[Hiring] Business Capability Architect - IT Management @Northrop Grumman

Role Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history.

We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions.

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 – IT Management, owning the current- and target-state architecture for IT Management capabilities across the enterprise within the Strategy and Architecture team of the Governance & Strategy organization.

This role is aligned to the target architecture operating model in which the Head of Strategy and Architecture leads within the Chief Information and Digital Office (CIDO). The IT Management Business Capability Architect is responsible for guiding capability evolution across:

• IT planning
• Governance
• Service management
• Operational oversight
• Tooling alignment
• Related management processes

The successful candidate will:

• Own the current-state and target-state architecture for the IT Management capability across organizational and solution boundaries.
• Define capability roadmaps spanning platforms, workflows, data exchanges, operating processes, and modernization initiatives that support IT Management outcomes.
• Partner with business, application, data, technology, security, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders to improve coherence in IT Management decisions.
• Help translate enterprise architecture direction into practical capability priorities, sequencing, and transformation guidance for IT Management outcomes.

This position will be available as a virtual telecommuter; however, the incumbent must be within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for ad hoc onsite meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field and 14+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 12+ years, or a PhD with 10+ years.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret level 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 strategist and practical architectural guide for a capability area.
• Experience in regulated, security-conscious, or compliance-driven environments.
• Knowledge of BIZBOK style capability, Value Streams, org mapping, business process design.
• Working knowledge of TOGAF ADM.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Phenomenal learning opportunities
• Exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers
• Friendly team environment
• Exceptional benefits/healthcare
• 9/80 work schedule option
• Great 401k matching program

Company Description

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.