Senior Principal Data Scientist 19060
Northrop Grumman · Roy, UT
$108,200–$162,400from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Roy, UT
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering and analytics role supporting a defense program, focused on building and maintaining data pipelines from authoritative sources, managing SQL databases, and developing ETL processes. The work also involves creating Tableau dashboards and applying data science methods to generate program-level insights. Suited to an experienced data professional comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholders within an agile environment, with an active Secret clearance.
Senior level · 8+ years · Ogden-Clearfield, UT · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $102,393 (middle half $74,902–$126,563). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role has two possible locations: Roy, Utah (Ogden-Clearfield CBSA) and Manhattan Beach, California (Los Angeles CBSA). Roy, UT is listed first and is the primary location for the Sentinel program; the LA metro is an equally valid work site.
The title is 'Senior Principal Data Scientist' — Northrop Grumman uses 'Senior Principal' as an internal level above Senior. The advertised seniority is mapped to Principal (the closest standard band), while the actual requirements (8 years with a bachelor's, data pipeline/engineering focus) support a Senior classification.
The role is heavily data-engineering in practice (building and maintaining data pipelines, ETL, SQL databases, Tableau dashboards), which makes 15-1243 Database Architects a plausible runner-up, but the title and the explicit call for data science methods and KPI analytics tip the primary classification to 15-2051 Data Scientists.
Tableau appears in both the Basic Qualifications (implicitly, via 'Develop and publish Tableau server dashboards') and explicitly under Preferred Qualifications ('Strong experience in publishing, maintaining, and managing Tableau reports on Tableau Server'). Because the only explicit section placement is Preferred, it is marked as preferred here.
The degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly accepts '4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree,' making a formal degree non-mandatory.
An active DoD Secret clearance is a hard gate at time of application; the ability to obtain SAP approval is an additional condition but is not itself a higher clearance level.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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