Manager Data Analytics 2 - El Segundo CA

Manager 2 of Data Analytics

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's Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Manager 2 of Data Analytics. The Manager 2 will be reporting to a Manager 3 within the Process Compliance organization within Mission Assurance. This individual will be leading exciting, cutting-edge initiatives as Mission Assurance continues to build standard performance measures and develop timely insights to guide teams to deliver high quality products. This role will sit in our El Segundo, CA location but we may also consider a hybrid work arrangement for this position.

As a manager of the Mission Assurance Analytics team, you will be responsible for managing a highly technical team, leading the technical analytics and data strategy for the Mission Assurance function, hands-on coaching, problem solving, and creating the right analytics capabilities that align with our mission assurance objectives. In this role, you will be responsible for providing data analytics to drive value across our business, interacting regularly with stakeholders, and developing key analytics frameworks for all business areas turning data into business insights and predictive / autonomous outcomes.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Support requirements capture, design and technical implementation related to Data Analytics
• Manage capacity, priorities, and performance for a high performing team of Database Engineers, Data Insight Analysts, and Data Scientists
• Aligning Mission Assurance tools with functional, sector, and enterprise standards and best practices
• Actively engage with customers and stakeholders to ensure services are delivered to meet or exceed expectations in a highly complex and dynamic environment
• Acts as liaison with decision makers by providing data-informed strategic direction, and as a liaison with subject matter experts to obtain data sets and set expectations
• Serving as the technical leader for all data tools for Mission Assurance
• Building trust and working with Mission Assurance customers to understand organizational decision needs and relevant business questions
• Identifies, communicates, and quantifies opportunities for leveraging analytics solutions and applying data analytics
• Coordinating projects on classified programs
• Upgrading and maintaining data infrastructure
• Manage budget and people management
• Project management/portfolio management
• Demonstrate experience using analytics to inform business decisions
• Demonstrate leadership skills in an analytics capacity as a project lead or people manager
• Ability to extract and manipulate data from databases (e.g., SQL)
• Ability to use statistical programming languages (e.g., R, Python)
• Proficient in data visualization using Tableau or similar visualization tool
• Collaborating on projects with multiple teams, managing relationships, and communicating findings to audiences
• Experience working with MES and SAP data
• Establish best practices for data analytics execution