Staff Enterprise Architect - GM Defense IT
On-siteWarren, Michigan, United States
Job Summary
Lead architect for GM Defense initiatives, including secure environment capabilities, enterprise applications, integrations, and supporting platforms required to meet business and regulatory needs. Define and communicate high-level architecture structures, principles, standards, and decision frameworks that guide technology direction. Partner with stakeholders across cybersecurity, export compliance, information governance, infrastructure, manufacturing, engineering, SAP, and delivery teams to align on architecture direction. Analyze technical trade-offs, validate assumptions, and make recommendations balancing compliance, scalability, resiliency, and speed of delivery. Lead application inventory, classification, current-state disposition, target-state decisioning, and migration-wave planning for in-scope applications. Define enterprise architecture roadmaps, standards, and phased transition plans to reduce Fed Zone / LLC operating friction. Support architecture governance and review processes through target-state views and design artifacts. Drive alignment across internal and external stakeholders in complex environments involving legacy practices and differing risk views.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, systems design, or related senior IT architecture roles
- Experience defining end-to-end architectures for complex enterprise solutions, including application, integration, infrastructure, security, and operational considerations
- Experience establishing architecture direction, standards, guardrails, and technology roadmaps across one or more business or technical domains
- Experience architecting or governing secure or highly controlled environments with strong identity, access, network, data protection, auditability, and compliance requirements
- Experience in regulated or government-contract environments (defense, aerospace, or other regulated industries)
- Knowledge of government cybersecurity and compliance frameworks such as CMMC, DFARS, NIST SP 800-171, or related controls
- Experience leading architecture assessments, target dispositions, transition planning, and remediation sequencing across multiple applications, stakeholders, and domains
- Experience leading architecture work that requires coordination across multiple teams, stakeholders, and domains
- Strong ability to assess trade-offs, define non-functional requirements, and drive architecture decisions in complex environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence decisions, gain alignment, and present recommendations across technical and business audiences
- Ability to work independently with broad decision-making latitude in a fast-paced, complex environment
- U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee)
- Must be available for hybrid work (report to a specific location at least 3 times a week)
Desired Qualifications
- Understanding of government data classifications and handling requirements, including concepts such as CUI, ITAR, EAR, export controls, and classified program sensitivities
- Experience supporting one or more of the following domains: manufacturing, SAP-enabled business processes, supply chain, customer care and aftersales, engineering, or secure collaboration environments
- Experience with cloud, integration, infrastructure, and platform architecture in environments that require strong governance and operational discipline
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