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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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Senior Business Capability Architect, IT Management

Shape enterprise architecture and roadmaps for Northrop Grumman’s IT Management capability. Guide secure modernization across complex business and technology organizations.

USUnited States
$175,300 – $262,900 / year
HybridFull-timeSeniorLeadEnglish RequiredArchitect
Cyber SecurityITSM

Description

  • Own architecture for the IT Management capability across organizational and solution boundaries, from current state through target state.
  • Build roadmaps covering platforms, workflows, data exchanges, operating processes, and modernization initiatives.
  • Work with business, application, data, technology, security, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders.
  • Turn enterprise architecture direction into capability priorities, sequencing, and practical transformation guidance.
  • Lead as the Business Capability Architect for IT Management.
  • Define and maintain IT Management architecture across the enterprise.
  • Develop roadmaps across systems, services, products, and initiatives.
  • Apply enterprise standards, architecture methods, and target-state direction to capability-specific guidance.
  • Map dependencies, sequencing, reuse opportunities, and trade-offs across the IT Management portfolio.
  • Align solution and delivery teams around a shared target state.
  • Coordinate with Governance & Strategy, Enterprise Applications, IT Infrastructure & Operations, CISO & Global Cybersecurity, Insights & Intelligence, and other enabling functions.
  • Clarify capability outcomes, process implications, data dependencies, and operating-model impacts to support enterprise decisions.
  • Raise standards conflicts, investment trade-offs, and cross-capability issues with the Business Architecture Lead and Chief Enterprise Architect.
  • Share patterns, lessons learned, and roadmap updates with the broader architecture practice.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field plus 14 or more years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 12 or more years, or a PhD plus 10 or more years.
  • Ability to obtain and retain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment.
  • Substantial architecture experience with business capabilities, enterprise business systems, IT management processes, or complex cross-functional portfolios.
  • Ability to work across organizational boundaries and connect target-state design with delivery planning and operational outcomes.
  • Experience developing roadmaps, patterns, and architecture guidance across multiple solutions, systems, or services.
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across business and technology organizations.
  • Ability to serve as both a strategist and a practical architectural guide for a capability area.
  • Experience in regulated, security-conscious, or compliance-driven environments.
  • Knowledge of BIZBOK-style capability modeling, value streams, organizational mapping, and business process design.
  • Working knowledge of TOGAF ADM.
  • Previous experience in enterprise, business, domain, or capability architecture roles.
  • Experience supporting IT governance, IT service management, enterprise tooling, operational oversight, infrastructure management processes, or shared IT operating functions.
  • Experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or similarly regulated environments.
  • Experience mentoring delivery architects while maintaining shared architecture standards.
  • Ability to connect business capability planning with operational execution, modernization investments, and enterprise service outcomes.
  • Experience working with matrixed stakeholders across strategy, infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, and analytics functions.
  • U.S. citizenship is required for positions involving a government clearance.
  • Must live within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for occasional onsite meetings.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements.
  • Learning opportunities.
  • Exposure to a broad range of projects and customers.
  • Friendly team environment.
  • Health care and other benefits.
  • Life and disability insurance.
  • Savings plan.
  • Company-paid holidays.
  • Paid time off for vacation or personal business.
  • Option to work a 9/80 schedule.
  • 401(k) matching program.
  • Possible overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

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