Senior Cybersecurity Architect - Hands-On, Federal RMF

Ignite IT; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; 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 is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to lead security architecture across enterprise solutions for a large federal modernization program. This hands-on role delivers implementable designs through review, implementation, and operations, not just policy setting.

Based in Washington, DC, this hybrid position requires U.S. citizenship and close collaboration with solution, data, cloud, network, and operations teams to embed security from the start.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in cybersecurity with security architecture leadership.
• Knowledge of federal RMF, controls, authorization, monitoring, zero trust, identity, network, cloud, data, and logging considerations.
• Ability to translate security requirements into implementable designs, reviews, mitigations, and risk decisions.
• Strong communication with engineers, architects, PMs, and government decision-makers.
• U.S. citizenship required.

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 and agency security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements.
• Participate in architecture reviews, governance, and risk-informed recommendations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to embed security into design from the start.
• Produce implementable security designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions.
• Communicate security decisions and residual risk clearly to engineers and Government stakeholders.
• Support incident and learning feedback into architecture improvements.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security architecture

Federal RMF

Communication

Identity & access

Zero Trust

Cloud security

Documentation

Job description

Ignite IT is seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to lead security architecture across enterprise solutions for a large federal modernization program. This hands-on role delivers implementable designs through review, implementation, and operations, not just policy setting.

Based in Washington, DC, this hybrid position requires U.S. citizenship and close collaboration with solution, data, cloud, network, and operations teams to embed security from the start.