Enterprise Architect - Advanced

RiVidium Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect who develops and maintains business, systems, and information processes to support enterprise mission needs; develops information technology (IT) rules and requirements that describe baseline and target architectures.

• Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
• Ensure that acquired or developed system(s) and architecture(s) are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
• Analyze candidate architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms.
• Develop a system security context, a preliminary system security Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and define baseline system security requirements in accordance with applicable cybersecurity requirements.
• Evaluate security architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided in response to requirements contained in acquisition documents.
• Write detailed functional specifications that document the architecture development process.
• Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
• Capture and integrate essential system capabilities or business functions required for partial or full system restoration after a catastrophic failure event.
• Develop enterprise architecture or system components required to meet user needs.
• Document and update as necessary all definition and architecture activities.
• Integrate results regarding the identification of gaps in security architecture.
• Plan implementation strategy to ensure that enterprise components can be integrated and aligned.
• Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.
• Integrate key management functions related to cyberspace.

• Skill in applying and incorporating information technologies into proposed solutions.
• Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
• Skill in determining how a security system should work (including its resilience and dependability capabilities) and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
• Skill in design modeling and building use cases (e.g., unified modeling language).
• Skill in writing code in a currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).
• Skill in the use of design methods.
• Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• Skill to identify cybersecurity and privacy issues that stem from connections with internal and external customers and partner organizations.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university
• Prefer an accredited Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering degree, or a degree in a Mathematics or Engineering field.
• Certification(s) (hold at least one of the following): IAT Level III - CASP, CISA or…