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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.The Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization within the Intelligence & Services (I&S) Business Unit delivers mission-critical engineering, integration, and operations solutions for our national security and civil customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable, and reliable capabilities that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the team and help shape how we engineer, integrate, and operate the systems of tomorrow.
SE&I has an opening for a Senior Principal Technical Operations Project Manager in Redondo Beach, CA. The selected candidate will serve as an operational focal point for SE&I leadership and project teams, driving staffing and onboarding activities, team engagement, collaboration tooling, and AI-enabled workflow integration across the organization.
This position is 100% on-site.
Role and Responsibilities:
The selected candidate’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Operational Project Support
- Support the operational aspects of ongoing SE&I projects and initiatives, acting as a liaison between project management, engineering teams, and functional/line management.
- Track and report project and organizational status (technical, schedule, and cost, as appropriate) and support preparation of regular status reports, dashboards, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain mechanisms (e.g., trackers, metrics, dashboards) for monitoring project and organizational health, and drive issue identification, escalation, and resolution with project leads and functional managers.
Staffing & Onboarding
- Coordinate staffing actions for the SE&I organization, including tracking open positions, candidate pipelines, and estimated start dates.
- Plan and execute new-hire onboarding activities, including orientation schedules, training checklists, workspace/tool access, and introductions to key stakeholders and teams.
- Coordinate with security, HR, and program teams to support clearance initiation, processing, and site access for new hires and transfers.
- Own and continuously improve standard onboarding materials, templates, and checklists to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across SE&I.
Team Engagement & Communications
- Plan, coordinate, and execute team engagement activities and events (e.g., all-hands meetings, brown bags, recognition events, offsites, and virtual engagement sessions).
- Support internal communications, including newsletters, announcements, and leadership messages, to foster connection, clarity, and transparency across SE&I.
- Partner with leadership to implement recognition and appreciation activities (awards, shout-outs, spot recognitions) that reinforce desired culture and behaviors.
SharePoint and Confluence Development
- Lead the day-to-day management, structure, and content organization of SE&I collaboration sites (SharePoint, Confluence, and related tools).
- Design and maintain intuitive, user-friendly site architectures, including document libraries, dashboards, and self-service resource areas.
- Work with technical and functional stakeholders to ensure content is accurate, current, and aligned to organizational needs (e.g., processes, templates, FAQs, reference materials).
- Define and implement standards for naming, archiving, and content lifecycle to improve findability, configuration control, and reduction of obsolete content.
AI Tool Integration & Workflow Support
- Coordinate the deployment and integration of AI tools and automation capabilities to support SE&I workflows (e.g., knowledge management, reporting, document generation, meeting support, metrics automation).
- Work with IT, security, and program stakeholders to ensure AI tools are appropriately configured, compliant, and aligned with customer and enterprise requirements.
- Support user onboarding to AI tools, including basic training, use-case documentation, and collection of feedback for continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to streamline SE&I processes through automation and AI-enabled workflows and help define and track associated adoption and performance metrics.
Additional Responsibilities
- Support design review action tracking, follow-through, and closure, ensuring actions are clearly owned, visible, and completed on time.
- Assist with customer and stakeholder visits, including agenda development, logistics coordination, briefing material preparation, and follow-up action tracking.
- Provide coordination and tracking support for proposals and internal investments (e.g., NCTA/IRAD) aligned to SE&I initiatives.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM, business, or related discipline (e.g., Engineering, Project Management, Business, Operations, Information Systems, or similar) with 8 years of related experience in project management, program operations, technical operations, or engineering support; or a Master’s degree with 6 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating complex activities across multiple stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience using collaboration and productivity tools (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) for reporting, content management, and data tracking.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing concise status reports, presentations, and communications for leadership.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions and levels.
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access at the time of application
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active SCI access
- Experience supporting project or program management activities in an engineering, systems integration, or software development environment.
- Hands-on experience administering or building SharePoint and/or Confluence sites, including site structure, permissions, and content lifecycle management.
