Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect
About The Position
We are standing up forward deployed engineering for our U.S. Federal business. This is a new, senior, high-visibility position - the first of its kind on our U.S. team - created to support a major federal civilian customer as our vetting and open-source investigative capabilities scale for National Security mission sets. This role is not a help desk function nor a back-office integration job. This position requires someone who understands government customers, can hold a technical conversation with engineers and a mission conversation with analysts, and can operate independently inside a customer environment while representing Maltego with credibility. This position is intentionally designed as a hybrid technical leadership role that bridges customer mission success, product evolution, and deployment execution. The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect serves as the primary technical interface between Maltego Federal, government stakeholders, and internal engineering teams, requiring a balanced focus across customer engagement, solution delivery, and strategic growth activities. In short, you are the bridge between a sophisticated government mission set and our engineering organization, and you will own the technical relationship as the account expands across the enterprise.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or above, currently in scope. TS/SCI preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered.
- 5+ years in solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, field systems engineering, or systems integration with a substantial portion supporting U.S. Government customers.
- Demonstrated experience as the technical face of a product or program inside a government customer site, including direct interaction with end users, program managers, and CIO/technical authorities.
- Strong Python development skills and practical API integration experience.
- Working knowledge of cloud hosting (AWS preferred), virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems.
- Understanding of secure system architecture, information assurance concepts, and deployment into regulated or accredited environments.
- Ability to run a technical workstream end-to-end - scoping, delivery, testing, deployment, and handover - with minimal supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between mission language and engineering language in both directions.
- Willingness to travel up to 40%, including to overseas posts.
Nice To Haves
- Prior service with or direct support to the U.S. Department of State, particularly the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, or the CIO/Diplomatic Technology organization.
- Familiarity with the Authority to Operate (ATO) process, RMF, FedRAMP, or equivalent accreditation pathways.
- Background in OSINT, SOCMINT, identity resolution, vetting, screening, or adjudication workflows.
- Experience with data acquisition strategy — evaluating and onboarding commercial and open data sources against cost, coverage, and mission fit.
- Exposure to machine learning classifier evaluation in an operational setting (precision/recall tuning, false positive management under limited PII).
- Experience as a Field Service Representative or equivalent embedded technical role.
- Familiarity with the Maltego platform or comparable link analysis and investigative tooling.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the embedded technical lead and trusted advisor to government analysts, program managers, and technical stakeholders.
- Lead requirements discovery sessions, workflow design workshops, and operational reviews.
- Guide analyst adoption and ensure mission outcomes are achieved through effective platform utilization.
- Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering, product, and deployment priorities.
- Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships across customer organizations.
- Design and implement end-to-end integration architectures connecting Maltego into customer systems, enclaves, and third-party technologies.
- Develop and guide custom transforms, automations, and integrations.
- Support data-source onboarding, identity resolution workflows, and automated discovery processes.
- Deliver scalable technical solutions that extend platform capabilities within customer environments.
- Support deployment activities across SaaS, government-hosted, and classified environments.
- Contribute technical artifacts and documentation supporting ATO and accreditation efforts.
- Validate solution performance, security controls, and operational readiness.
- Support pilot deployments, initial operating capability, and enterprise rollout activities.
- Evaluate AI classifier performance, detection accuracy, precision/recall trade-offs, and analyst review workflows.
- Measure operational outcomes and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
- Convert customer feedback into prioritized, evidence-based requirements for engineering and product teams.
- Act as a conduit between customer users, product management, and engineering.
- Support technical solutioning, demonstrations, and responses to government requirements.
- Identify opportunities for account expansion and increased mission impact.
- Contribute to the development of forward-deployed engineering methodologies, playbooks, and best practices.
- Help establish the foundation for a scalable Federal Forward Deployed Engineering organization as the business grows.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- comprehensive health coverage
- 401(k)
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
