Senior Cybersecurity Architect & Design Lead (Hybrid)

Ignite IT, LLC; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Referral program

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Job summary

Ignite IT, LLC seeks a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to own security architecture across enterprise solutions, networks, cloud, data, and endpoints within a large federal modernization program. This hands-on role requires producing implementable designs and leading reviews, guiding implementation and operations in a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC.

U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of cybersecurity experience, including significant time in security architecture or enterprise technical leadership.
• Ability to interpret security requirements and translate them into implementable designs and risk decisions.
• Strong communication skills with engineers, architects, PMs, and Government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity/segmentation design.
• Design logging, resilience, and operational safeguards into solution architecture.
• Translate federal security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements.
• Participate in architecture compliance, technical design, engineering, security, and phase-gate reviews.
• Evaluate deviations/waivers and provide risk-informed recommendations.
• Maintain security architecture artifacts with traceability in approved repositories.
• Coordinate with cross-domain stakeholders to embed security from the start.
• Identify design gaps, threats, vulnerabilities, and noncompliance; propose mitigations.

Skills

Security architecture

Cybersecurity leadership

Communication

Government/stakeholder engagement

U.S. citizenship

Tools

Sparx/Prolaborate

Job description

Ignite IT, LLC seeks a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to own security architecture across enterprise solutions, networks, cloud, data, and endpoints within a large federal modernization program. This hands-on role requires producing implementable designs and leading reviews, guiding implementation and operations in a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC.

U.S. citizenship is required.