ICS Authorizations Program Analyst II

About You

You are a person who is looking to advance the organization's security and compliance objectives. We need someone who brings a blend of project management discipline, hands-on experience with security authorizations, and familiarity with working alongside federal agencies or Third-Party Assessment Organizations. In the role of ICS Authorizations Program Analyst II, you will serve as the primary ATO and FedRAMP coordination point between federal agency stakeholders and internal SaaS teams.

• Tell us about your experience in Cybersecurity, Compliance, Risk, Framework Compliance, or Audit Programs.
• Are you a team player and a self-motivator?
• What is your experience with conducting business in a way that is credit to a company?
• We are counting on you to manage multiple projects using your problem-solving skills.
• We are looking for someone UNCOMMON. What is uncommon about you?

Are you highly committed? Are you team-oriented? Do you value professionalism, trust, honesty, and integrity? If so, we cannot wait to meet you.

About The Position

• Plan, manage, and track system Authorization to Operate (ATO) and FedRAMP authorization packages, including schedules, dependencies, and renewal cycles, ensuring all required documentation is completed by internal owners and submitted to Agency partners on time.
• Work directly with federal agency points of contact and internal SaaS product, engineering, and security teams to clarify authorization and evidence requirements, assign actions, and follow up until all requested artifacts are complete and accepted.
• For client- or agency-specific packages coordinate with the assigned security analyst to ensure that the SSP is documented, updated, and delivered, tracking status but not authoring the technical content.
• Coordinate security assessments and audits through engagement with internal and external stakeholders, including 3PAOs and federal partners, managing evidence collection, organizing responses to questions, and tracking remediation of findings across responsible internal teams.
• Oversee submission and maintenance of continuous monitoring evidence for assigned systems, confirming that scan results, inventory updates, POA&M updates, and change records have been prepared by the appropriate internal owners and transmitted per agency or FedRAMP requirements.
• Monitor, assess, and report on control effectiveness; develop dashboards and metrics to communicate overall compliance posture to leadership.
• Support assessments against NIST-based requirements (e.g., NIST 800-53, NIST CSF) and related programs such as FedRAMP, FISMA, or HIPAA by coordinating tasking and consolidating evidence and status updates.
• Translate technical and policy requirements from Agencies and 3PAOs into actionable, trackable plans for internal teams, ensuring timely remediation and risk reduction.
• Contribute to the improvement of compliance and authorization workflows, leveraging GRC tools to automate and track activities related to ATOs, FedRAMP, and continuous monitoring.
• Serve as a liaison with IT, security operations, privacy, and business units to ensure cohesive governance and communication of audit results and policy updates.

Minimum Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a NACLC DoD Security Clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 5--10 years of progressively responsible experience supporting cybersecurity, compliance, risk, framework compliance, or audit programs within a federal agency, contractor, or 3PAO environment.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex authorization and audit workstreams, schedules, dependencies, documentation control, and deliverable quality.
• Advanced working knowledge of NIST-based frameworks, the end-to-end ATO lifecycle (e.g., SSP, RAR/SAR, POA&M, continuous monitoring), and how these are applied in practice to federal or FedRAMP authorized systems.
• Proven experience coordinating ATO or FedRAMP authorization activities with federal agencies or as part of a FedRAMP 3PAO, including scheduling, evidence tracking, and coordinating responses from internal technical teams
• Experience interpreting ATO and FedRAMP evidence requests and translating them into clear, trackable tasks for internal subject matter experts.
• Working proficiency with GRC platforms and workflows (e.g., Onspring, Archer, ServiceNow), including reporting/metrics to communicate compliance posture and risk.
• Strong analytical, writing, and facilitation skills, with the ability to brief leadership, influence outcomes, and translate complex security/compliance topics for varied audiences.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience managing system security plans (SSPs), risk assessment reports (RARs), and plans of action and milestones (POA&Ms), including coordinating inputs and updates from multiple contributors.
• Six Sigma, ISO, or other quality certifications
• Hands-on exposure to FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD RMF assessment requirements, ideally in a cloud or SaaS context
• CAP, PMP, or comparable certification in security or project management preferred.

About Us

You are uncommon. We are, too. We are looking for people to help us in our mission of working hard at lowering healthcare administrative costs for federal government agencies, payers, and providers. At Signature, our mission is to improve the health of our clients' business and make the lives of the people we work with better. As we continue to experience exponential growth, we are looking for uncommon individuals to enhance our vision. We will continue to accomplish our mission by leading with our values of Passion, Courage, Integrity, and Respect in all interactions, making us a consistent annual Best Places to Work organization. We need uncommon leaders with uncommon qualities to shape our uncommon culture and achieve our uncommon mission.

About the Benefits

We are proud to put our signature on each one of our employees. When you are a member of Signature Performance, you are a part of a solutions-based organization where the values of passion, integrity, courage, and respect are the driving forces behind all our decision-making. We trust you to do important work and bring the best version of yourself to work every day, so we want to help you achieve a work-life balance while consistently challenging yourself. Signature believes in fully developing each one of our Associates. We deliver a performance-driven atmosphere with competitive pay, world-class training and development classes, resources, and events, an award-winning culture where everyone thrives, and so much more.

• Health Insurance for Our Associates
• Fully Paid Life Insurance
• Fully Paid Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Professional Development and Tuition Assistance Program
• 401(k) Program with Employer Match