The Director of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an integral member of the digital transformation team within Enterprise Shared Services who oversees strategic planning, architecture, and engineering of the organizations IT operations. Key initiatives include defining and driving the company's data architecture strategy, developing enterprise roadmaps, supporting digital transformation initiatives, and business technology roadmap management. The Director of EA shall collaborate with other functional leads to establish an effective information architecture across all enterprise IT platforms and provide primary input to the IT governance process. This function is responsible for managing design/build for multiple technical platforms including: Data Center/Cloud, Desktop, Network, Application Services, Enterprise Architecture, IT Security, and Process Management across the IT function. This function will optimize the application of IT investments through the design of effective solutions for implementation and develop implementation plans and will work with critical vendors to develop cross-platform solutions. The Director of EA will lead system engineering and architecture processes, including establishing design inputs and designs using various system requirement methodologies ensuring functional processes are relevant to the business and optimize as needed, ensuring functional process are integrated and standardized, and for ensuring functional processes meet applicable compliance and assessment standards. The Director of EA is responsible for ensuring that the business and technology are in alignment by linking business mission, strategy, and processes of BAE Systems to IT technology strategy. The candidate will foster a community of architects versed in the TOGAF open group architecture framework to align technology strategy with business goals. The candidate is responsible for ensuring designs are compliant with DFARS and CMMC controls across enterprise IT and providing guidance to sector managed systems.