Director, Enterprise Architecture and Analytics

OVERVIEW OF POSITION:

The Director - Enterprise Architecture & Analytics provides executive leadership for enterprise architecture, business applications, data platforms, and analytics capabilities. This position defines and implements cohesive target architecture aligning technology investments with business strategy, emphasizing business application ecosystems, enterprise data platforms, and analytics and AI capabilities that drive operational visibility and decision making. The Director establishes architectural standards and governance frameworks balancing agility with control, ensuring technology solutions support business growth while maintaining compliance in the aerospace and defense environment. This position requires no security clearance. The Director leads enterprise architecture for core business systems including ERP, PLM, MES, and adjacent operational platforms, ensuring seamless integration across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and delivery functions. This role defines how enterprise data is treated as strategic asset through governance, quality frameworks, and analytics architectures enabling faster decisions. The Director exercises formal delegated authority over major technology decisions including platform selections, integration patterns, data standards, and architectural exceptions. Through close partnership with cybersecurity leadership, the Director ensures architectural decisions support regulatory compliance including ITAR, CMMC, and NIST SP 800 171 requirements. This position collaborates with executive leadership to simplify the technology environment, reduce duplicate applications, improve system reliability, and unlock measurable business value from data and analytics investments.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Governance

• Define and evolve target enterprise architecture vision and multiyear transformation roadmap emphasizing business applications, enterprise data platforms, and analytics and AI capabilities.
• Establish and lead formal architecture governance with delegated authority for major technology investments including platform selections, integration approaches, data standards, and architectural exceptions.
• Develop comprehensive enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, standards, and guidelines ensuring technology consistency, reducing technical debt, and enabling scalability.
• Evaluate major technology decisions, documenting tradeoffs in cost, risk, speed, and maintainability to inform executive decision making.
• Conduct architecture assessments identifying areas for consolidation, modernization, and simplification to reduce complexity and improve efficiency.
• Monitor industry trends including cloud platforms, AI, advanced analytics, and modern integration patterns to identify strategic opportunities.
• Present architecture initiatives, progress reports, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership and board stakeholders with clarity.

Core Business Systems and Operational Architecture

• Define and maintain target state architecture for major business applications including ERP, PLM, MES, and adjacent operational systems.
• Guide business application integration and interoperability across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and delivery functions.
• Partner with functional leaders to ensure technology systems support actual business operational requirements, translating business needs into architectural solutions.
• Oversee business application portfolio rationalization to eliminate duplicate applications, redundant capabilities, and one off solutions creating unnecessary complexity.
• Establish integration standards, patterns, and middleware strategies reducing brittle point to point integrations and improving system reliability.
• Lead architecture planning for major business system implementations, upgrades, and replacements, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Evaluate vendor solutions against architectural standards and business requirements, providing objective assessments and procurement recommendations.

Enterprise Data and Analytics Architecture

• Define enterprise data strategy treating data as strategic asset with clear ownership models, quality expectations, governance frameworks, and architectural standards.
• Lead enterprise data architecture design including data warehouses, data lakes, master data management platforms, and data integration infrastructure.
• Establish data governance frameworks defining stewardship responsibilities, quality metrics, data lineage documentation, and access policies ensuring trusted accessible data.
• Define analytics platform architecture and strategy including business intelligence tools, self service analytics, advanced analytics environments, and AI model deployment infrastructure.
• Lead identification, prioritization, and architectural design of AI and machine learning use cases delivering measurable business value.
• Set standards for data pipelines, ETL processes, analytics tool selection, and AI implementations ensuring scalability, consistency, and maintainability.
• Ensure enterprise data and analytics capabilities enable faster operational decisions and provide actionable insights to business leaders.
• Partner with business intelligence and data science teams to translate analytical requirements into architectural solutions balancing performance, cost, security, and usability.

Integration and Interoperability Leadership

• Establish enterprise integration architecture standards defining how systems exchange data, invoke services, and maintain data consistency.
• Standardize integration patterns including APIs, event driven architectures, messaging middleware, and batch data exchange protocols to improve reliability.
• Reduce brittle point to point integrations by implementing scalable integration platforms centralizing connectivity and simplifying system interdependencies.
• Oversee integration architecture for major business processes spanning multiple systems, ensuring end to end data flow integrity.
• Define data exchange standards including data formats, messaging protocols, error handling approaches, and monitoring requirements for integrations.
• Improve reliability and observability through monitoring, alerting, and logging capabilities proactively identifying and resolving integration failures.

