Enterprise Chief Engineer

Torch Technologies, Inc.; Eglin Air Force Base (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP participation

401(k) match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Torch Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced Enterprise Chief Engineer to serve as the senior technical advisor and architectural authority for enterprise IT capabilities. You will lead technical vision, standards, governance, and risk management across a complex enterprise portfolio.

This onsite role at Eglin AFB, FL requires a Secret clearance and strong cross-functional leadership. The successful candidate will develop roadmaps, enforce standards, chair governance forums, and translate

Qualifications

• Requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or related technical field.
• Active Secret Security Clearance required; experience with enterprise IT governance and architecture is essential.
• Experience leading architecture review boards, design reviews, and change-control processes.
• Strong communication skills to brief executives and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to develop roadmaps, standards, and modernization strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise engineering standards, architecture integration, and risk management.
• Develop and maintain multi-year technical roadmaps aligned to mission objectives.
• Chair or lead ERBs, design reviews, and governance forums.
• Ensure architectures meet cybersecurity, interoperability, and standards.
• Translate mission requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions.
• Provide strategic technical advice and executive-level briefings.

Skills

Strong written and verbalcommunication

Executive communication

Leadership in cross-functional teams

Security clearance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or related technical field

Master’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or related technical field

Job description

Torch Technologies Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us! Torch Technologies is seeking an experienced Enterprise Chief Engineer to serve as the senior technical advisor and architectural authority for enterprise information technology capabilities.

The Enterprise Chief Engineer will lead technical vision, engineering standards, architecture governance, integration, and technical risk management across a complex enterprise portfolio. This role requires a strategic, hands‑on technical leader who can ensure delivered systems, applications, networks, cloud environments, and IT services are modern, secure, scalable, resilient, and architecturally coherent. The successful candidate will work closely with enterprise IT leadership, program managers, section chiefs, mission partners, developers, network operations teams, cybersecurity personnel, and system owners to align technical delivery with long‑term mission objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, and Technical Integration - Serve as the Enterprise Chief Engineer and principal technical advisor for enterprise engineering standards, architecture, integration, and technical risk.
• Develop and maintain three- to five-year technical modernization roadmaps and architecture-evolution plans aligned to enterprise mission objectives, growth requirements, and technology priorities.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce enterprise engineering standards, architectural principles, design patterns, and technical baselines.
• Chair or lead Engineering Review Boards (ERBs), design reviews, and technical governance forums.
• Review, assess, and adjudicate proposed architectures, technical designs, engineering approaches, and major technology changes.
• Ensure systems, networks, applications, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise services comply with approved architecture principles, cybersecurity requirements, interoperability needs, and engineering standards.
• Translate emerging science and engineering mission requirements and operational needs into viable, secure, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions.
• Lead enterprise-level configuration control activities, including management of architectural baselines, technical dependencies, and change‑control processes.
• Serve as the final technical authority for complex engineering decisions, technical disputes, integration challenges, and multi‑disciplinary design tradeoffs.
• Identify, assess, track, and mitigate enterprise technical risks, vulnerabilities, dependencies, capacity constraints, and architectural single points of failure.
• Provide technical direction to improve system resiliency, availability, maintainability, performance, and lifecycle sustainability.
• Strategic Engineering Operations and Mission Integration - Provide enterprise leadership, section chiefs, program managers, and mission partners with strategic technical advice, architectural analysis, technology forecasting, and capacity‑planning recommendations.
• Deliver executive‑level technical briefings, architectural health assessments, readiness analyses, and data‑driven risk reports.
• Develop clear decision‑quality products that communicate technical status, risks, options, dependencies, and recommended courses of action to senior stakeholders.
• Partner with development teams, network operations, cybersecurity organizations, cloud engineers, system owners, and mission stakeholders to ensure seamless enterprise integration.
• Guide engineering teams in applying agile methods and enterprise tools to deliver architectural changes securely, efficiently, and with minimal operational friction.
• Monitor the technical health of the enterprise portfolio and recommend investments, modernization priorities, and corrective actions.
• Promote a culture of disciplined engineering, technical rigor, innovation, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Support planning, prioritization, and sequencing of enterprise engineering initiatives to balance mission needs, technical debt, cybersecurity requirements, resources, and operational constraints.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a related technical field.
• Professional certifications relevant to enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, systems engineering, cybersecurity, program management, or agile delivery such as CISSP, CISM, or GSLC certifications or equivalent Extensive experience leading enterprise architecture, systems engineering, technical integration, or engineering governance activities within complex IT environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps, reference architectures, engineering standards, and modernization strategies.
• Experience leading architecture review boards, design reviews, configuration‑control processes, or comparable technical governance forums.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise IT domains, including infrastructure, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, applications, data, systems integration, and service delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technical tradeoffs involving security, scalability, performance, resiliency, cost, schedule, and mission impact.
• Experience identifying and managing enterprise‑level technical risks, dependencies, vulnerabilities, and architectural deficiencies.
• Proven ability to communicate technical concepts, risks, and recommendations effectively to executive‑level and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross‑functional technical teams in a complex, mission‑focused environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, briefing, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Ability to meet applicable customer access, security, and onsite‑work requirements.
• Active Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a related technical field.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense, federal, defense, intelligence, research and development, or other mission‑critical enterprise IT environments.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, zero trust, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, containerization, platform engineering, data platforms, or enterprise service management.
• Experience integrating research and development capabilities into operational enterprise environments.
• Experience developing technical performance measures, architectural health metrics, capacity models, and executive risk reporting.
• Familiarity with agile engineering practices and enterprise collaboration, portfolio‑management, configuration‑management, and architecture‑modeling tools.

