Head of Architecture & Data Strategy

GE Aerospace; Shawnee (OK); Remote; USD 152,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

GE Aerospace seeks a Director of Architecture & Data to lead a cross-disciplinary team that defines guardrails, builds a data fabric, and enables AI-native integration across defense software environments.

The role balances cutting-edge technology with safety, compliance, and enterprise governance. You will orchestrate architecture standards, data modeling, and RMF-coupled security across multiple teams while ensuring fast, coherent delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of professional experience, OR Associate with 11+ years, OR High School Diploma with 13+ years of professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Enterprise Architecture & Data Management or IT.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading technical teams.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government SECRET security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Architecture & Data team across enterprise, platform, software, and data architects plus data engineers and product managers aligned to the Data Fabric.
• Own the team’s performance and development; foster ownership, flow, and continuous improvement while coaching 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 process, and exception handling.
• Set unified architecture and AI standards informed by TOGAF/Zachman and the NIST AI RMF; advise technology and AI investments.
• Maintain a single enterprise-wide capability map so AI can integrate into existing technology stacks.
• Set data architecture and modeling standards around business domains and govern data quality, lineage, and reusable data patterns across the org.
• Deliver the Defense & Systems Data Fabric and coordinate with the Data Fabric Sr Principal TPM; manage data fabric objectives and priorities.
• Supervise Data Fabric engineers in a matrixed arrangement and align objectives to fabric delivery.
• Ensure the canonical ontology, catalog, and governed data products support all in-scope domains and downstream AI use cases.
• Manage the four processes (ATG, TRL/CRL, FLIGHT DECK, RMF) as a single reference pattern for a streamlined route.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture governance

Data architecture

AI governance

Team leadership

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Master’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

TOGAF

NIST RMF

AI Risk Framework

Job description

GE Aerospace seeks a Director of Architecture & Data to lead a cross-disciplinary team that defines guardrails, builds a data fabric, and enables AI-native integration across defense software environments.

The role balances cutting-edge technology with safety, compliance, and enterprise governance. You will orchestrate architecture standards, data modeling, and RMF-coupled security across multiple teams while ensuring fast, coherent delivery.