Senior Enterprise Architect (AI)

Location: Wichita, Kansas, United States; onsite, union-represented position.

Salary: $121,900–$186,900 per year, based on experience, qualifications, market, and business considerations.

Company

hirify.global is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company that designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, using composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

What you will do

• Define and govern the enterprise-wide IT landscape supporting aerospace engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and flight operations.
• Develop technical debt resolution plans, legacy application rationalization plans, multi-year IT roadmaps, and technical standards.
• Identify and evaluate risk, cost, schedule, and support constraints and provide business recommendations.
• Guide the adoption of new and existing technologies using DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
• Assess AI risks and make risk-based go/no-go decisions across enterprise systems and platforms.
• Communicate technical concepts to application and system owners, leadership, partners, and vendors while ensuring architecture deliverables are complete and on schedule.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in Enterprise, Solution, or AI Architecture or IT leadership.
• 5+ years of experience in AI governance, risk management, algorithmic auditing, or data science compliance.
• Experience developing enterprise AI strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Generative AI, ML, Responsible AI, and AI governance.
• Experience with NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP Top 10.
• Proven ability to conduct AI threat and risk assessments and make risk-based go/no-go decisions.
• Strong AWS and/or Azure architecture experience, including AI/ML services.
• Secure architecture knowledge across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise ecosystems and ERP, PLM, MES, or cybersecurity platforms.
• Ability to assess model training data, explainability, automated decision paths, security, scalability, compliance, and cost.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of DevOps, MLOps, and DevSecOps, as well as broad business systems, application, hardware, and software architecture.

Nice to have

• Aerospace experience.
• Experience in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, or flight operations.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI platforms, copilots, or enterprise AI implementations.
• Enterprise modernization and legacy application rationalization experience.
• AWS, Azure, AI, cybersecurity, or Enterprise Architecture certifications.
• Experience with data platforms, analytics, or AI-enabled decision support.

Culture & Benefits

• Union-represented position.
• Drug-free workplace with post-offer testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when policy criteria are met.
• Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Potential Kansas aviation tax credit of up to $5,000 per year for up to five years.