Description
Job Title: Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect
Location: Hybrid- 2 days a week on-site- Suitland, MD
Salary: 190,000-265,000
Summary
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
- Security Architecture & Design
- Develop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity and segmentation design.
- Design logging, resilience, and operational safeguards into solution architecture.
- Translate federal and agency security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements.
- Reviews & Governance
- Participate in architecture compliance, technical design, engineering, security, and phase-gate reviews.
- Evaluate proposed deviations and waivers, and provide risk-informed recommendations for approval.
- Maintain security architecture artifacts, review findings, decisions, and risks in approved repositories, with clear traceability.
- Cross-Domain Coordination
- Coordinate with solution, data, cloud/platform, network, identity, endpoint/mobility, and operations stakeholders to embed security into design from the start.
- Identify design gaps, threats, vulnerabilities, technical debt, and noncompliance early in the lifecycle, and propose mitigation options.
- Risk & Compliance