Cybersecurity Architect (SME)

• Develop and assess security architectures, controls, trust boundaries, data flows, identity, and segmentation.
• Translate federal security requirements into implementable designs, mitigations, and risk decisions.
• Support architecture, security, technical, and phase-gate reviews.
• Identify security gaps, threats, vulnerabilities, technical debt, and compliance issues.
• Apply NIST RMF, Zero Trust, security controls, authorization, and continuous monitoring principles.
• Collaborate with cloud, network, identity, endpoint, data, application, and operations teams.
• Support authorization evidence, implementation readiness, and post-deployment validation.
• Document architecture decisions, risks, findings, and mitigations.
• Communicate security decisions and risk clearly to technical and government stakeholders.

• 12+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant security architecture/technical leadership.
• Strong knowledge of NIST RMF, Zero Trust, cloud security, identity, network, endpoint, application, data, logging/SIEM, and vulnerability management.
• Ability to develop practical security designs and risk-based recommendations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred:

• Federal/government cybersecurity architecture experience.
• CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, GIAC, or comparable certifications.
• Experience with Sparx/Prolaborate or similar architecture modeling tools.