Chief Automation and Digital Solutions Architect

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 a highly experienced Chief Automation and Digital Solutions Architect to serve as the senior technical advisor and chief developer for enterprise automation, digital modernization, and data‑centric solution engineering supporting the Eglin Research Site (ERS). The successful candidate will lead the design, development, integration, and sustainment of secure, scalable, mission‑aligned digital solutions that improve workforce efficiency, data quality, business‑process execution, and operational readiness.

This role requires demonstrated expertise in enterprise database engineering, workflow automation, Microsoft Power Platform development, application architecture, cybersecurity, and technical team leadership within complex United States Air Force (USAF), Department of War (DoW), or comparable enterprise environments.

• Serve as the Chief Developer and senior technical advisor for enterprise automation, digital modernization, data‑centric solution engineering, and associated technical architecture.
• Engage directly with senior leaders, mission owners, functional organizations, and cross‑functional stakeholders to identify operational challenges, gather requirements, and translate needs into actionable data‑driven business solutions.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable digital products, automated workflows, data pipelines, dashboards, applications, and integrated enterprise services.
• Establish and promote technical standards, reusable design patterns, development practices, and governance processes for enterprise automation solutions.
• Independently lead solution discovery, requirements refinement, architecture design, technical execution, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement activities with minimal oversight.
• Assess evolving mission requirements and recommend modernization opportunities that improve usability, efficiency, readiness, resilience, and data‑informed decision‑making.

• Architect, oversee, develop, and sustain advanced enterprise database solutions using Structured Query Language (SQL), relational data‑modeling principles, Microsoft Dataverse, and enterprise data‑assurance practices.
• Design secure and maintainable database schemas, data models, data‑integration patterns, and data‑quality controls.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines that support automated personnel, equipment, workflow‑management, and mission‑support capabilities.
• Ensure data solutions support appropriate data integrity, availability, traceability, access control, and lifecycle‑management requirements.
• Identify database performance, integration, data‑quality, and sustainability issues and develop corrective recommendations.

• Lead enterprise‑scale application and automation development using Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Microsoft Dataverse, Azure services, and RESTful…