Senior Finance and Program Management Domain Architect

Boeing•Hazelwood, MO

About The Position

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Finance and Program Management Domain Architect to join the team in Ridley Park, PA; Dallas, TX; Hazelwood, MO; or Renton, WA. This position will report directly to the Executive Director of Finance and Program Management IT Systems and serves as a senior architecture leader across Boeing’s Finance and Program Management domains. This role is a strategic leadership position that provides cross-domain architecture direction, decision support, and portfolio guidance across business-critical capabilities, applications, and modernization efforts supporting Commercial Airlines, Defense & Spaces, Global Services, and Enterprise Business Services Businesses. The Senior Architect will be a technical architectural advisor within IT, helping educate leadership, frame decision options, assess tradeoffs and dependencies, and guide current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture across Finance and Program Management. This position will work closely with senior business and IT counterparts, across finance, program management, supply chain, infrastructure, and enterprise business systems to align architecture direction to business priorities, continuity needs, and long-term modernization goals.

Requirements

10+ years of experience delivering architecture & design solutions, supporting distributed data systems
10+ years of experience using PPM (Project Portfolio Management) and/or ADLM (Application Development Life-cycle Management) tools (i.e. MS Project, Azure DevOps (ADO), JIRA) as part of project implementations
5+ years of experience in searching out and writing principles, reference architectures, roadmaps, design guidelines, best practices in the area of Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Integration or a closely related field
5+ years of experience with experience automating software builds, unit tests, integration tests, deployment, and installations using a DevOps tool chain (Jenkins, Nexus, Artifactory, etc)
5+ years of experience leading teams through software modernization (tools, process, technology)
5+ years of experience with building APIs, understanding how customers use them, and how to structure a business around them
5+ years of experience working in a cross functional environment with all levels in the business from individual contributors to executive leadership

Nice To Haves

Experience leading teams of architects to design and deploy technologies across complex business and technology landscapes leading to the delivery of measurable business value
Experience with Finance and/or Program Management processes, capabilities, and supporting systems
Experience supporting or architecting solutions across Finance and Program Management domains
Experience developing coexistence strategies, phased roadmaps, and transition architectures for legacy-to-modern solution evolution
Experience with application portfolio rationalization and evaluating duplicate or overlapping capabilities across organizations
Experience serving as a trusted technical or architectural advisor to senior leadership
Experience with delivery or architecting transformation to SAP ECC, S/4HANA ERP, Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (EPPM), Analytics Cloud (SAC), Central Finance, Master Production Scheduling (MPS) or other SAP Products

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior IT architecture advisor to the Executive Director of Finance and Program Management Systems, providing cross-domain architectural insight, strategic guidance, and decision support
Partner closely with Finance, program management, supply chain, infrastructure, and enterprise business systems stakeholders to align Process, Applications, Data and Technology direction with business priorities, operating needs, and transformation goals
Lead, advise, and coordinate application architects within the Finance and Program Management IT teams to ensure alignment and consistency with Boeing ASCENT strategic vision for IT
Lead cross-function architecture analysis to support strategic roadmap planning, dependency management, and investment decisions
Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures across Finance and Program Management Segments across Enterprise Architecture Pillars - Business process, Applications, Data and Technology
Create and evolve transition architectures and roadmap options that move fragmented current-state portfolios toward more aligned and supportable future-state SAP and non-SAP centric solutions
Provide architecture leadership across Boeing’s Finance and Program Management portfolios, aligning business capabilities, applications, integrations, data flows, and technology strategies to enterprise priorities
Assess the application landscape to identify solution overlap, technical debt, integration complexity, supportability concerns, business continuity risks, and modernization opportunities
Support application portfolio rationalization by evaluating where capabilities should be sustained, modernized, consolidated, replaced, or newly enabled
Ideate and identify innovation opportunities leveraging emerging AI and Data toolset under the current Finance and Program Management applications portfolio that enable Business and IT productivity and efficiency improvements. Also, enable and govern the execution plan realizing the value
Ensure Finance and Program Management Systems are compliant across multiple sets of regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, ITAR, NIST, Fed-Ramp, CIS and other relevant government regulations and IT standards
Partner with SAP Architecture to support Boeing Business transformation strategy and delivery of Boeing Common core concepts via SAP S/4HANA ERP, SAP Central Finance and Group Reporting, SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (ePPM), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Master Production Scheduling (MPS) utilizing SAP Activate methodology
Help educate leadership on architectural options, business and technical tradeoffs, portfolio risks, dependencies, and sequencing considerations
Establish and communicate architecture principles, integration patterns, design constraints, and solution guardrails aligned to Boeing enterprise architecture direction
Prepare clear architectural recommendations, roadmap options, and executive-ready materials that help leadership evaluate alternatives and make informed decisions
Live and exemplify Boeing Values of Safety & Quality, People Focus, Trust, Ownership, and Innovation