Technology Architecture Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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At Northrop Grumman, you will have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Computer Systems Architect to serve as the Technology Architecture Lead to define and guide enterprise technology architecture across the architecture function’s strong core within Strategy and Architecture, part of the Governance & Strategy organization in the Chief Information & Digital Office. This role will serve as the lead for technology architecture direction covering foundational platforms, infrastructure-aligned patterns, integration-enabling technology, environment strategy, technical standards, and modernization guardrails that support the broader business and application landscape.

The Technology Architecture Lead is responsible for helping ensure that local platform, hosting, middleware, infrastructure-adjacent, and foundational technology decisions add up to a coherent enterprise technology posture rather than fragmented or duplicative technical choices. This role is expected to work closely with IT Infrastructure & Operations, the Office of the Chief Engineer, and adjacent delivery organizations to align foundational technology direction with enterprise engineering, infrastructure, and modernization needs.

The successful candidate will:

• define enterprise technology standards, reference patterns, and target-state direction for shared technical capabilities;
• guide technology modernization and platform decisions through an enterprise architecture lens;
• partner with application, data, security, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders to improve interoperability, resilience, reuse, and technical coherence;
• help peer domain leads translate enterprise priorities into practical technology architecture roadmaps and guardrails.

This position will be available as a virtual telecommuter, however, the incumbent most be within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for ad hoc onsite meetings.

• Serve as the Technology Architecture Lead for the enterprise architecture function.
• Define and maintain enterprise technology principles, standards, reference architectures, and target-state patterns for foundational technical capabilities.
• Guide technology architecture decisions related to hosting patterns, platform direction, integration-enabling technologies, shared services, and cross-stack technical guardrails.
• Identify fragmentation, duplication, technical sprawl, interoperability gaps, and modernization opportunities across the enterprise technology landscape.
• Shape enterprise technology roadmaps for foundational platforms and shared technical capabilities in alignment with business, application, data, and security needs.
• Partner with application, data, security, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders to evaluate technical trade-offs and improve long-range coherence in technology decisions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, standards governance, and…