Lead, IT Architecture

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Job Title: Lead, IT Architecture

Job Code: 33794

Job Location: Remote Opportunity

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Solutions Architect will lead the architecture, scalability, and availability of our digital engineering application ecosystem spanning software, systems, electrical, and mechanical engineering disciplines. This role will drive enterprise-scale deployments of "gold tier" engineering applications and enable secure external collaboration and AI capabilities across our engineering tools. This role partners closely with Engineering, IT Operations, Cybersecurity, and Vendor/License Management to deliver resilient, performant, and compliant solutions while advancing Digital Thread and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices across the enterprise.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Architecture & Roadmapping

• Provide technical and architectural guidance to support the portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap owned by the business team. Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, scalability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with portfolio owners to validate feasibility of roadmap initiatives, identify technical dependencies, and define architecture patterns for consolidation, modernization, and integration across engineering disciplines (PLM, ALM, MBSE, CAD/ECAD, requirements, simulation, and DevOps).
• Establish reference architectures and patterns for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments (e.g., Azure/AWS), covering compute, storage, networking, identity, CI/CD, and data flows.
• Drive adoption of Digital Thread principles to ensure seamless connectivity and traceability of data across the product lifecycle from requirements and models to design, simulation, manufacturing, and sustainment.
• Support MBSE enablement by architecting integrations between modeling tools (e.g., Cameo/MagicDraw, Jama) and downstream systems, ensuring model fidelity, version control, and traceability.

Enterprise Scale & High Availability

• Design and implement technical plans to scale enterprise instances of key "gold tier" applications, including capacity planning, clustering, caching, database tuning, and content distribution.
• Architect high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions; implement fault-tolerant designs, backup/restore, active-active/active-passive failover, and resilience testing.
• Enhance operability practices: logging, tracing, metrics, synthetic monitoring, runbooks, and performance baselines.

External Collaboration Enablement

• Create secure external collaboration environments for engineering tools (partners/suppliers/customers), including identity federation (SAML/OIDC), granular authorization, secure data exchange, zero trust network access (ZTNA), and data loss prevention (DLP).
• Define multi-tenant or segregated collaboration models, data lifecycle policies, and export controls compliance (e.g., ITAR/EAR/CUI/NIST).

AI Enablement in Engineering Tools

• Identify high-value AI use cases (e.g., requirements quality checks, model consistency, test generation, code assistants, simulation automation, anomaly detection).
• Design AI integration patterns (in-tool plugins, microservices, API gateways) and govern model selection, prompt safety, responsible AI controls, and data privacy.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations and engineering data governance policies.
• Define and enforce configuration baselines, change control, and environment segregation (dev/test/stage/prod).

Integration & Data Architecture

• Orchestrate integrations among PLM/ALM/MBSE/CAD/ECAD/requirements/dev tools, ERP/MES, and data platforms via APIs, ETL, etc.
• Establish master data and metadata strategies (parts, BOMs, requirements, models, test artifacts), ensuring lineage, versioning, and traceability across the Digital Thread.

Lifecycle Management & Operations

• Drive environment automation and CI/CD pipelines for app upgrades/customizations.
• Collaborate with IT Ops to standardize patching, vulnerability remediation, capacity/usage monitoring, and incident/problem/change management.
• Optimize license usage, hosting costs, and support contracts; perform vendor management and technical due diligence.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Translate engineering/business needs into solution designs; produce architecture diagrams, decision records, and runbooks.
• Lead technical workshops, design reviews, and readiness assessments; provide clear executive-level status on milestones, risks, and mitigations.
• Mentor engineers and admins; promote best practices and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• 8-12+ years in solutions/enterprise architecture or senior engineering roles supporting digital engineering tools across software, systems, electrical, and/or mechanical domains.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Proven experience designing HA/DR architectures and scaling enterprise applications in on-prem and cloud environments.
• Strong grounding in networking, identity, data security, and compliance for engineering data.
• Hands-on IaC/automation and CI/CD experience; proficiency in architecture documentation and stakeholder communication.
• Familiarity with Digital Thread concepts and MBSE methodologies.

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