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# Technical Lead / Chief Sec Arch-Eng

- **Company:** ClearFocus Technologies
- **Location:** Leesburg, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Zero Trust Network Access, Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture, Togaf
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us4d714099900e597adf8ece7fbdd34007/eaa

## About the Role

* Enterprise security architecture at federal-agency scale, not single-system design
 * Demonstrated threat modeling practice and a defensible methodology behind it
 * Authoring security reference architectures and patterns adopted across an enterprise
 * Briefing architecture decisions to senior Government stakeholders
 * 15+ years of experience and a Master's degree in a relevant field
 * One of the following certifications - PMP, IAT III, IAM III or IASAE III
 * Able to obtain a Tier 4 / High Risk Public Trust, * Zero Trust architecture at a federal agency
 * SABSA, TOGAF or equivalent architecture framework credential
 * Experience with the VA Technical Reference Model

## Description

The senior technical authority on the task order and the owner of architecture methodology. Leads security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and standards and requirements development, and sets the engineering design review approach the rest of the team executes against.


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