Enterprise Chief Engineer

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies is seeking an experienced Enterprise Chief Engineer to serve as the senior technical advisor and architectural authority for enterprise information technology capabilities. The Enterprise Chief Engineer will lead technical vision, engineering standards, architecture governance, integration, and technical risk management across a complex enterprise portfolio.

This role requires a strategic, hands-on technical leader who can ensure delivered systems, applications, networks, cloud environments, and IT services are modern, secure, scalable, resilient, and architecturally coherent. The successful candidate will work closely with enterprise IT leadership, program managers, section chiefs, mission partners, developers, network operations teams, cybersecurity personnel, and system owners to align technical delivery with long-term mission objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, and Technical Integration

- Serve as the Enterprise Chief Engineer and principal technical advisor for enterprise engineering standards, architecture, integration, and technical risk.

- Develop and maintain three- to five-year technical modernization roadmaps and architecture-evolution plans aligned to enterprise mission objectives, growth requirements, and technology priorities.

- Establish, maintain, and enforce enterprise engineering standards, architectural principles, design patterns, and technical baselines.

- Chair or lead Engineering Review Boards (ERBs), design reviews, and technical governance forums.

- Review, assess, and adjudicate proposed architectures, technical designs, engineering approaches, and major technology changes.

- Ensure systems, networks, applications, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise services comply with approved architecture principles, cybersecurity requirements, interoperability needs, and engineering standards.

- Translate emerging science and engineering mission requirements and operational needs into viable, secure, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions.

- Lead enterprise-level configuration control activities, including management of architectural baselines, technical dependencies, and change-control processes.

- Serve as the final technical authority for complex engineering decisions, technical disputes, integration challenges, and multi-disciplinary design tradeoffs.

- Identify, assess, track, and mitigate enterprise technical risks, vulnerabilities, dependencies, capacity constraints, and architectural single points of failure.

- Provide technical direction to improve system resiliency, availability, maintainability, performance, and lifecycle sustainability.

Strategic Engineering Operations and Mission Integration

- Provide enterprise leadership, section chiefs, program managers, and mission partners with strategic technical advice, architectural analysis, technology forecasting, and capacity-planning recommendations.

- Deliver executive-level technical briefings, architectural health assessments, readiness analyses, and data-driven risk reports.

- Develop clear decision-quality products that communicate technical status, risks, options, dependencies, and recommended courses of action to senior stakeholders.

- Partner with development teams, network operations, cybersecurity organizations, cloud engineers, system owners, and mission stakeholders to ensure seamless enterprise integration.

- Guide engineering teams in applying agile methods and enterprise tools to deliver architectural changes securely, efficiently, and with minimal operational friction.

- Monitor the technical health of the enterprise portfolio and recommend investments, modernization priorities, and corrective actions.

- Promote a culture of disciplined engineering, technical rigor, innovation, documentation, and continuous improvement.

- Support planning, prioritization, and sequencing of enterprise engineering initiatives to balance mission needs, technical debt, cybersecurity requirements, resources, and operational constraints.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a related technical field.
• Professional certifications relevant to enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, systems engineering, cybersecurity, program management, or agile delivery such as CISSP, CISM, or GSLC certifications or equivalent
• Extensive experience leading enterprise architecture, systems engineering, technical integration, or engineering governance activities within complex IT environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps, reference architectures, engineering standards, and modernization strategies.
• Experience leading architecture review boards, design reviews, configuration-control processes, or comparable technical governance forums.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise IT domains, including infrastructure, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, applications, data, systems integration, and service delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technical tradeoffs involving security, scalability, performance, resiliency, cost, schedule, and mission impact.
• Experience identifying and managing enterprise-level technical risks, dependencies, vulnerabilities, and architectural deficiencies.
• Proven ability to communicate technical concepts, risks, and recommendations effectively to executive-level and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional technical teams in a complex, mission-focused environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, briefing, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to meet applicable customer access, security, and onsite-work requirements.
• Active Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a related technical field.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense, federal, defense, intelligence, research and development, or other mission-critical enterprise IT environments.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, zero trust, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, containerization, platform engineering, data platforms, or enterprise service management.
• Experience integrating research and development capabilities into operational enterprise environments.
• Experience developing technical performance measures, architectural health metrics, capacity models, and executive risk reporting.
• Familiarity with agile engineering practices and enterprise collaboration, portfolio-management, configuration-management, and architecture-modeling tools.

Key Competencies

• Enterprise architecture and systems engineering 
• Technical governance and engineering standards 
• Strategic technology planning and modernization 
• Cloud, network, application, and infrastructure integration 
• Cybersecurity and secure-by-design principles 
• Configuration management and change control 
• Technical risk management and resiliency engineering 
• Executive communication and technical briefing 
• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder engagement 
• Agile architecture and enterprise delivery practices 

Schedule: (M-F; 8-5)

Work Location: (onsite – Eglin AFB, FL)

Travel: (10%)

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Benefits: 

Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent, comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation, 401(k) match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts, EAP, education assistance, paid time off, and holidays.  

Applying to Torch Technologies: 

Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at Torch Technologies is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check. 

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