Associate Director, Enterprise Architect Lead (Applications/Compliance) (REMOTE)

Date Posted:

2026-04-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-CA-REMOTE

Position Role Type:

Remote

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access certain necessary systems.

Security Clearance Type:

None/Not Required

Security Clearance Status:

Not Required

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

 

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team:

 

RTX has an opening for an Associate Director, Enterprise Architect Lead (Applications/Compliance) (Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture and Strategy) position.

 

Exciting Opportunity!

• Support GEC Programs
• Opportunity for a long-term COE or Architecture career path.
• Responsible for architecting the digital landscape for organizations within Enterprise Services Digital. 
• Partnership role will be supporting Application Strategy & Transformation organization with the initial focus on supporting critical programs for the Global Ethics & Compliance (GEC) programs. 

 

This role will lead all RTX architects (direct reports and not) and architecture efforts for the Global Ethics & Compliance function and any projects required to exit the Deferred Prosecution Agreement.  This leader is adept at engaging stakeholders to translate aerospace and defense regulation into business and technology requirements.  Success requires the ability to balance the standardization and harmonization of business processes and technology with the flexibility to accommodate operational models across business units. This leader develops roadmaps and solutions that fully address the transformation of infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, data and analytics capability to maintain superior compliance through digital enablement of key business processes

 

What You Will Do:

 

• Design systems that accommodate varying regulatory environments and trade practices specific to each unit’s regions, customer’s and operating environment.
• Implement unified approaches for data governance, compliance, and security across all operating units, ensuring compliance with EAR, ITAR, FCPA, TINA, etc.
• Leads all areas of responsibility effectively in multiple contexts, including executive influence, organizational change management, architecture processes and governance, and supervision of direct reporting organization.

 

GEC Responsibilities:

• Establish a federated architecture framework and system specific architectures to ensure each business unit’s unique GEC needs are addressed while maintaining a unified corporate architecture.
• Work with executives and stakeholders from all business units to align GEC initiatives with corporate-wide goals and each unit’s objectives, ensuring the architecture supports shared services and unit-specific needs.
• Define a unified roadmap for GEC technology transformations that compliments other significant enterprise strategies (e.g. cloud and ERP) and realizes a oneRTX vision for future systems and services.
• Leverages technology strategically, especially GEC solutions, automation, analytics and AI, to simplify compliance, improve employee experience and prevent escapes.

 

• Vet and select trade and compliance tools that can operate in different environments, ensuring scalability and interoperability across units, to include evaluation of current technologies employed by all units.
• Collaborates across Business Units and Functions to maintain a culture of compliance, best practice and innovation.
• Travel: 5-10%