Solutions Architect

Our Partner is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution. Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services. They are seeking a Solutions Architect to support this critical customer mission.

• Lead the end-to-end mapping of new technology identification, requirements development, and workflows across all Threat Hunt
• Identify and document inputs, outputs, and dependencies for each phase of new technology insertion
• Develop visual diagrams (process flows, swimlanes, dependency maps) to illustrate how proposed changes impacts each section/branch
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to validate workflows and uncover cross-functional impacts
• Deliver actionable visuals and documentation to support strategic planning, compliance, and operational readiness
• Document current and define future-State Workflows and Processes
• Identify inputs, outputs, and key activities for each phase
• Map dependencies between initiatives, systems, and teams
• Develop end-to-end workflow diagrams
• Createswimlane diagrams to show roles and handoffs
• Validate diagrams and maps with stakeholders
• Analyze impact on each subdivision/branch
• Identify gaps and recommend process/system changes
• Deliver final visuals and documentation to leadership

• U.S. Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) Suitability
• BS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree;
  Masters degree preferred
• 10+ years of direct relevant experience in systems engineering and architecture development
• Knowledge in various IT fields that include but are not limited to systems and networking engineering, technical analytics, threat hunt incident response/ hunt deployment tools, cloud technologies, and databases
• Experience with and technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures
• Experience with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools
• Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
• Must be able to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations.
• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
• Agile Systems Engineering and/or development experience
• Dev Sec Ops  or Dev Ops experience

• Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF)
• Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe)
• Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred)
• Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)
• DHS experience

• DoD 8140 IAT Level III
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)
• SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)