AI Functional Architect

Do you have an eye for detail and a passion for developing innovation solutions? Join our team! As an Enterprise Architect III, you’ll guide the development and support of our Enterprise Architecture deliverables. This includes supporting Enterprise Architecture initiatives of moderate priority and complexity and the current and future state blueprints across business, data, applications, and infrastructure architecture layers. You’ll coordinate activities with leadership, architects, SMEs, and program management to support architecture governance and ensure alignment of IT products/projects with Enterprise Architecture standards, blueprints, and roadmaps, and reduce costs and risks by reducing duplication and redundancy across capabilities. Your duties will also include developing reference architectures and guidelines for technology adoption and implementation (i.e. cloud migration, application modernization, ERP integration etc.), creating enterprise patterns, models, designs, standards, and monitoring and identifying leading technology trends. Additionally, you'll facilitate coordination with business area leadership & architects, SMEs, IT leadership, and program management to build support, staying current on business and IT strategy as it applies to SNC.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities:

Partner with AI data engineers and architects to create technical blueprints for AI systems

Collaborate with technical and business team to AI driven solutions

Define business and IT processes to streamline the technical aspects of systems to align with business/IT needs

Ensures functional content evolves concurrently with business growth and IT activities

Process analysis and documentation

Workflow creation that goes beyond business needs provided, thinking big picture for most optimal opportunity and efficiency generation

Facilitation of needs gathering sessions with stakeholders, ensuring the right questions are asked so that business needs are understood and documented as thoroughly as possible

Close collaboration with project management teams and enterprise architecture functions

Qualifications You Must Have:

Bachelor's Degree in a related field with at least 6 or more years of relevant experience

Higher education may substitute for relevant experience

Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education

Experience with enterprise architecture, capability planning, and alignment of IT to corporate and BU strategy

Experience designing, developing, and integrating applications

Understanding of AI technologies, including machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing

Knowledge of AI engineering and data science concepts

Knowledge of specific AI frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc)

Experience with enterprise architecture, capability planning, and alignment of IT to corporate and business unit strategy

Experience designing, developing, and integrating applications

Proven experience participating in business systems implementations as a functional architect or business systems analyst, including but not limited to systems such as ERP, MES, CRM, PLM, and S2P.

Strong facilitation, communication, teamwork and collaboration skills

Ability to create workflows in tools such as Visio and/or Lucid

Understanding of system integrations and ability to document requirements relating to these integrations

Qualifications We Prefer:

Experience in Agile development methodology and processes is preferred

Experience with drafting reference architecture

Experience in architecting enterprise systems such as PLM, MES, CRM, and ERP

Conceptualizing and developing abstract representations

BSA or project management certification

Experience in participating in architecting enterprise systems such as PLM, MES, CRM, and ERP

Conceptualizing and developing abstract representations

DevOps methodology experience

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

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SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.