Security and Compliance Architecture

• Design enterprise architecture with regulatory compliance and security requirements as foundational principles, ensuring architectural decisions support compliance obligations.
• Partner with cybersecurity leadership to ensure architecture aligns with ITAR constraints, NIST SP 800 171 security controls, and CMMC certification requirements.
• Incorporate security by design principles into architectural standards, platform selections, and integration patterns, ensuring protection of CUI and FCI.
• Ensure architectural decisions support required security controls including access management, data encryption, network segmentation, audit logging, and incident detection.
• Maintain architectural documentation supporting compliance audits including system boundary definitions, data flow diagrams, integration architectures, and technology stack inventories.
• Evaluate emerging security threats and regulatory changes, assessing architectural impacts and implementing necessary adjustments.

Technology Leadership and Team Development

• Provide strategic thought leadership for enterprise architecture function, fostering innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead, mentor, and develop enterprise architects, solution architects, data architects, and technical professionals, providing guidance and career development.
• Build productive relationships with executive leadership, business unit leaders, IT leadership, and external vendors to drive architectural alignment.
• Facilitate clear communication between IT and business units regarding architectural initiatives, technology strategies, and organizational impacts.
• Champion enterprise architecture awareness and best practices, educating stakeholders on the value of architectural discipline and standardization.
• Manage architecture function budgets and resources, ensuring cost effective utilization of personnel, tools, and consulting services.
• Serve as subject matter expert and trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology strategy, architectural tradeoffs, and business transformation.

SKILLS * EXPERIENCE * EDUCATION:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum twelve (12) years enterprise IT experience, including at least five (5) years in senior architecture leadership roles with responsibility for major programs involving business applications, data platforms, and analytics components.
• Demonstrated track record leading enterprise architecture initiatives in manufacturing or complex operational environments, including experience with core enterprise business systems such as ERP, PLM, or MES.
• Extensive experience building, governing, and evolving enterprise data architectures, data governance frameworks, and analytics platforms enabling data driven decision making.
• Proven expertise in architectural governance including establishing standards, leading architecture review boards, making platform selection decisions, and managing architectural exceptions.
• Practical experience driving technology standardization across multiple teams, vendors, and business units, with sound judgment regarding when exceptions are justified.
• Strong technical knowledge spanning business application architectures, data platforms, integration technologies, cloud computing, analytics tools, and modern software development practices.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business leaders to understand operational requirements and translate them into effective architectural solutions delivering measurable business value.
• Experience in regulated industries with understanding of compliance requirements, security architecture principles, and governance frameworks; aerospace and defense experience strongly preferred.
• Exceptional executive communication skills with ability to explain complex architectural concepts, tradeoffs in cost, risk, and speed, and strategic recommendations to non technical senior leadership.
• Superior collaborative and influencing skills with proven ability to build consensus across diverse stakeholders, drive organizational change, and lead without direct authority.
• Strategic thinking capability balancing long term architectural vision with pragmatic incremental delivery and near term business pressures.
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities with capacity to assess complex technology landscapes, identify simplification opportunities, and develop actionable transformation roadmaps.
• Experience managing architecture teams, developing talent, and building high performing technical organizations.
• Proven project leadership capabilities managing large scale technology initiatives involving multiple workstreams, vendors, and organizational stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.
• Professional architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Zachman Framework, or cloud architecture certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience in aerospace, defense, or government contracting sectors with knowledge of Department of Defense cybersecurity requirements, FAR, DFARS, and ITAR compliance.
• Deep understanding of CMMC and NIST SP 800 171 compliance frameworks as they apply to enterprise architecture and information system design.
• Experience leading digital transformation initiatives or enterprise modernization programs involving legacy system replacement and cloud migration.
• Knowledge of AI and machine learning architectures, model deployment platforms, and responsible AI governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices including DevOps, agile methodologies, CI/CD, and API first design principles.
• Experience with manufacturing specific systems and standards including AS9100 quality management, MRP, APS, or QMS.
• Background in organizational change management, stakeholder engagement strategies, and communication approaches for driving adoption of architectural standards.
• Professional membership in architecture associations or active participation in industry architecture communities.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, or skills required. Employees may be required to perform other job related duties as assigned, consistent with business needs and applicable law.

This position requires no security clearance.

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