Software Engineering Manager 1
Northrop Grumman · Bellevue, NE
$114,900–$172,300from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Bellevue, NE
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A management role overseeing scrum teams building and maintaining software products for the US Air Force at an on-site facility in Bellevue, NE. The position is primarily technical (roughly 85%), with the remainder spent on personnel duties such as hiring, performance reviews, and skills development. Suited to someone with a background in full-stack software development who has also led agile teams and is comfortable working within a classified government program environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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Why we read it this way (7)
The posting states the role is 85% technical / 15% functional management, which creates genuine ambiguity between a people-manager SOC (11-3021) and a senior IC developer SOC (15-1252). However, the role carries explicit direct-report responsibilities — staffing, performance reviews, counseling, career development, and headcount of 10–15 engineers — so 11-3021 is the primary classification, with 15-1252 as a close runner-up.
Clearance: the JD states 'Ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance' as a hard gate in Basic Qualifications, and 'Active DoD Top Secret security clearance' as a preferred qualification. The posting header also states 'CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes' with type 'Secret'. Because the header gates on Secret at start and the body gates on the ability to obtain TS, the clearance is classified as TopSecret (the higher stated requirement) — candidates must at minimum be able to obtain it.
Degree requirement: the JD offers a BS + 5 years OR MS + 3 years. A Bachelor's is the minimum formal degree path and no equivalent-experience substitution is offered, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
Total years minimum is set to 5, reflecting the BS + 5 years path (the lower experience threshold of the two degree/experience combinations).
Object-oriented programming and full stack are listed as required in Basic Qualifications but name no specific language or framework; they are retained as skills because the JD explicitly gates on them, though they are more conceptual than tool-specific.
All technology-specific skills (BitBucket, Atlassian/GitLab, Java, Angular, Cesium, SonarQube, Jenkins) appear exclusively under Preferred Qualifications.
Requires a Top 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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