Cybersecurity Architect Security Clearance

Position: Cybersecurity Architect with Security Clearance
Koniag Data Solutions, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Cybersecurity Architect to support KDS and our government customer in Washington, DC. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust. We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.

Koniag Data Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Architect to support the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The ideal candidate is a highly skilled cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in designing, developing, and implementing enterprise-level security architectures for complex federal IT environments. This individual will serve as a strategic and technical advisor to SBA stakeholders, providing expert guidance on cybersecurity architecture, risk management, and the integration of security controls across SBA's technology landscape to protect the agency's systems, data, and mission-critical operations.

The Cybersecurity Architect will serve as the senior technical expert responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing the implementation of comprehensive cybersecurity architectures and solutions that protect SBA's systems, networks, applications, and data assets. This individual will provide authoritative architectural guidance across SBA's technology portfolio, ensuring security is embedded into every layer of the agency's IT environment and that SBA's cybersecurity architecture evolves in response to the changing threat landscape, emerging technologies, and federal cybersecurity policy requirements.

Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
* Develop, maintain, and continuously evolve SBA's enterprise cybersecurity architecture, ensuring alignment with federal cybersecurity policies, industry best practices, and SBA's mission requirements, and providing authoritative architectural direction across all components of SBA's IT environment.
* Design and oversee the implementation of security architectures for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid IT environments, ensuring the consistent integration of security controls, requirements, and best practices throughout the system development lifecycle (SDLC) and across SBA's full technology portfolio.
* Serve as the primary trusted technical advisor to SBA's IT leadership, system owners, and key stakeholders on all matters related to cybersecurity architecture, emerging threats, technology investments, and security capability development, providing clear, actionable recommendations to strengthen SBA's overall security posture.
* Lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive cybersecurity architecture documentation, including enterprise reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), security design patterns, data flow diagrams, interface control documents, and multi-year technical security roadmaps aligned with SBA's strategic IT direction.
* Evaluate and recommend cybersecurity technologies, tools, platforms, and solutions to address identified capability gaps and emerging threats, preparing detailed technical assessments and business cases to support informed SBA security technology investment and procurement decisions.
* Collaborate with SBA IT architects, system owners, developers, program offices, and acquisition teams to integrate security requirements and architectural standards into the design, development, procurement, and deployment of new and existing SBA systems and applications.
* Provide authoritative expert guidance on Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles and lead SBA's efforts to design, plan, and implement a comprehensive Zero Trust framework across the agency's enterprise environment, aligned with OMB M-22-09 and applicable CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model guidance.
* Lead and support the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authorization to Operate (ATO) process, providing senior architectural expertise to support the development and review of System Security Plans (SSPs), security control assessments, risk assessment documentation, and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) in accordance with NIST guidelines and SBA's RMF procedures
* Assess and advise on the security architecture implications of emerging technologies, including cloud services, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotic process automation, containerization, and API-driven architectures, as they relate to SBA's technology modernization strategy and security posture.
* Lead and oversee security architecture reviews and technical assessments of existing and proposed SBA systems and solutions, identifying vulnerabilities, architectural weaknesses, security control gaps, and areas of non-compliance with federal security requirements, and developing detailed findings reports and remediation…