Enterprise Architect - and Solutions, Hybrid TX or AZ

Overview

As a Digital Enterprise Solutions/Applications Architect at Raytheon, you will build and apply Digital Technology Architecture practices across both strategic and tactical activities. This team of senior architects leverages common frameworks, processes, and technology patterns to create trusted, compliant and reusable solutions supporting business and supply chain applications, factory operations, and engineering product development. You will collaborate with peer enterprise and solution architects, stakeholders and leaders across organizations to ensure the operating model and key activities are executed, documented and organized across our Digital team.

You will be accountable for our team cadence, program activities, and extended team collaboration events. You will participate in and contribute to our architecture repository, knowledge base and standard work.

• Guide enterprise transformations and lead contributions to connect, integrate, and modernize applications.
• Create and drive business and enterprise-level technical architecture roadmaps, evolutions, and transitions.
• Use and develop consistent architecture patterns and practices across multiple teams.
• Support application portfolio optimization and modernization through process and system transformations.
• Lead technical and design discussions with business teams and executive stakeholders to align on requirements.
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, and cloud teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Interact with functional and program teams, corporate service teams, and outsourced providers to guide application deployments and system migrations.
• Develop architecture artifacts associated with all phases of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method using Cameo and Archi Mate for formal modeling notations.
• Conduct technology assessments, proof-of-concepts, and pilot projects to validate feasibility and demonstrate value proposition to stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to agile development teams, ensuring the intended architecture is realized and best practices and standards are followed.
• Mentor front-line technical staff to elevate technical abilities and prepare them to step into the role of a solution architect.
• Mature Digital Technology’s architecture practice by partnering with enterprise architects on shared principles, strategies, and implementation techniques.
• Contribute to growing the maturity and capabilities of the architecture and digital teams.
• Advocate for architecture by building key influence relationships and socializing architecture contributions across Raytheon.
• Lead and/or participate in SAFe planning events and ceremonies.
• Mentor and support architecture practices in SAFe.
• Help manage backlog, risks, opportunities, and focus areas to ensure visibility and team prioritization.
• Lead continuous improvement activities to improve productivity and reduce friction in delivering work products.

Practice architecting end-to-end solutions and applying formal architecture processes in a collaborative, supportive, and accelerated environment with peers in infrastructure, AI, data, and applications. Understand how to create reusable building blocks and reference architectures that can be instantiated quickly.

• University Degree or equivalent experience with minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree with minimum 7 years of experience.
• Experience leading and implementing technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience architecting, designing, integrating, and deploying enterprise‑grade applications.
• Experience deploying and hosting applications with AWS or Microsoft Azure cloud providers.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government‑issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Experience working as an Architect within agile frameworks, methodologies, and tools such as Scrum, SAFe, and Toyota Production System.

• Executive presence, strong oral and written communication.
• Excellent time and resource management, planning, and project execution skills.
• Strong critical thinking skills,…