Technical Lead, Chief Security Architect – Engineer

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🔥 21 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $103.1k - $172.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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9th Way Insignia

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

9th Way Insignia is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that serves the federal government by delivering modern technology solutions and thought leadership. The company specializes in cybersecurity, automation, and data science to streamline operations and reduce costs for Federal agencies. By leveraging automation and artificial intelligence, 9th Way Insignia helps optimize workflows, eliminate redundancies, and enhance mission-critical operations, ensuring efficiency and significant savings for clients.

📋 Description

• Provide senior-level technical leadership and architectural direction for enterprise cybersecurity architecture and engineering across the VA environment • Serve as principal security architecture and engineering subject-matter expert for Government leadership, program managers, architects, engineers and technical teams • Translate customer, mission, business, cybersecurity and regulatory requirements into enterprise security architectures, engineering requirements, technical strategies and implementation guidance • Lead and coordinate architecture and engineering teams • Conduct and oversee enterprise and system-level security architecture reviews • Assess threats, vulnerabilities, regulatory requirements, security controls and enterprise risk tolerance • Perform architecture risk and gap analyses against VA and Federal policies, standards, frameworks and strategic objectives • Develop risk-mitigation strategies and architectural recommendations • Apply Zero Trust, defense-in-depth, least privilege and secure-by-design principles • Lead or oversee security threat modeling and mitigation planning • Guide Security Reference Architectures, Solution Architectures, Security Patterns and enterprise architecture artifacts • Provide technical leadership for modernization of legacy and emerging health IT architectures • Evaluate and guide cloud, mobile, IoT, APIs, VR/XR, 5G, DLP, cryptography, PQC, quantum computing and AI adoption or integration • Research complex cybersecurity, architecture, engineering and technology problems • Conduct technical trade-off analyses and resolve requirements, architectural conflicts, risks, dependencies and implementation issues • Provide lifecycle architectural oversight from concept through implementation, operations, authorization, modernization and retirement • Lead security requirements baselines and traceability through final ATO • Review system, application, cloud, network, data, identity and platform designs • Develop compensating controls and mitigation approaches • Support cybersecurity risk assessment and management aligned with NIST SP 800-53, OMB mandates and NIST Cybersecurity Framework • Guide application of NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, CIS Controls and HIPAA • Provide technical input for Federal A&A, accreditation, ATO, continuous monitoring and risk management • Participate in VA governance boards, technical review committees, engineering working groups, architecture forums and modernization initiatives • Establish and communicate architectural positions, engineering decisions, technical standards and security requirements • Assist with VA security policies, guidelines, standards, technical positions and white papers • Develop executive and technical briefings • Present complex cybersecurity and architecture matters to executive, Government, technical and non-technical stakeholders • Provide technical oversight and quality assurance for architecture and engineering deliverables • Review architectural artifacts and technical documentation • Mentor and direct security architects, cloud engineers, DevSecOps engineers, AI engineers, cryptography specialists and risk analysts • Facilitate collaboration across security, engineering, operations, governance, development, cloud, data, identity and program-management functions • Support pilots, prototypes, use cases, proof-of-concept activities and enterprise transformation initiatives • Ensure architecture and engineering decisions support secure modernization, confidentiality, integrity, availability, compliance and mission effectiveness • May require up to two onsite travel visits

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of Enterprise Security Architecture Information Security experience at a large company or Government agency similar in size/scope to GSA, IRS, DoD or VA • An additional advanced degree (e.g. Master’s or PhD) in an IT related field may substitute for up to 5 years of the required experience • Expertise in project management, security architecture and security engineering • Ability to translate customer requirements and relay them to the team • Expertise advancing legacy and new health IT digital architectures, including cloud, mobile, IoT, APIs, VR/XR, 5G, PQC, DLP, cryptography, quantum computing and AI technologies • Expertise in risk management • Expertise using Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools • Expertise guiding architecture tool processes and products, e.g. SABSA • Expertise analyzing and researching complex subject-matter problems and processes • Expertise coordinating with program and project leaders to analyze system architectures during design reviews and throughout the conceptual design lifecycle • Expertise identifying strategies for requirements, risks and issues, including detailed trade-off analysis against fiscal, schedule and performance issues • Expertise creating diagrams and documentation comprising IT systems, including network topology • Expertise in security frameworks and Federal policies, processes and standards, including NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, CIS Controls and HIPAA • Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Voluntary Life Insurance • 401(k) • Basic Life A&D • Short-term disability (STD) • Long-term disability (LTD) • PTO • Telehealth • Paid holidays • FSA • HSA • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Traveling Assistance • Up to two onsite travel visits