L3Harris Technologies · 1 day ago
Lead, IT Architecture
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expL3Harris Technologies is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. The Lead, IT Architecture will oversee the architecture, scalability, and availability of digital engineering applications, driving enterprise-scale deployments and ensuring secure collaboration and AI capabilities across engineering tools.
CommercialInformation TechnologyNational Security
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Provide technical and architectural guidance to support the portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap owned by the business team. Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, scalability, security, and compliance requirements
Collaborate with portfolio owners to validate feasibility of roadmap initiatives, identify technical dependencies, and define architecture patterns for consolidation, modernization, and integration across engineering disciplines (PLM, ALM, MBSE, CAD/ECAD, requirements, simulation, and DevOps)
Establish reference architectures and patterns for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments (e.g., Azure/AWS), covering compute, storage, networking, identity, CI/CD, and data flows
Drive adoption of Digital Thread principles to ensure seamless connectivity and traceability of data across the product lifecycle from requirements and models to design, simulation, manufacturing, and sustainment
Support MBSE enablement by architecting integrations between modeling tools (e.g., Cameo/MagicDraw, Jama) and downstream systems, ensuring model fidelity, version control, and traceability
Design and implement technical plans to scale enterprise instances of key “gold tier” applications, including capacity planning, clustering, caching, database tuning, and content distribution
Architect high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions; implement fault-tolerant designs, backup/restore, active-active/active-passive failover, and resilience testing
Enhance operability practices: logging, tracing, metrics, synthetic monitoring, runbooks, and performance baselines
Create secure external collaboration environments for engineering tools (partners/suppliers/customers), including identity federation (SAML/OIDC), granular authorization, secure data exchange, zero trust network access (ZTNA), and data loss prevention (DLP)
Define multi-tenant or segregated collaboration models, data lifecycle policies, and export controls compliance (e.g., ITAR/EAR/CUI/NIST)
Identify high-value AI use cases (e.g., requirements quality checks, model consistency, test generation, code assistants, simulation automation, anomaly detection)
Design AI integration patterns (in-tool plugins, microservices, API gateways) and govern model selection, prompt safety, responsible AI controls, and data privacy
Ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations and engineering data governance policies
Define and enforce configuration baselines, change control, and environment segregation (dev/test/stage/prod)
Orchestrate integrations among PLM/ALM/MBSE/CAD/ECAD/requirements/dev tools, ERP/MES, and data platforms via APIs, ETL, etc
Establish master data and metadata strategies (parts, BOMs, requirements, models, test artifacts), ensuring lineage, versioning, and traceability across the Digital Thread
Drive environment automation and CI/CD pipelines for app upgrades/customizations
Collaborate with IT Ops to standardize patching, vulnerability remediation, capacity/usage monitoring, and incident/problem/change management
Optimize license usage, hosting costs, and support contracts; perform vendor management and technical due diligence
Translate engineering/business needs into solution designs; produce architecture diagrams, decision records, and runbooks
Lead technical workshops, design reviews, and readiness assessments; provide clear executive-level status on milestones, risks, and mitigations
Mentor engineers and admins; promote best practices and knowledge sharing
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience
Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience
In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
8–12+ years in solutions/enterprise architecture or senior engineering roles supporting digital engineering tools across software, systems, electrical, and/or mechanical domains
Preferred
Proven experience designing HA/DR architectures and scaling enterprise applications in on-prem and cloud environments
Strong grounding in networking, identity, data security, and compliance for engineering data
Hands-on IaC/automation and CI/CD experience; proficiency in architecture documentation and stakeholder communication
Familiarity with Digital Thread concepts and MBSE methodologies
Company
L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris Technologies provides platform management system solutions for armed forces.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.25B2024-03-27Post Ipo Debt· $2.25B
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
Tania Hanna
Vice President Government & Customer Relations
Chip Teets
Senior Director, International Programs, Products & Technology
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