Principal Enterprise Architect, Business Systems & Data

🕒 August 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Shield AI

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Artificial Intelligence • Aerospace • Defense

Shield AI is a leading developer of AI-driven military solutions, focusing on enhancing mission autonomy and battlefield awareness. Their platform, Hivemind, enables rapid deployment of intelligent systems for various defense applications, including drone operation and surveillance. With a commitment to utilizing advanced technology, Shield AI aims to protect service members and civilians by revolutionizing defense technologies through autonomous systems.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve target-state enterprise systems and data architecture across major business domains, including G&A, product, engineering, operations, and supply-chain-adjacent capabilities • Lead discovery and rationalization of function-level and shadow IT stacks, documenting current-state architectures, identifying overlap and risk, and proposing a phased roadmap • Design and govern architecture patterns for regulated multi-environment operations, including commercial and future government-hosted systems • Partner with Cloud & Infrastructure and Security & Compliance teams on infrastructure and security implications • Define approved API, event-driven, and batch integration patterns between business systems, data platforms, and domain technologies • Guide decisions about placement of sensitive, controlled, or regulated data and workloads • Provide architectural oversight for ERP implementation, data platform modernization, domain onboarding, and product/engineering data initiatives • Establish architecture review practices, reference architectures, and reusable standards • Coach software engineering teams through design reviews, architecture forums, and hands-on guidance • Act as a strategic partner to the Sr. Director of Enterprise Data & Architecture and help establish the enterprise architecture practice

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior architecture roles spanning multiple business domains and technology platforms • Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise technology landscapes across applications, data platforms, and integration patterns • Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or government-adjacent environments with constraints around sensitive data handling, segmentation, and compliance • Experience with hybrid or multi-environment architectures, such as commercial plus government-hosted, cloud plus on-premises, or segregated environments • Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns and trade-offs between APIs, eventing, batch movement, replication, and system coupling • Ability to engage with technical teams, business stakeholders, security/compliance, and infrastructure leaders • Strong judgment, communication, and facilitation skills in ambiguous environments • Preferred: experience with Oracle ERP, SAP, or another major enterprise platform • Preferred: experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar modern cloud data platforms • Preferred: experience leading architecture rationalization or modernization across decentralized organizations • Preferred: experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or highly controlled-data environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Benefits • Equity • Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees • Full-time regular employees receive the offer package of pay within range listed plus bonus, benefits, and equity • Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support