Enterprise Chief Engineer

Torch Technologies Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country.

Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies is seeking an experienced Enterprise Chief Engineer to serve as the senior technical advisor and architectural authority for enterprise information technology capabilities. The Enterprise Chief Engineer will lead technical vision, engineering standards, architecture governance, integration, and technical risk management across a complex enterprise portfolio.

This role requires a strategic, hands-on technical leader who can ensure delivered systems, applications, networks, cloud environments, and IT services are modern, secure, scalable, resilient, and architecturally coherent. The successful candidate will work closely with enterprise IT leadership, program managers, section chiefs, mission partners, developers, network operations teams, cybersecurity personnel, and system owners to align technical delivery with long-term mission objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, and Technical Integration
- Serve as the Enterprise Chief Engineer and principal technical advisor for enterprise engineering standards, architecture, integration, and technical risk.

- Develop and maintain three- to five-year technical modernization roadmaps and architecture-evolution plans aligned to enterprise mission objectives, growth requirements, and technology priorities.

- Establish, maintain, and enforce enterprise engineering standards, architectural principles, design patterns, and technical baselines.

- Chair or lead Engineering Review Boards (ERBs), design reviews, and technical governance forums.

- Review, assess, and adjudicate proposed architectures, technical designs, engineering approaches, and major technology changes.

- Ensure systems, networks, applications, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise services comply with approved architecture principles, cybersecurity requirements, interoperability needs, and engineering standards.

- Translate emerging science and engineering mission requirements and operational needs into viable, secure, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions.

- Lead enterprise-level configuration control activities, including management of architectural baselines, technical dependencies, and change-control processes.

- Serve as the final technical authority for complex engineering decisions, technical disputes, integration challenges, and multi-disciplinary design tradeoffs.

- Identify, assess, track, and mitigate enterprise technical risks, vulnerabilities, dependencies, capacity constraints, and architectural single points of failure.

- Provide technical direction to improve system resiliency, availability, maintainability, performance, and lifecycle sustainability.

Strategic Engineering Operations and Mission Integration
- Provide enterprise leadership, section chiefs, program managers, and mission partners with strategic technical advice, architectural analysis, technology forecasting, and capacity-planning recommendations.

- Deliver executive-level technical briefings, architectural health assessments, readiness analyses, and data-driven risk reports.

- Develop clear decision-quality products that communicate technical status, risks, options, dependencies, and recommended courses of action to senior stakeholders.

- Partner with development teams, network operations, cybersecurity organizations, cloud engineers, system owners, and mission stakeholders to ensure seamless enterprise integration.

- Guide engineering teams in applying agile methods and enterprise tools to deliver architectural changes securely, efficiently, and with minimal operational friction.

- Monitor the technical health of the enterprise portfolio and recommend investments, modernization priorities, and corrective actions.

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