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Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman
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Northrop Grumman is a global aerospace and defense company developing technologies for air, cyber, land, sea and space missions. Its work includes military and satellite communications, microelectronics manufacturing and other advanced systems designed to address complex challenges across the defense sector. The company supports careers for professionals at different stages, including veterans and entry-level candidates, while also pursuing sustainability initiatives.
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Enterprise Business Architecture Lead

Lead Northrop Grumman’s enterprise business architecture, shaping capability models, transformation priorities, and architecture decisions. Align business and technology direction in support of aerospace and defense missions.

USUnited States
$133,200 – $199,800 / year
HybridFull-timeSeniorEnglish RequiredArchitect

Description

  • Oversee the business architecture function within the Strategy and Architecture team in Governance & Strategy.
  • Connect enterprise strategy, operating models, capabilities, processes, and transformation priorities to architecture direction and investment decisions.
  • Lead the enterprise business architecture organization, reporting to the Head of Strategy and Architecture.
  • Manage business capability architects and assigned staff, setting clear objectives and direction.
  • Set business architecture methods, deliverables, operating rhythms, and work priorities.
  • Turn enterprise strategy and operating model needs into architecture direction, capability frameworks, and transformation priorities.
  • Work with technical architecture leaders, strategy stakeholders, and business leaders to align priorities, architecture decisions, and business outcomes.
  • Own the end-to-end Enterprise Business Capability Model.
  • Lead business architecture work across the Strategy and Architecture function.
  • Assign work, set objectives, and ensure teams deliver against agreed priorities.
  • Maintain the practice’s approaches to capability framing and process context.
  • Translate business priorities into architecture frameworks, capability roadmaps, and target-state decision support.
  • Guide capability breakdown, process architecture analysis, cross-capability dependency mapping, and business impact assessment.
  • Lead and mentor architecture staff focused on mission, enterprise, and IT management needs.
  • Partner with the Enterprise Technical Architecture Lead and peer leaders to align business direction with application, data, technology, and security architecture priorities.
  • Help executives and stakeholders make decisions by clarifying business outcomes, organizational impacts, capability dependencies, and transformation sequencing.
  • Establish repeatable operating rhythms, governance inputs, and reporting for business architecture.
  • Communicate with executives and provide leadership visibility into business architecture priorities, trade-offs, and transformation impacts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, or a related field plus 9 or more years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 7 or more years, or a PhD plus 4 or more years.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance as a condition of continued employment.
  • Experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, operating model design, business process analysis, or strategy-to-technology alignment.
  • Experience leading teams or managing a functional group responsible for business analysis, business architecture, transformation planning, or related enterprise initiatives.
  • Ability to connect business priorities, process change, capability design, and architecture direction.
  • Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills across business and technology teams.
  • Experience shaping enterprise roadmaps, business transformation priorities, or cross-functional trade-off decisions.
  • Knowledge of TOGAF ADM or other architecture frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of the aerospace and defense business domain.
  • Experience incorporating business architecture into governance boards and investment planning cycles.
  • Preferred: experience leading business architecture, enterprise transformation, operating model, or strategic planning initiatives in a large organization.
  • Preferred: experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or other regulated environments.
  • Preferred: experience with capability modeling, process architecture or modeling, business operating model design, or business transformation governance.
  • Preferred: experience in strategy, governance, chief of staff, or enterprise planning functions.
  • Preferred: strong executive communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience managing exempt professionals or architect and analyst teams in a matrixed organization.
  • Must live within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for occasional onsite meetings.
  • U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring a government clearance.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Learning opportunities
  • Exposure to a broad range of projects and customers
  • Supportive team environment
  • Comprehensive benefits and healthcare
  • Health insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company-paid holidays
  • Paid time off for vacation or personal business
  • Optional 9/80 work schedule
  • 401(k) matching
  • Potential eligibility for overtime
  • Potential eligibility for shift differential
  • Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus
  • Potential eligibility for long-term incentives for Vice President or Director roles

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