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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Training Systems Architect (Melbourne FL) - **Company:** Northrop Grumman - **Location:** Melbourne, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $152,900.0 - $229,300.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, JIRA, SAP (Applications), Subsystems, Systems Architecture - **Published:** August 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2b28f94aa333ff73 ## About the Role * Must have a Bachelors of Science degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 10 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience * Must have an active US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation). * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs. * Must have experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), * Experience with training systems * Understanding of the training system lifecycle * Experience with aircrew simulator design and development ## Description Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Training Systems Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL. In this role, you will fully utilize your ability to leverage "Systems thinking" - develop, document, and maintain a big picture understanding of how a device fits into the broader system design and supports the customer's expectations of the system. Therefore your responsibility will be to perform system engineering activities for all levels of a total system product, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, and maintenance. Additionally, you will lead the development of use cases and delivery of systems engineering artifacts and will drive the definition of Features and Subsystem Features to be developed by program Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to implement customer-requested capabilities. Throughout, you will need to effectively communicate the system architecture and feature plan to a diverse group of customers, suppliers, leadership, stakeholders, developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users. Essential Functions: * Leads functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software features. * Support Feature Definition, management, analysis, and traceability, to translate customer requirements and CONOPS into Features, and further allocate to lower levels. * Coordinate across ARTs to ensure feature definition meets architecture expectations * Support overall verification planning and system sell off activities * Work on an agile team utilizing Jira to track work progress For this position, we offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. 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