Sentinel Principal/ Sr Principal Systems Software Analyst - 18797
Northrop Grumman · Roy, UT
$98,400–$184,200from the description
Jun 28, 2026
Roy, UT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a Digital Business Enablement team, acting as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and enterprise applications. Day-to-day work involves governing service levels, managing SLAs and OLAs, maintaining operational documentation such as run-books and SOPs, overseeing capacity planning, and coordinating with vendors and supply-chain teams. It suits an experienced systems or applications professional comfortable bridging technical and business functions in a defense environment requiring a Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ 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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Why we read it this way (8)
This posting covers two levels simultaneously: Principal Systems Software Analyst (T03, ~5 years with a Bachelor's) and Sr. Principal Systems Software Analyst (T04, ~8 years with a Bachelor's). The minimum experience gate of 5 years is used for the overall years minimum; the Sr. Principal gate is 8 years. The salary ranges are also dual: $98,400–$147,600 (T03) and $122,800–$184,200 (T04), so the reported range spans both levels.
The role is titled 'Principal/Sr. Principal' but the actual work — serving as a Business Application Service Owner bridging business and IT, managing SLAs/OLAs, run-books, and application portfolios — maps most closely to a Senior-level systems analyst scope rather than a Staff or Principal engineer with org-wide technical authority.
An active DoD Secret clearance (reinvestigated within the last 6 years) is a hard gate. US Citizenship and the ability to obtain SAP access are also required; active SAP access is listed as a preferred qualification.
A Bachelor's degree is referenced but the JD explicitly accepts '4 additional years in lieu of a degree,' so no minimum degree is hard-required.
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD toolchains, Power BI/Tableau dashboards, ITIL/COBIT certification, and Security+ (IAT Level II) all appear under Preferred Qualifications only.
The core required skills are largely process/methodology-based (SLA/OLA management, incident management, capacity planning, run-book authorship, stakeholder liaison) rather than specific named technologies, so the skills list is intentionally lean on named tools.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): SLA/OLA management, incident management, capacity planning.
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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