Security / Compliance Architect

NATIONMIND LLC; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 276,000; Part time

Job summary

NationMind LLC is seeking a Security / Compliance Architect to lead the definitional boundary for controlled data and CUI, shaping a secure enclave design for a regulated collaboration environment. This client-facing role requires experience in data protection, compliance-aligned architecture, and governance controls.

You will translate business requirements into precise security decisions, drive DLP strategy across collaboration channels, and deliver artifacts for executive briefings while

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity architecture roles.
• Experience with Data Loss Prevention, data classification, and secure collaboration.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview / MIP / DLP.
• Ability to operationalize controls for sensitive or regulated data.
• Strong understanding of secure data boundaries and access control.
• Experience in regulated environments and executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Define the controlled data / CUI boundary and data handling paths.
• Translate requirements into a target-state security architecture for a secure enclave.
• Define DLP and information protection strategy across collaboration, email, endpoint, and removable media.
• Establish control intent for classification, labeling, monitoring, restrictions, and audit evidence.
• Drive alignment between business requirements and security control design.
• Produce client-facing security design artifacts and decision packs.
• Support design reviews, steering discussions, and executive readouts.
• Coordinate with platform teams to align Microsoft control implementation with security intent.
• Oversee pilot validation and ensure audit defensibility and deploy handover.

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Security consulting

Security engineering

Data Loss Prevention

Information protection

Secure collaboration

Microsoft Purview

Job description

About NationMind LLC: NationMind LLC is a technology consulting firm focused on software development and QA testing services. We help clients build reliable, scalable applications with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, and quality. Our team works across industries, delivering solutions that drive innovation and operational efficiency. We are currently hiring skilled professionals for Security / Compliance Architect to join our growing team.

Position:

Security / Compliance Architect – DLP, CUI Boundary, and Secure Enclave

Location

remote

3 months Contract

Role Summary

The Security / Compliance Architect is the primary security design authority for the engagement. This role is responsible for defining the controlled data boundary, translating compliance and business requirements into enforceable controls, shaping the secure enclave design, and ensuring the overall solution is defensible from a governance, audit, and risk-management standpoint.

This is a client-facing onshore role requiring strong experience in data protection, compliance-aligned architecture, information protection controls, and regulated collaboration environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the definition of the controlled data / CUI boundary, including in-scope users, repositories, workflows, endpoints, and approved handling paths.
• Translate customer requirements into a target-state security architecture for a secure collaboration enclave.
• Define the DLP and information protection strategy across collaboration, email, endpoint, and removable media channels.
• Establish the control intent for classification, labeling, monitoring, restriction, blocking, exception handling, and audit evidence generation.
• Drive alignment between business process requirements and security control design to ensure the solution is usable as well as compliant.
• Lead design decisions related to:
  
  • approved vs non-approved storage locations
  • secure collaboration patterns
  • external sharing restrictions
  • exception governance
  • evidence and logging requirements
• Review current-state data handling patterns and identify exposure points, control gaps, and architectural risks.
• Produce client-facing security design artifacts, including boundary definitions, control strategies, architecture requirements, and decision packs.
• Support design reviews, steering discussions, and executive readouts.
• Work closely with the platform lead to ensure Microsoft control implementation aligns with security intent.
• Support pilot validation by reviewing policy effectiveness, exception scenarios, usability impacts, and audit defensibility.
• Provide oversight during deployment and handover to ensure the final state aligns with the approved security design.

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years in cybersecurity architecture, security consulting, or security engineering roles.
• Strong experience in one or more of the following:
  
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Information Protection / Data Classification
  • Secure collaboration architecture
  • Microsoft Purview / MIP / DLP
  • Compliance-driven security design
• Experience defining and operationalizing controls for sensitive or regulated data.
• Strong understanding of:
  
  • secure data boundaries
  • access control and least privilege concepts
  • audit evidence requirements
  • policy exception governance
  • endpoint, email, and collaboration security controls
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders, security leadership, and platform teams in regulated environments.
• Strong workshop facilitation, requirements analysis, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to convert ambiguous customer requirements into precise security architecture decisions.

This is a remote position.