Enterprise Architect - Defence North America Business

Job Title: Enterprise Architect – Defense North America Business

Working Pattern: Fulltime

Working location: Indianapolis, IN or Reston, VA or Remote

As an Enterprise Architect for Rolls-Royce’s Defense North America Business, you’ll become a key part of our Defence Digital & IT leadership team.  This is a highly influential and impactful role, as you’ll be guiding and defining Defense’s technology strategy and architecture in order to enable the business strategy and achievement of critical operational and financial goals.

Our Digital & IT function is at the heart of enabling our business to transform into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company.  Playing a key role in achieving our ambitious transformation, you will work closely with senior business leaders to deeply understand their future plans and commitments and formulate a future focused digital & IT landscape that will enable them to succeed.

As a function, Digital & IT is on its own exciting transformation journey as we move towards a simpler organization focused on reducing time to value and increasingly contributing as a critical enabler to the wider Rolls-Royce company transformation.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce has been recognized as the top employer in the Engineering & Manufacturing category on the prestigious Forbes Top Employers for Engineers list for 2025. This ranking highlights our commitment to innovation, employee development, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive.

Be part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get the chance to:

• Collaborate with Digital & IT Business Partners and business leaders to deeply understand the Defence business strategy.
• Develop a mid- to long-term view of the capability landscape required by the business
• Develop a multi-year Digital capability roadmap aligned to business priorities and outcomes to enable the strategy, financial and operational goals to be met.
• Establish roadmaps that are focused on reducing risk, technical debt, total cost of ownership whilst increasing overall business value delivered to Defence.
• Understand and articulate evolving business priorities and technology capabilities; drive innovation, concept assessments, industry benchmarking analysis, risk analysis, business case development and approval for technologies that could benefit Defence.
• Collaborate with vendors and industry leaders to identify strategic and innovative uses of technology to address business challenges/opportunities and close capability gaps in Defence.
• Establish and lead governance arrangements to ensure that the enterprise architecture delivers the desired business outcomes and benefits to Defence.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• An Assoicate's Degree with 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or IT or digital solutions
• A Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or IT or digital solutions OR;
• A Masters degree with 6+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, to include Data, Infrastructure, Applications and Process OR;
• A JD/PhD with 3+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, to include Data, Infrastructure, Applications and Process
• In lieu of degree, 12+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or IT or Digital Solutions
• In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be a US Citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Extensive experience in a senior IT leadership role within a large, complex organisation
• Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering large-scale IT and digital transformation projects
• Prior experience working with board level stakeholders and building relationships at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with business and technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated business and financial acumen skills
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• TOGAF certification

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, long term incentive, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing date:  November 19, 2025

Information Technology12 Nov 2025; 00:11$140,242 - $227,894-AnnuallyIndianapolis, IN

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.