Key Competencies

• Enterprise architecture and systems engineering
• Technical governance and engineering standards
• Strategic technology planning and modernization
• Cloud, network, application, and infrastructure integration
• Cybersecurity and secure‑by‑design principles
• Configuration management and change control
• Technical risk management and resiliency engineering
• Executive communication and technical briefing
• Cross‑functional leadership and stakeholder engagement
• Agile architecture and enterprise delivery practices

Schedule: (M-F; 8-5)

Work Location: (onsite – Eglin AFB, FL)

Travel: (10%)

Benefits

• ESOP participation, 401(k) match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts, EAP, education assistance, paid time off, and holidays.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Thank you for your interest in Torch Technologies.

Torch Technologies is dedicated to providing superior research, development, and engineering services to the Department of Defense. As defense contractors, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. From the CEO's desk... When Bill Roark and Don Holder founded Torch in 2002, they knew that employees were the company's greatest asset. They believed that offering employees a stake in the outcome, by making them all owners, was critical to building a successful organization. I share that feeling. Bill and Don's original intent was fully achieved in 2011 when Torch converted to a 100 percent S‑Corp ESOP. Since that time, the company has grown over ten‑fold and gained national recognition for the success we have demonstrated as an employee‑owned company. Today, Torch continues to respect the individual contributions of our employee‑owners and to share the rewards of our success. In addition, we continue to foster an environment of employee recognition, respect, development, and comradery while striving to achieve a healthy work‑life balance. We recognize that core to our company is a culture of trust with our employees, customers, business partners, and community. Our management team is committed to continue to earn that trust. This past year, Torch proudly announced that we were Certified Evergreen™. A timely achievement for Torch employee‑owners as they will celebrate Torch’s 20th anniversary this October, becoming Certified Evergreen™ signifies that Torch employee‑owners can look back on Torch’s past with pride, Torch is also looking forward. Becoming Certified Evergreen™ means that Torch has committed to finding ways to make 100 percent employee ownership sustainable so that Torch will remain a private company forever. Going forward, Torch will continue to evolve to address market and technology changes in order to become a major provider of cost‑effective technical services and solutions to the Warfighter. We are making significant investments into facilities, equipment, business systems, and research to enable us to provide innovations and timely business services to our clients. We feel that always looking to improve our service is key to sustaining customer trust in the future. Likewise, we believe that continuing to share ownership is one of the ways we maintain employee trust and an unparalleled commitment to succeed. Combined, these timeless principles form the basis of the Torch culture. A culture that we are committed to continue and strive to pass on to the next generation of employee‑owners as an Evergreen Company.