Software Agile Product Owner Level 3 or 4 (AHT) at Northrop Grumman
Aurora, CO
$114,000–$213,400from the description
Aug 11, 2026
Aurora, CO
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Product Owner role on a national-security space program at Northrop Grumman's Aurora, CO site, suited to a technically grounded candidate who has transitioned — or wants to transition — from Java software development into team leadership. Day-to-day work involves guiding agile scrum teams, managing backlogs in Jira, and supporting proposal and basis-of-estimate writing, with a longer-term path toward senior technical leadership or program management.
Senior level · 5+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $164,050 (middle half $109,925–$164,050). 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 Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting covers two levels: Principal (Level 3, $114K–$171K, requiring 5+ years with a BS or 3+ with an MS) and Sr. Principal (Level 4, $142K–$213K, requiring 8+ years with a BS or 5+ with an MS). The salary range and the overall years minimum reflect the lower (Principal) level as the floor.
A Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is a hard gate at application time; the program will subsequently sponsor a SAP/Special Access. A CI Polygraph is mentioned as a future requirement but not required to start.
This is primarily a Product Owner / agile team leadership role, not a hands-on software development role. The Java development background is a required prerequisite, not the day-to-day work. SOC 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used because the primary function — Product Owner — does not map cleanly to any single standard SOC; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the runner-up given the strong technical framing.
The role is described as mostly on-site in Aurora, CO, with an experimental every-other-Friday WFH option for non-classified work only — not a remote role.
Degree requirement is set to None because the posting explicitly accepts equivalent years of experience in lieu of a degree at both levels.
Proposal writing and basis-of-estimate (BOE) experience are listed as required qualifications but name no specific tool or technology, so they are not captured as skills per extraction rules.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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