Business Capability Architect - IT Management
About The Position
Northrop Grumman’s Corporate Sector Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO) is seeking a Senior Staff Computer Systems Architect to serve as the Business Capability Architect for IT Management in the Strategy and Architecture team within Governance & Strategy. The role owns the current- and target-state architecture for IT Management capabilities across the enterprise, guiding capability evolution across IT planning, governance, service management, operational oversight, tooling alignment, and related management processes. The goal is to translate enterprise standards into a coherent capability roadmap rather than disconnected local improvements. The architect defines roadmaps spanning platforms, workflows, data exchanges, operating processes, and modernization initiatives. They partner with business and technology stakeholders to improve coherence in IT Management decisions and translate enterprise architecture direction into practical priorities, sequencing, and transformation guidance. The role is available as a virtual telecommuter, but the incumbent must live within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for occasional onsite meetings. Travel is 10% of the time. A Secret clearance is not required to start, but the candidate must be able to obtain and maintain one as a condition of continued employment. Northrop Grumman offers flexible work arrangements, learning opportunities, exposure to varied projects and customers, and a friendly team environment. A 9/80 work schedule option is available. The stated primary salary range is $175,300–$262,900, with offers determined by factors including responsibilities, experience, education, skills, and market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary annual bonus. Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field and 14+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a Master’s degree and 12+ years, or a PhD and 10+ years.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment.
- Strong experience in architecture for business capabilities, enterprise business systems, IT management processes, or complex cross-functional portfolios.
- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and connect target-state design to delivery planning and operational outcomes.
- Experience creating roadmaps, patterns, and architecture guidance across multiple solutions, systems, or services.
- Strong stakeholder-management and influence skills across business and technology organizations.
- Ability to operate 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, value streams, organizational mapping, and business process design.
- Working knowledge of TOGAF ADM.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in enterprise, business, domain, or capability architecture roles.
- Experience supporting IT governance, IT service management, enterprise tooling, operational oversight, infrastructure-related management processes, or shared IT operating functions.
- Experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or similarly regulated environments.
- Experience mentoring delivery architects while maintaining common 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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Business Capability Architect for the IT Management capability.
- Define and maintain current-state and target-state architecture for IT Management across the enterprise.
- Develop capability roadmaps spanning systems, services, products, and initiatives that support IT Management functions.
- Translate enterprise standards, architecture methods, and target-state direction into capability-specific architecture guidance.
- Identify dependencies, sequencing needs, reuse opportunities, and trade-offs across the IT Management portfolio.
- Guide solution and delivery teams so initiatives advance a coherent target state rather than optimize locally.
- Partner with stakeholders across Governance & Strategy, Enterprise Applications, IT Infrastructure & Operations, CISO & Global Cybersecurity, Insights & Intelligence, and other enabling functions as needed.
- Support enterprise decision-making by clarifying capability outcomes, process implications, data dependencies, and operating-model impacts related to IT Management modernization.
- Escalate enterprise-level standards conflicts, investment trade-offs, or cross-capability issues to the Business Architecture Lead and Chief Enterprise Architect as appropriate.
- Contribute patterns, lessons learned, and roadmap updates to the broader architecture practice.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Learning opportunities
- 9/80 work schedule option
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Potential overtime, shift differential, and discretionary annual bonus, depending on the position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
