Enterprise Architect - Advanced

Rividium•Springfield, VA

About The Position

RiVidium Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect to develop and maintain business, systems, and information processes that support enterprise mission needs. The role develops IT rules and requirements describing baseline and target architectures, and helps ensure systems and architecture align with organizational cybersecurity guidelines. The Enterprise Architect analyzes user needs, plans and develops enterprise architectures and system components, translates proposed capabilities into technical requirements, and documents architecture activities and the effects of new systems or interfaces on current and target environments, including security posture. The role also addresses system resilience, recovery, and continuity requirements, evaluates security architectures, and contributes to Risk Management Framework activities and documentation. The position requires a bachelor's degree or higher, at least one listed certification, and a Top Secret SCI clearance. RiVidium Inc. lists an annual salary range of $180,000–$190,000; actual compensation depends on the position's scope and responsibilities and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and market conditions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university.
Hold at least one of the following certifications: IAT Level III, CASP, CISA, or CISSP.
Top Secret SCI clearance.
Skill in applying and incorporating information technologies into proposed solutions.
Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
Skill in determining how security systems should work, including resilience and dependability, and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment affect outcomes.
Skill in design modeling and building use cases, such as with Unified Modeling Language.
Skill in writing code in a currently supported programming language, such as Java or C++.
Skill in the use of design methods.
Skill in applying cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements, including confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
Skill in identifying cybersecurity and privacy issues arising from connections with internal and external customers and partner organizations.

Nice To Haves

A degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or Engineering is preferred.

Responsibilities

Define appropriate system availability levels based on critical functions and ensure requirements address disaster recovery, continuity of operations, failover or alternate sites, backups, and recovery/restoration supportability.
Employ secure configuration management processes.
Ensure acquired or developed systems and architectures conform to organizational cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
Identify and prioritize critical business functions with organizational stakeholders.
Advise on project costs, design concepts, and design changes.
Contribute to Risk Management Framework activities and related documentation, including life-cycle support plans, concepts of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials.
Analyze candidate architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms.
Develop a system security context and preliminary security CONOPS, and define baseline security requirements in accordance with applicable cybersecurity requirements.
Evaluate security architectures and designs for adequacy against acquisition-document requirements.
Write detailed functional specifications documenting the architecture development process.
Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
Capture and integrate capabilities and business functions needed for partial or full system restoration after catastrophic failure.
Develop enterprise architecture or system components to meet user needs.
Document and update definition and architecture activities.
Integrate findings related to security architecture gaps.
Plan implementation strategies so enterprise components can be integrated and aligned.
Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
Document how a new system or system interface affects current and target environments, including security posture.
Integrate key management functions related to cyberspace.