Enterprise Architect (Associate Director) - Digital Connected Factory - Hybrid, Tucson, AZ

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Date Posted: 2026-08-18 Country: United States of America Location: US-AZ-TUCSON-M10 ~ 3360 E Hemisphere Loop ~ BLDG M10 Position Role Type: Hybrid U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1 Enterprise Architect (Associate Director) - Digital Connected Factory Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy - P6 Raytheon Digital Technology - Enterprise Architecture Tucson, AZ - Hybrid Role At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. Raytheon Digital Technology (DT) seeks an experienced technologist as an Enterprise Architect for the Digital Connected Factory expansion and modernization. This senior architect will drive our transformation to use digital automation and AI to orchestrate factory activities. In addition to defining the digital ecosystem, this role will focus on enabling maximum factory uptime and resilient manufacturing flow. You will work across multiple teams to lead integration of digital systems, roadmap, and solution strategy ensuring alignment to factory modernization and capacity growth plans. You will recommend and define functional strategies and plans that directly impact manufacturing outcomes and influence decisions by digital and factory leadership. You’ll partner with Factory Industry 4.0 and Data architects to establish unified architectures for new and modernized factories that align to our Connected Factory vision and collaborate with a team of architects ensure digital systems, applications, and processes come together to support capacity‑growth and uptime-driven performance objectives. This role reports to the director of Enterprise Architecture Solutions and partners with fellows and solution architects across applications, data, AI, operations, Industry 4.0 and cloud teams to ensure cohesive architecture, standards, and execution across programs and sites. What You Will Do Set system‑of‑systems roadmaps: Develop and maintain the system‑of‑systems architecture that supports Digital Factory Orchestration and drives high uptime, predictable flow and real-time operational responsiveness. Ensure capabilities, roadmaps, and interfaces between systems are trusted, aligned, and optimized for production stability and program schedule and outcomes; provide leadership and communicate a unified architecture vision across teams. Work product leadership: Unify and lead work products that deliver the Digital Factory Orchestrator (aligned to RTX's Connected Factory vision), ensuring cohesive integration and iterative delivery with a strong emphasis on minimizing unplanned downtime and reducing production disruptions Align and govern cross‑functional agile teams (applications, data/AI, MES/IIoT, automation/robotics, infrastructure/cloud, security) with consistent architecture patterns and reusable reference implementations that accelerate delivery and reduce risk. Coordinate with architects working end‑to‑end integrations across factory orchestration, SAP ERP & planning, MES/i4.0, enterprise data warehouse/knowledge graph, and material‑movement robotics. Use event‑driven and API‑centric patterns to enable real‑time decision making on the factory floor. Lead discoveries, evaluations, and vendor workshops: Analyze complex, multi‑dimensional problems; assess agentic frameworks, orchestration runtimes, digital thread capabilities, and industrial protocols. Run POCs/pilots to de‑risk scale‑out and codify platform choices with a focus on reliability, resilience and stable factory operations. Communicate with senior executive leadership on matters of strategic importance. Negotiate and influence stakeholders, partners and vendors to adopt architectures, standards, and practices that ensure consistent operational outcomes across sites and programs. Apply Lean principles to identify and eliminate constraints (bottlenecks), reduce waste and improve process stability. deploy digital automation and autonomy where opportunities exist to accelerate flow, quality, throughput and sustain high levels of system availability. Publish formal artifacts to effectively communicate with visual and model-based roadmaps, capability frameworks, logical/physical system and data views, and security models—using TOGAF‑aligned processes and enterprise modeling tools. Promote reuse of patterns and building blocks that strengthen uptime and reduce architectural variability across factories. Embed reliability, security, and compliance: Partner with cloud, networking, and cybersecurity teams to implement observability, zero‑trust principles, and regulated‑industry controls in designs. Hybrid Role located in Tucson, AZ - May require travel to U.S. factory sites, partners, and suppliers for discoveries, workshops, pilots, and deployment planning; typically up to ~20% depending on program needs. Qualifications You Must Have Experience with industrial/manufacturing architectures delivering enterprise‑grade factory solutions (MES, SCADA/ICS, IIoT) in production; familiarity with ISA‑95/Purdue concepts, event‑driven architectures, and API ecosystems. Experience leading other architects and setting architectures for multiple teams working together defining, integrating, and deploying complex system-of-system solutions. Experience with Cloud & on‑prem computing: architecture and delivery on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure, integrated with on‑prem networking/compute/storage in hybrid patterns. Experience in Enterprise architecture thought leadership and executive‑level communication skills—able to brief senior leaders, build consensus, and influence technology transformation and adoption across audiences. The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. Education/Experience: Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years' experience Qualifications We Prefer Experience architecting business critical systems with high-availability and resiliency. Architecture certifications (TOGAF, DoDAF) or applied experience creating architecture models and views (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, SysML) using enterprise modeling tools (e.g., Cameo/Sparx). Experience with industrial communications and IIoT protocols (e.g., MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus) and platforms (Ignition, Kepware, Splunk). Experience with ERP and MRP business planning systems. Expertise with 12‑factor applications, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps; fluency with containers/orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS/Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible). Demonstrated leadership in AI and agentic platforms (e.g., multi‑agent orchestration, LLM/RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, vector search) applied to operations/manufacturing use cases. Strong background across RDBMS and NoSQL; experience designing data products and knowledge graphs that support AI‑driven orchestration. Proven leadership in multi-year transformations, with experience providing financial estimates, planning, scheduling and evaluating and building technology partner relationships. What We Offer Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation. Relocation Eligibility - this role is relocation eligible to our Tucson AZ Location if the selected applicant meets company policy criteria. This role needs to be onsite for part of the work schedule at our Tucson location. Learn More & Apply Now! Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as: Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility. As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote. The salary range for this role is 157,200 USD - 298,800 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window. RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. 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