Enterprise Security Architecture Lead

Northrop Grumman; New York (NY); Remote; USD 161,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

9/80 work schedule

401k matching

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Computer Systems Architect to serve as the Security Architecture Lead, guiding enterprise security architecture across Strategy and Architecture within the Chief Information & Digital Office. The role requires building guardrails, coordinating risk-informed decisions, and mentoring teams to embed security into design choices.

The position supports a virtual telecommuter arrangement, with onsite meetings within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years, or advanced degrees with more experience.
• Ability to obtain, and maintain, a U.S. Government Secret level security clearance.
• Experience in security architecture, cyber architecture, enterprise security engineering, or risk-informed architecture leadership.
• Strong understanding of secure system design, enterprise risk, architectural trade-offs, and how security requirements affect applications, platforms, integrations, and data flows.
• Experience influencing security-related architecture decisions across multiple teams, organizations, or technical domains.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise security architecture principles, reference patterns, and architectural guardrails.
• Guide architecture decisions involving identity and access, trust boundaries, segmentation, secure integration, data protection, and security-enabling technical controls.
• Partner with business, application, data, technology, cyber, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders to evaluate architectural trade-offs and improve security alignment across domains.
• Identify security-related architectural debt, duplication, policy conflicts, control gaps, and modernization risks across the enterprise architecture landscape.
• Participate in architecture reviews, standards governance, and decision forums involving significant platform, integration, application, and information architecture initiatives.
• Develop recommendations that improve enterprise security posture while still enabling practical delivery, modernization, and operational effectiveness.
• Mentor architects and technical leaders on how to embed security into enterprise, capability, solution, and system architecture decisions.
• Support executive-facing architecture communication and leadership visibility into enterprise security architecture risks, standards decisions, and modernization implications.

Skills

Security architecture

Enterprise security engineering

Threat modeling

Risk management

Zero Trust

Security standards

Architecture governance

Stakeholder collaboration

TOGAF

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Computer Systems Architect to serve as the Security Architecture Lead, guiding enterprise security architecture across Strategy and Architecture within the Chief Information & Digital Office. The role requires building guardrails, coordinating risk-informed decisions, and mentoring teams to embed security into design choices.

The position supports a virtual telecommuter arrangement, with onsite meetings within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location.