Senior Enterprise Architect

This role is at Spirit Aero Systems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units(“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

The Enterprise Architect (IT) for Corporate Aerospace is a strategic role responsible for defining and governing the enterprise-wide IT landscape. This position acts as the crucial link between business strategy, especially as it relates to complex aerospace engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and flight operations, and the technology solutions that support it. The architect will develop Technical Debt resolution, legacy Application rationalization plans, multi-year IT roadmap, and technical standards to drive digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and ensure system reliability and security across all corporate and mission-critical IT functions.

• Identifying risk, cost, schedule, and support constraints:
  The Jobholder must identify and evaluate these elements in order to inform the Business of options and provide a recommendation.
• Knowledge of software development processes and technical skills:
  
  Solution Architects must know the Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  best practices for guidance in the addition to new and existing technologies.
• Communication with stakeholders such as application and system owners, leadership stakeholders, partners and vendors. The Jobholder must convey technical language to other stakeholders often in non-technical terms.
• Organizational and time management skills in order to ensure
  
  Architecture deliverables are on schedule and complete.
• Broad knowledge of Business systems, applications, hardware and software.
• Understanding of technical processes and how they might map to Business processes.

• 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in Enterprise/Solution/AI Architecture or IT leadership
• 5+ years in AI governance, risk management, algorithmic auditing, or data science compliance
• Experience developing enterprise AI strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks
• Strong Generative AI, ML, Responsible AI, and AI governance knowledge
• Experience with NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP Top 10
• Proven ability to conduct AI threat/risk assessments and make risk-based go/no-go decisions
• Strong AWS and/or Azure architecture experience, including AI/ML services
• Secure architecture knowledge across cloud and on-prem environments
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise ecosystems and ERP, PLM, MES, or cybersecurity platforms
• Ability to assess model training data, explainability, automated decision paths, security, scalability, compliance, and cost
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
• Knowledge of Dev Ops, MLOps, and Dev Sec Ops

• Aerospace experience
• Engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, or flight operations experience
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI platforms, copilots, or enterprise AI implementations
• Enterprise modernization and legacy application rationalization experience
• AWS, Azure, AI, cybersecurity, or Enterprise Architecture certifications
• Data platforms, analytics, or AI-enabled decision support experience

This is a union-represented position.

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