LocationWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Work modehybrid
Typefull-time
Company size11+ people
First seen1w ago
Last seen1d ago
About the role
We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns security architecture across enterprise solutions, platforms, networks, identity, mobility/endpoints, data, and cloud, bridging cybersecurity policy and controls with implementable designs, evidence, and risk decisions throughout the system lifecycle.
This is a hands-on architecture role. You’ll be expected to produce real security designs and see them through review, implementation, and operations, not just set policy from a distance.
This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Key Responsibilities
1. Security Architecture & Design
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Develop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity and segmentation design.
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Design logging, resilience, and operational safeguards into solution architecture.
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Translate federal and agency security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements.
2. Reviews & Governance
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Participate in architecture compliance, technical design, engineering, security, and phase-gate reviews.
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Evaluate proposed deviations and waivers, and provide risk-informed recommendations for approval.
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Maintain security architecture artifacts, review findings, decisions, and risks in approved repositories, with clear traceability.
3. Cross-Domain Coordination
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Coordinate with solution, data, cloud/platform, network, identity, endpoint/mobility, and operations stakeholders to embed security into design from the start.
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Identify design gaps, threats, vulnerabilities, technical debt, and noncompliance early in the lifecycle, and propose mitigation options.
4. Risk & Compliance
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Apply federal risk management framework and security control knowledge to real design decisions.
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Support authorization evidence, implementation readiness, and post-deployment validation as needed.
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Produce implementable security designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions that engineers can act on.
5. Communication & Advisory
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Communicate security architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and residual risk clearly to engineers, architects, program managers, and Government stakeholders.
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Support incident and problem learning to feed back into architecture improvements.
Requirements
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12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including significant time in security architecture or enterprise technical leadership.
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Working knowledge of federal risk management, security controls, authorization, continuous monitoring, zero trust, identity, network, endpoint, cloud, application, data, and logging considerations.
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Ability to interpret security requirements and produce implementable designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions.
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Strong communication skills, with experience engaging engineers, architects, program managers, and Government decision-makers.
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U.S. citizenship required.
Nice to Have
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Direct federal, government, or mission-critical system security architecture experience.