Senior Enterprise Architect

Overview

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

The Enterprise Architect (IT) for Corporate Aerospace is a strategic role responsible for defining and governing the enterprise-wide IT landscape. This position acts as the crucial link between business strategy, especially as it relates to complex aerospace engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and flight operations, and the technology solutions that support it. The architect will develop Technical Debt resolution, legacy Application rationalization plans, multi-year IT roadmap, and technical standards to drive digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and ensure system reliability and security across all corporate and mission-critical IT functions.

Position Responsibilities:

• Identifying risk, cost, schedule, and support constraints: The Jobholder must identify and evaluate these elements in order to inform the Business of options and provide a recommendation.

• Knowledge of software development processes and technical skills: Solution Architects must know the DevOps and DevSecOps best practices for guidance in the addition to new and existing technologies.

• Communication with stakeholders such as application and system owners, leadership stakeholders, partners and vendors. The Jobholder must convey technical language to other stakeholders often in non-technical terms.

• Organizational and time management skills in order to ensure Architecture deliverables are on schedule and complete.

• Broad knowledge of Business systems, applications, hardware and software.

• Understanding of technical processes and how they might map to Business processes.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in Enterprise/Solution/AI Architecture or IT leadership

• 5+ years in AI governance, risk management, algorithmic auditing, or data science compliance

• Experience developing enterprise AI strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks

• Strong Generative AI, ML, Responsible AI, and AI governance knowledge

• Experience with NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP Top 10

• Proven ability to conduct AI threat/risk assessments and make risk-based go/no-go decisions

• Strong AWS and/or Azure architecture experience, including AI/ML services

• Secure architecture knowledge across cloud and on-prem environments

• Experience integrating AI into enterprise ecosystems and ERP, PLM, MES, or cybersecurity platforms

• Ability to assess model training data, explainability, automated decision paths, security, scalability, compliance, and cost

• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills

• Knowledge of DevOps, MLOps, and DevSecOps

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Aerospace experience

• Engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, or flight operations experience

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI platforms, copilots, or enterprise AI implementations

• Enterprise modernization and legacy application rationalization experience

• AWS, Azure, AI, cybersecurity, or Enterprise Architecture certifications

• Data platforms, analytics, or AI-enabled decision support experience

Union:

This is a union-represented position.

Drug Free Workplace:

We are a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

We strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

We also provide eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: $121,900 - $186,900

Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems, a Boeing Company, and you may be eligible for a State of Kansas aviation tax credit of up to $5,000 per year for up to five years. Click here (https://www.aircapitaloftheworld.com/taxcredits) for more information on the tax credit.