Remote-Eligible Enterprise Application Architect Lead

Northrop Grumman; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks a Senior Staff Computer Systems Architect to lead enterprise application architecture across the Strategy and Architecture team. You will define principles, patterns, and guardrails to maintain coherent application portfolios while guiding modernization and integration efforts.

This role offers a remote-work arrangement with occasional onsite meetings within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise application architecture principles, target-state patterns, and portfolio guardrails.
• Guide application-related trade-offs involving modernization, rationalization, reuse, integration, lifecycle planning, and platform alignment.
• Partner with business capability, data, technology, security, delivery, and portfolio stakeholders to improve coherence in enterprise application decisions.
• Translate enterprise priorities into practical roadmaps, standards, and architectural expectations across the broader Enterprise Applications landscape.
• Identify duplication, overlap, fragmentation, and technical debt concentration across systems.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Application architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Roadmap planning

Job description

Northrop Grumman seeks a Senior Staff Computer Systems Architect to lead enterprise application architecture across the Strategy and Architecture team. You will define principles, patterns, and guardrails to maintain coherent application portfolios while guiding modernization and integration efforts.

This role offers a remote-work arrangement with occasional onsite meetings within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location.