrics to identify trends and course-correct or implement process changes

Technologies

• SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale
• Atlassian tool suite, JIRA
• Gantt charts

Compensation and benefits

• Salary: USD 135,800 - 213,400 per year
• Comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package
• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• Depending on the position, eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
• Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results
• Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives

Clearance, travel, and eligibility

• Clearance required to start: Yes (SCI)
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
• Relocation assistance: may be available
• U.S. citizenship requirement: U.S. Citizenship is required for positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted roles

Application period: Estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date (may be shortened or extended).