Group Architect

The Group Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the strategic direction of our organization by aligning technology outcomes with business capabilities, investment priorities, and maturity targets. This role involves extensive collaboration with various business groups to provide industry and vendor insights, integrate enterprise-wide technological insights, and support product group strategy. Additionally, the Enterprise Group Architect will be responsible for building future state roadmaps and modernizing the technology ecosystem while maintaining an enterprise-wide view.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Planning:

• Lead the development and execution of strategic business plans that align with the organization’s long-term goals and objectives.
• Facilitate OKR (Objectives and Key Results) problem exploration and solutioning to identify key business challenges and opportunities.

Technology Alignment:

• Ensure that technology outcomes are closely aligned with business capabilities, investment priorities, and maturity targets.
• Collaborate with business leaders to understand their needs and translate them into technological strategies.

Industry and Vendor Insights:

• Provide deep industry and vendor insights to support and influence product group strategies.
• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and competitive advantage.

Enterprise-Wide Integration:

• Integrate enterprise-wide technological insights into strategies that support business group-level priorities.
• Maintain an enterprise-wide view to ensure cohesive and comprehensive technological and business strategies.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing across different business units and technology teams.

Future State Roadmaps and Business Capabilities:

• Build future state roadmaps to guide the organization towards achieving its strategic goals.
• Develop and enhance business capabilities to support growth and operational excellence.

Technology Modernization:

• Drive initiatives to modernize the technology ecosystem, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and aligned with current and future business needs.
• Identify and propose innovative solutions to address complex business problems and improve operational efficiency.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to enhance business capabilities.

Leadership and Mentorship:

• Provide thought leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Mentor and develop junior architects and team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Qualifications The Employee Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field with at least 14 or more years of relevant experience
  • Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
  • Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education
• Extensive experience with enterprise architecture, capability planning, and alignment of IT to corporate and BU strategy
• Strong experience with drafting reference architecture
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating applications
• Vendor management experience
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect, or similar role within a large enterprise.
• Strong understanding of strategic business planning, OKR frameworks, and technology alignment.
• In-depth knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and vendor landscapes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of delivering innovative solutions.
• Experience in leading and mentoring cross-functional teams.

Qualifications we Prefer:

• Experience in Agile development methodology and processes
• Experience in architecting enterprise systems such as PLM, MES, CRM, and ERP
• Conceptualizing and developing abstract representations

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $189,761.74 - $260,922.39. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, such as candidates' key skills, relevant work experience, and education/training/certifications. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.

SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination.  Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.