Director of Architecture & Data (Remote) - AI Governance

GE Aerospace; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 152,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Aerospace seeks a Director of Architecture & Data to lead architecture governance, data fabric delivery, and AI governance across enterprise teams. You will oversee architecture standards, data modeling, and security processes to enable rapid, safe AI-enabled development.

You will coordinate with Data Fabric engineers and senior principals to ensure a unified, scalable data foundation and a governed route from idea to production within a defense-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of professional experience or an Associate’s with 11+ years, or a high school diploma with 13+ years of experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Enterprise Architecture & Data Management or IT.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading technical teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government SECRET security clearance.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Architecture & Data team – enterprise, platform, software, and data architects plus the data engineers and product managers aligned to the Data Fabric.
• Own the team’s performance and development; foster ownership, flow, and continuous improvement; coach problem-solving at the point of work.
• Identify and remove obstacles on behalf of the team, especially where delivery direction and supervisory authority are split across the matrix.
• Own the architecture governance model: reference patterns, standards, the architecture review and decision process, and exception handling.
• Set unified architecture and AI standards, informed by TOGAF/Zachman and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
• Maintain a single enterprise-wide capability map so AI can integrate into existing technology stacks.
• Set the data architecture and modeling standards, organized around the business domains the data serves.
• Deliver the Defense & Systems Data Fabric, coordinating with the Data Fabric Sr Principal TPM.
• Supervise the Data Fabric engineers in a matrixed arrangement, aligning objectives to fabric delivery.
• Ensure the data foundation covers in-scope domains and is trustworthy for downstream analytics and AI use cases.
• Manage four processes (ATG, TRL/CRL, FLIGHT DECK, RMF) as a single reference pattern route.
• Build security and authorization into architecture by default: secure-architecture review feeding ATB and data-classification feeding ATO.

Skills

Team leadership

Architecture governance

AI governance

Data architecture

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

NIST AI RMF

Job description

GE Aerospace seeks a Director of Architecture & Data to lead architecture governance, data fabric delivery, and AI governance across enterprise teams. You will oversee architecture standards, data modeling, and security processes to enable rapid, safe AI-enabled development.

You will coordinate with Data Fabric engineers and senior principals to ensure a unified, scalable data foundation and a governed route from idea to production within a defense-focused environment.