- Exposure to AI tools or automation platforms (e.g., productivity copilots, knowledge search, workflow automation) in a business or technical setting.
- Familiarity with program management frameworks (e.g., gated reviews, design reviews, PMRs, IPRs) and associated action tracking and documentation.
- Experience designing and executing onboarding and engagement strategies for distributed or matrixed technical teams.
- Basic understanding of systems engineering or engineering development lifecycles and technical review processes.
Primary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00 The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
Description
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.The Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization within the Intelligence & Services (I&S) Business Unit delivers mission-critical engineering, integration, and operations solutions for our national security and civil customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable, and reliable capabilities that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the team and help shape how we engineer, integrate, and operate the systems of tomorrow.
SE&I has an opening for a Senior Principal Technical Operations Project Manager in Redondo Beach, CA. The selected candidate will serve as an operational focal point for SE&I leadership and project teams, driving staffing and onboarding activities, team engagement, collaboration tooling, and AI-enabled workflow integration across the organization.
This position is 100% on-site.
Role and Responsibilities:
The selected candidate’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Operational Project Support
- Support the operational aspects of ongoing SE&I projects and initiatives, acting as a liaison between project management, engineering teams, and functional/line management.
- Track and report project and organizational status (technical, schedule, and cost, as appropriate) and support preparation of regular status reports, dashboards, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain mechanisms (e.g., trackers, metrics, dashboards) for monitoring project and organizational health, and drive issue identification, escalation, and resolution with project leads and functional managers.
Staffing & Onboarding
- Coordinate staffing actions for the SE&I organization, including tracking open positions, candidate pipelines, and estimated start dates.
- Plan and execute new-hire onboarding activities, including orientation schedules, training checklists, workspace/tool access, and introductions to key stakeholders and teams.
- Coordinate with security, HR, and program teams to support clearance initiation, processing, and site access for new hires and transfers.
- Own and continuously improve standard onboarding materials, templates, and checklists to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across SE&I.
Team Engagement & Communications
- Plan, coordinate, and execute team engagement activities and events (e.g., all-hands meetings, brown bags, recognition events, offsites, and virtual engagement sessions).
- Support internal communications, including newsletters, announcements, and leadership messages, to foster connection, clarity, and transparency across SE&I.
- Partner with leadership to implement recognition and appreciation activities (awards, shout-outs, spot recognitions) that reinforce desired culture and behaviors.
SharePoint and Confluence Development
- Lead the day-to-day management, structure, and content organization of SE&I collaboration sites (SharePoint, Confluence, and related tools).
- Design and maintain intuitive, user-friendly site architectures, including document libraries, dashboards, and self-service resource areas.
- Work with technical and functional stakeholders to ensure content is accurate, current, and aligned to organizational needs (e.g., processes, templates, FAQs, reference materials).
- Define and implement standards for naming, archiving, and content lifecycle to improve findability, configuration control, and reduction of obsolete content.
AI Tool Integration & Workflow Support
- Coordinate the deployment and integration of AI tools and automation capabilities to support SE&I workflows (e.g., knowledge management, reporting, document generation, meeting support, metrics automation).
- Work with IT, security, and program stakeholders to ensure AI tools are appropriately configured, compliant, and aligned with customer and enterprise requirements.
- Support user onboarding to AI tools, including basic training, use-case documentation, and collection of feedback for continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to streamline SE&I processes through automation and AI-enabled workflows and help define and track associated adoption and performance metrics.
Additional Responsibilities
- Support design review action tracking, follow-through, and closure, ensuring actions are clearly owned, visible, and completed on time.
- Assist with customer and stakeholder visits, including agenda development, logistics coordination, briefing material preparation, and follow-up action tracking.
- Provide coordination and tracking support for proposals and internal investments (e.g., NCTA/IRAD) aligned to SE&I initiatives.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM, business, or related discipline (e.g., Engineering, Project Management, Business, Operations, Information Systems, or similar) with 8 years of related experience in project management, program operations, technical operations, or engineering support; or a Master’s degree with 6 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating complex activities across multiple stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience using collaboration and productivity tools (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) for reporting, content management, and data tracking.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing concise status reports, presentations, and communications for leadership.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions and levels.
