Director I, IT Service Owner - Data & AI Platforms at BAE Systems
Falls Church, VA
$153,377–$260,743from the description
Jul 30, 2026
Falls Church, VA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Director-level IT Service Owner role at BAE Systems responsible for owning the full lifecycle, architecture, roadmap, and reliability of the enterprise data and AI platform ecosystem — spanning ingestion, ETL/ELT, storage, governance, and AI/ML capabilities. The role combines deep hands-on platform expertise with people leadership (engineering, SRE, and platform ops teams) and executive stakeholder influence in a regulated defense environment.
Principal level · 12+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 570 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 120–850
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The job title is 'Director I, IT Service Owner - Data & AI Platforms' — a people-management role with direct team leadership, vendor management, and budget ownership, making 11-3021 the clear primary SOC. 15-1243 is noted as a runner-up given the heavy data architecture and platform engineering content.
The posting is tagged '#DM-Remote', indicating a fully remote position; no specific metro or state is listed.
The title carries no standard seniority level word, so the title states no level. However, the scope — org-wide platform authority, executive influence, 12+ years required, Director-level title — supports a Principal band.
'Advanced degree preferred' is a preference, not a hard gate; the hard minimum is a Bachelor's degree.
Cloud platforms appear in the required section as a broad capability ('cloud platforms, MDM, governance'); no specific cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP) is named, so it is captured generically. Container orchestration and observability platforms appear only under Preferred and are marked accordingly.
No security clearance is explicitly required, though the role operates in a regulated defense environment.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): container orchestration.
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