Business Capability Architect - Mission Focused
About The Position
Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Computer Systems Architect to serve as the Business Capability Architect - Mission Focused. This capability-aligned architecture role sits within Strategy and Architecture in the Governance & Strategy organization of the Chief Information & Digital Office. It spans organizational boundaries, solution portfolios, and enabling functions rather than focusing on a single project or system. The architect owns the current-state and target-state architecture for an enterprise mission-focused capability portfolio spanning Product Development, Product Support, and Manufacturing Management. The role guides capability evolution across engineering and product-development workflows, sustainment and support processes, manufacturing-management operations, and the data, platforms, and integration patterns needed to connect these domains into a coherent capability roadmap. The position is available as a virtual telecommuter, but the incumbent must be within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for ad hoc onsite meetings. Travel is 10% of the time. Relocation assistance is not available. No clearance is required to start; the candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance as a condition of continued employment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree and 10 or more years; or a Ph.D. and 8 or more 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, product lifecycle environments, engineering or manufacturing ecosystems, sustainment or support 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, products, or services.
- Strong stakeholder-management and influence skills across business, engineering, operations, and technology organizations.
- Ability to act as both strategist and practical architectural guide for a capability area spanning multiple related business capabilities.
- Experience in regulated, security-conscious, or compliance-driven environments.
- Knowledge of TOGAF ADM or other architecture frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of the Aerospace and Defense business domain.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in enterprise, business, domain, or capability architecture roles.
- Experience supporting product development, engineering data management, sustainment, service or logistics support, manufacturing operations, production planning, or related mission-oriented processes.
- 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 end-to-end mission outcomes.
- Experience working with matrixed stakeholders across engineering, operations, cybersecurity, applications, infrastructure, and analytics functions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Business Capability Architect for the combined mission-focused capability portfolio spanning Product Development, Product Support, and Manufacturing Management.
- Define and maintain current-state and target-state architecture for supported mission-focused capabilities across the enterprise.
- Develop capability roadmaps spanning systems, services, products, and initiatives that support engineering, manufacturing, sustainment, and support 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 engineering, product-data, support, manufacturing, and operational technology-adjacent landscapes.
- Guide solution and delivery teams so initiatives advance a coherent target state rather than optimize locally.
- Partner with stakeholders across Governance & Strategy, Enterprise Applications, the Office of the Chief Engineer, manufacturing and operations, IT Infrastructure & Operations, CISO & Global Cybersecurity, Insights & Intelligence, and other relevant functions.
- Support enterprise decision-making by clarifying capability outcomes, process implications, data dependencies, integration needs, and operating-model impacts tied to modernization.
- Escalate enterprise-level standards conflicts, investment trade-offs, and cross-capability issues to the Business Architecture Lead and Head of Strategy & Architecture as appropriate.
- Contribute patterns, lessons learned, and roadmap updates to the broader architecture practice.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Learning opportunities
- Friendly team environment
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
- 401(k) matching program
- 9/80 work schedule option
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus, depending on position
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
