Enterprise Architect - and Solutions, Hybrid TX or AZ

Sr. Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy - P5

Hybrid Role in Tucson, AZ or Mckinney TX

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

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.

What You Will Do:

• 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, to ensure 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.

What you will Learn:

• Practice architecting end-to-end solutions and applying formal architecture processes in a collaborative, supportive, and accelerated environment from peers in all domains—infrastructure, AI, data, and applications
• Best practices across Raytheon and RTX to ensure ongoing awareness of objectives, strategies, and solutions across our entire company.
• How to create reusable building blocks and reference architectures that can be instantiated quickly.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years' 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, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience working as an Architect within agile frameworks, methodologies, and tools, such as Scrum, SAFe, Toyota Production System, etc.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Executive presence, strong oral and written communication.
• Excellent time and resource management, planning, and project execution skills.
• Strong critical thinking skills, ability to exercise independent judgment and manage complexity and ambiguity.
• Experience leading or working with virtual and…