Director of Enterprise Architecture & AI Products

About the Role

Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure, scalable environments. Our solutions empower programs to make faster decisions, close sustainment gaps, and meet the digital acquisition requirements. Rather than simply proposing transformation, we implement and operate it at scale. Our method is clear: we orchestrate existing tools into a governing system of record, ensuring government ownership of infrastructure and traceable decisions. There’s no vendor lock, no proprietary baselines, and no need for ATO rebuilds during transitions. Sabel Systems is redefining modern defense acquisition. If you seek to solve complex challenges at scale and want your work to directly accelerate military capability while reshaping the DoD’s approach to digital engineering, this is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• AI Product Development & Maturation
  • Own strategy, design, and development of AI-driven products and capabilities.
  • Mature AI offerings through structured iteration, performance improvement, and clear lifecycle management.
  • Implement governance around model development, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI.
  • Ensure AI solutions add meaningful mission value and scale appropriately across product lines.
• Enterprise Architecture & Mission Alignment
  • Define the enterprise architecture strategy and establish reference architectures, standards, and patterns.
  • Ensure technical direction provides interoperability, scalability, security, and consistent product experience.
  • Translate mission objectives, operational requirements, and customer challenges into architectural principles and product capabilities.
  • Continuously evaluate how product architecture enables end-user effectiveness and mission-level outcomes.
• Roadmap & Growth Alignment
  • Map new customer opportunities to product capabilities and architectural investment needs.
  • Ensure product evolution reflects demand signals, market trajectory, and growth strategy.
  • Guide platform modernization through evaluation of emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns; prioritize investments based on strategic value, mission impact, and reuse potential.
  • Partner with growth, capture, and product teams to ensure technology investments anticipate future customer solution patterns.
• Digital Engineering Integration
  • Integrate digital engineering principles such as MBSE, digital thread, and digital twins into product architectures.
  • Define how engineering models and authoritative data environments interact with product functionality and AI features.
  • Promote lifecycle traceability, automation, and engineering rigor across product development.
• Governance, Alignment & Talent
  • Lead architecture reviews, decision boards, and governance processes; enforce quality, consistency, security, compliance, and interoperability across all products.
  • Build the connective framework between Product Architecture (roadmap, technology direction) and Solutions Architecture (opportunity shaping, customer-facing design); equip Solutions Architects with reusable patterns and architectural guardrails.
  • Ensure pursuit architectures conform to enterprise standards and inform future product investments.
  • Provide architectural leadership during customer engagements, demos, and proposals; translate complex architectural concepts into clear narratives for executives, technical teams, and customers.
  • Develop frameworks and systems to grow architects and engineers and strengthen architectural discipline across the team.