Security Architect Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Security Architect / Engineer provides technical leadership for designing and governing security architecture across FAA data platforms and enterprise systems. This role defines target-state security architecture and ensures alignment with FAA ISPP, FISMA, FedRAMP, and ATO requirements.

The Security Architect / Engineer embeds security into platform and solution architectures spanning data, application, integration, cloud, and hybrid environments. Responsibilities include defining and enforcing security patterns for identity and access management (IAM), encryption, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and incident response. The role leads security architecture reviews, supports system authorization activities, and designs continuous monitoring and compliance mechanisms across production and non-production environments.

The Security Architect / Engineer collaborates closely with enterprise, solution, and integration architects, platform engineers, Development, Security, and Operations (Dev Sec Ops ) teams, and system owners to identify risks, recommend mitigations, and ensure security is integrated throughout the system development life cycle (SDLC). The role produces and maintains security architecture artifacts, participates in governance and technical reviews, and provides advisory support for platform modernization and cloud migration initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience designing and governing security architectures in complex, regulated enterprise environments.
• A minimum of 6 years of cybersecurity or similar professional experience.
• Strong knowledge of FISMA, RedRAMP, ATO processes, IAM, encryption, audit logging, and continuous monitoring practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, information security, or a related technical discipline (master’s preferred).
• Experience supporting systems through the full SDLC, including security design reviews, authorization, and operational sustainment.
• Proven ability to evaluate emerging security technologies and apply them across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate security requirements into actionable technical designs.
• Experience successfully leading federal security and privacy reviews for a broad range of software and systems, including custom-developed and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
• Experience managing Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs) associated with security reviews, and experience leading their implementation.
• Experience integrating security controls, associated authentication and authorization protocols, with internal and externals software and platforms, including SaaS.

• Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Retirement Savings Plans (401K)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Leave, Holidays)
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Insurance (Life, Short/Long Term Disability, AD&D)
• Employee Referral Bonus

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required totalk or hear. The employeefrequentlyis required touse hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required tostand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

The noise level in the work environment isusually lowto moderate.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees willbe required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modificationtoreasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

To perform this job successfully, the incumbents willpossessthe skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.