Enterprise Architect (Associate Director) - Digital Connected Factory - Hybrid, Tucson, AZ

Date Posted: 2026-08-18 | Location: Tucson, AZ (Hybrid) | U.S. citizenship required to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance; active clearance required after day one.

About the Role

Raytheon Digital Technology (DT) seeks an experienced technologist as an Enterprise Architect for the Digital Connected Factory expansion and modernization. This senior architect will drive transformation to use digital automation and AI to orchestrate factory activities, focusing on enabling maximum factory uptime and resilient manufacturing flow. You will work across multiple teams to lead integration of digital systems, roadmap, and solution strategy, ensuring alignment to factory modernization and capacity growth plans. This role reports to the director of Enterprise Architecture Solutions and partners with fellows and solution architects across applications, data, AI, operations, Industry 4.0, and cloud teams to ensure cohesive architecture, standards, and execution across programs and sites.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the system-of-systems architecture supporting Digital Factory Orchestration to drive high uptime, predictable flow, and real-time operational responsiveness.
• Ensure capabilities, roadmaps, and interfaces between systems are trusted, aligned, and optimized for production stability and program schedule outcomes; communicate a unified architecture vision across teams.
• Lead work products delivering the Digital Factory Orchestrator (aligned to RTX's Connected Factory vision), emphasizing cohesive integration and iterative delivery to minimize unplanned downtime and reduce production disruptions.
• Align and govern cross-functional agile teams (applications, data/AI, MES/IIoT, automation/robotics, infrastructure/cloud, security) with consistent architecture patterns and reusable reference implementations.
• Coordinate with architects on end-to-end integrations across factory orchestration, SAP ERP & planning, MES/Industry 4.0, enterprise data warehouse/knowledge graph, and material-movement robotics using event-driven and API-centric patterns.
• Analyze complex, multi-dimensional problems; assess agentic frameworks, orchestration runtimes, digital thread capabilities, and industrial protocols through POCs/pilots to de-risk scale-out.
• Communicate with senior executive leadership on strategic matters; negotiate and influence stakeholders, partners, and vendors to adopt architectures, standards, and practices ensuring consistent operational outcomes.
• Apply Lean principles to identify and eliminate constraints, reduce waste, and improve process stability; deploy digital automation and autonomy to accelerate flow, quality, throughput, and system availability.
• Publish formal artifacts (visual and model-based roadmaps, capability frameworks, logical/physical system and data views, security models) using TOGAF-aligned processes and enterprise modeling tools.
• Promote reuse of patterns and building blocks to strengthen uptime and reduce architectural variability across factories.
• Partner with cloud, networking, and cybersecurity teams to implement observability, zero-trust principles, and regulated-industry controls in designs.

Hybrid role located in Tucson, AZ; may require travel to U.S. factory sites, partners, and suppliers (~20% depending on program needs).

Requirements

• Experience with industrial/manufacturing architectures delivering enterprise-grade factory solutions (MES, SCADA/ICS, IIoT); familiarity with ISA-95/Purdue concepts, event-driven architectures, and API ecosystems.
• Experience leading other architects and setting architectures for multiple teams working together on complex system-of-system solutions.
• Experience with Cloud & on-prem computing: architecture and delivery on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure, integrated with on-prem networking/compute/storage in hybrid patterns.
• Enterprise architecture thought leadership and executive-level communication skills; ability to brief senior leaders, build consensus, and influence technology transformation.
• U.S. citizenship required to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance; active clearance required after day one.
• University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years' experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting business-critical systems with high-availability and resiliency.
• Architecture certifications (TOGAF, DoDAF) or applied experience creating architecture models and views (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, SysML) using enterprise modeling tools (e.g., Cameo/Sparx).
• Experience with industrial communications and IIoT protocols (e.g., MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus) and platforms (Ignition, Kepware, Splunk).
• Experience with ERP and MRP business planning systems.
• Expertise with 12-factor applications, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps; fluency with containers/orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS/Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible).
• Demonstrated leadership in AI and agentic platforms (e.g., multi-agent orchestration, LLM/RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, vector search) applied to operations/manufacturing use cases.
• Strong background across RDBMS and NoSQL; experience designing data products and knowledge graphs supporting AI-driven orchestration.
• Proven leadership in multi-year transformations, including financial estimates, planning, scheduling, and building technology partner relationships.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
• Eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (dependent on role level and collective-bargaining agreement).

Specific benefits are dependent upon the business unit and whether the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $157,200 – $298,800 USD. The range is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including role, function, responsibilities, work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Schedule

Hybrid: Employees work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite is determined in partnership with your leader. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

Relocation eligibility available for the Tucson, AZ location if the selected applicant meets company policy criteria.