Lead, IT Architecture

About This Role

Lead the architecture, scalability, and availability of L3Harris's digital engineering application ecosystem, focusing on enterprise-scale deployments, secure external collaboration, and AI integration. Drive the advancement of Digital Thread and Model-Based Systems Engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and architectural guidance for portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and requirements
• Collaborate with portfolio owners to validate roadmap feasibility, identify technical dependencies, and define architecture patterns for consolidation, modernization, and integration
• Establish reference architectures and patterns for on-prem, cloud (Azure/AWS), and hybrid deployments, covering compute, storage, networking, identity, CI/CD, and data flows
• Drive adoption of Digital Thread principles to ensure seamless data connectivity and traceability across the product lifecycle
• Support MBSE enablement by architecting integrations between modeling tools and downstream systems, ensuring model fidelity and traceability
• Design and implement technical plans to scale enterprise instances of key applications, including capacity planning, clustering, and database tuning
• Architect high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, implementing fault-tolerant designs and resilience testing
• Create secure external collaboration environments for engineering tools, including identity federation, granular authorization, and data loss prevention
• Identify high-value AI use cases and design AI integration patterns, governing model selection, prompt safety, and data privacy
• Orchestrate integrations among various engineering tools, ERP/MES, and data platforms via APIs and ETL

Requirements

• Minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience (Bachelor's Degree)
• 8-12+ years in solutions/enterprise architecture or senior engineering roles supporting digital engineering tools across software, systems, electrical, and/or mechanical domains

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or 7 years with a Graduate Degree, or 13 years in lieu of a degree. 8-12+ years in solutions/enterprise architecture or senior engineering roles supporting digital engineering tools.

Nice to Have

• 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

Skills

* Required skills