Principal Engineer Data
Northrop Grumman
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This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$211,200 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $115k versus about $169k for comparable roles.
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Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company providing systems in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, space, strike, and logistics. Industry: Aerospace & Defense
Northrop Grumman currently has 629 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $117,500–$176,300 across 314 roles with salary data.
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The Engineer Data joins the Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems team to design and develop an ecosystem of interconnected business systems, virtualized data pipelines, and data catalogs. This role involves building scalable ETL processes, optimizing data models for analytics, and implementing robust data quality and monitoring frameworks. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical specifications, create reusable analytics code libraries, and develop visualizations such as Tableau dashboards or PowerBI reports. Key technologies include Python, SQL, Databricks, Oracle databases, Dagster, FastAPI, Azure, SQL Alchemy, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Pillow, OpenCV, and Torchvision. The work focuses on solving complex data integration problems for operational and analytical systems, ensuring compliance with data governance, and performing exploratory analysis on engineering and business data.
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Median $187700 from 41 postings across 21 companies.
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