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access at the time of application
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active SCI access
- Experience supporting project or program management activities in an engineering, systems integration, or software development environment.
- Hands-on experience administering or building SharePoint and/or Confluence sites, including site structure, permissions, and content lifecycle management.
- Exposure to AI tools or automation platforms (e.g., productivity copilots, knowledge search, workflow automation) in a business or technical setting.
- Familiarity with program management frameworks (e.g., gated reviews, design reviews, PMRs, IPRs) and associated action tracking and documentation.
- Experience designing and executing onboarding and engagement strategies for distributed or matrixed technical teams.
- Basic understanding of systems engineering or engineering development lifecycles and technical review processes.
Primary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00 The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal technical project manager jobs.
- 8 or more years of technical project or program management experience in a software or systems environment
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale, cross-functional engineering programs from initiation through delivery
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or comparable platforms
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program management certification preferred or required
- Experience working with agile and waterfall delivery frameworks in complex technical organizations
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Principal Technical Project Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to program scope
Principal-level roles expect you to show budget ownership, cross-org dependencies, and delivery at scale. Quantify the size of programs you led, the number of engineering teams involved, and the complexity of the technical systems you coordinated.
Highlight your technical depth clearly
Many hiring managers screen for candidates who can engage engineers without needing translation. Call out the specific tech stacks, architectures, or infrastructure domains you've worked in, not just the methodologies you followed.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal technical project manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Read the job level requirements carefully
Principal roles often require demonstrated influence without direct authority, so look for language about leading staff engineers, driving org-wide initiatives, or setting delivery standards. If the posting describes execution only, it may be scoped below principal.
Prepare a system design story for interviews
Expect interviewers to probe how you've handled technical ambiguity at scale. Practice walking through a situation where you had to align architects, engineers, and product stakeholders on a constrained timeline without having direct decision-making authority.
Negotiate scope and reporting structure
At the principal level, the role's actual influence depends heavily on where it sits in the org. Before accepting, clarify whether you report to engineering leadership or a PMO, and what authority you have over roadmap sequencing and resource allocation.
Principal Technical Project Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal technical project managers?
The companies hiring the most principal technical project managers right now include Amazon, Amtrak, and Northrop Grumman, with the largest share of openings in New York, California, and Maryland, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to be highest at large technology firms, financial services companies, and defense contractors running multi-team engineering programs.
How many principal technical project manager jobs are remote?
About 14% of principal technical project manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the seniority and cross-functional nature of the role. Infrastructure program management and enterprise software delivery tend to have the highest remote availability, while hardware, defense, and on-site system integration programs are more likely to require in-person presence.
How do you become a principal technical project manager?
Start by building a foundation in software engineering, systems, or a related technical field, then move into project coordination or program management roles where you own delivery end to end. Progress through senior and staff-level program management positions, taking on larger cross-functional programs with higher technical complexity. Earning a PMP or PgMP certification strengthens your candidacy, and demonstrating the ability to influence engineering direction without direct authority is what separates principal-level candidates from senior ones.
Can I get a principal technical project manager role with limited experience?
Moving directly into a principal role with limited experience is rare because the title signals deep technical judgment and organizational influence. The most practical path is to target senior technical program manager roles first, build a record of leading large engineering programs, and document the moments where you shaped technical direction or resolved cross-team delivery conflicts at scale before making the step up.
What does the principal technical project manager interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on program complexity and scope, and multiple rounds with engineering leads and cross-functional stakeholders. Expect at least one behavioral deep-dive on how you've handled ambiguity, competing priorities, or org-level escalations. Some companies add a case study or program design exercise where you outline how you'd structure delivery for a complex technical initiative from scratch.
Where can I find and apply to principal technical project manager jobs?
You can find and apply to principal technical project manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your technical background and program management experience, then apply directly to each listing that fits your skills and target industry.
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