Senior Cybersecurity Architect – SME, Hands-on Design

Jobvite, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Job summary

ActioNet in Washington, DC offers a hybrid role for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect supporting a federal modernization program. You will own security architecture across enterprise solutions, bridging policy with implementable designs and risk decisions throughout the lifecycle.

This hands-on architecture role requires producing realizable security designs, reviews, and operations rather than only policy, with collaboration across solutions, data, cloud, network, identity,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including significant time in security architecture or enterprise technical leadership.
• Working knowledge of federal risk management, security controls, authorization, continuous monitoring, zero trust, identity, network, endpoint, cloud, application, data, and logging considerations.
• Ability to interpret security requirements and produce implementable designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions.
• Strong communication skills, with experience engaging engineers, architects, program managers, and Government decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity and 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 compliance, technical design, engineering, security, and phase-gate reviews.
• Evaluate proposed deviations and waivers, and provide risk-informed recommendations for approval.
• Maintain security architecture artifacts, review findings, decisions, and risks in approved repositories, with clear traceability.
• Coordinate with solution, data, cloud/platform, network, identity, endpoint/mobility, and operations stakeholders to embed security into design from the start.
• Identify design gaps, threats, vulnerabilities, technical debt, and noncompliance early in the lifecycle, and propose mitigation options.
• Apply federal risk management framework and security control knowledge to real design decisions.
• Support authorization evidence, implementation readiness, and post-deployment validation as needed.
• Produce implementable security designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions that engineers can act on.
• Communicate security architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and residual risk clearly to engineers, architects, program managers, and Government stakeholders.
• Support incident and problem learning to feed back into architecture improvements.

Job description

ActioNet in Washington, DC offers a hybrid role for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect supporting a federal modernization program. You will own security architecture across enterprise solutions, bridging policy with implementable designs and risk decisions throughout the lifecycle.

This hands-on architecture role requires producing realizable security designs, reviews, and operations rather than only policy, with collaboration across solutions, data, cloud, network, identity,