Specialist

Ampcus Inc.•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly motivated candidate to join their talented team as an Enterprise Architect Specialist. This role operates in an environment with statewide mission impact and executive visibility, requiring integration across heterogeneous IT, OT, and security environments. The position involves time-critical decision-making with limited tolerance for architectural error, directly influencing cybersecurity posture, resilience, and operational readiness. The scope exceeds standard Enterprise Architect roles, encompassing statewide, multi-domain architecture responsibility across cybersecurity platforms, security telemetry, network visibility and detection, hybrid infrastructure, integration patterns, and resilience architecture. The architect will make and document high-consequence architecture decisions affecting detection coverage, evidentiary integrity, operational continuity, and recovery capabilities. The role also involves advanced architecture governance leadership, establishing mechanisms that balance speed and rigor, resolving cross-organizational conflicts, adjudicating risk tradeoffs, and preventing architectural debt. Deep technical breadth with hands-on expectations is required, including expert-level understanding across security telemetry pipelines, SIEM platforms, network detection architectures, cloud and virtualization platforms, and automation and integration tooling. The architect must be capable of both strategic design and practical validation with engineering teams. Furthermore, the role directly supports high-value procurements and vendor evaluations, including requirements shaping, technical evaluation input, and architectural risk assessment.

Requirements

15 years Required: Enterprise Architecture (large, complex environments).
12 years Required: IT Infrastructure Architecture (on-prem and hybrid).
10 years Required: Cybersecurity Architecture (defensive, enterprise).
10 years Required: Technical Design Documentation and Decision Artifacts.
8 years Required: Architecture Governance / Review Boards.

Nice To Haves

10 years Preferred: Executive technical communication and briefing.
8 years Preferred: Security telemetry and SIEM architecture.
8 years Preferred: Cloud and virtualization platforms (hybrid).
7 years Preferred: Network visibility and detection architecture.
7 years Preferred: NIST-aligned risk management and security frameworks.

Responsibilities

Operate in an environment characterized by statewide mission impact and executive visibility.
Integrate across heterogeneous IT, OT, and security environments.
Make time-critical decisions with limited tolerance for architectural error.
Directly influence cybersecurity posture, resilience, and operational readiness.
Span cybersecurity platforms, security telemetry, network visibility and detection, hybrid infrastructure, integration patterns, and resilience architecture across multiple participating entities.
Make and document architecture decisions that affect detection coverage, evidentiary integrity, operational continuity, and recovery capabilities.
Establish and operate architecture governance mechanisms that balance speed and rigor.
Resolve cross-organizational conflicts.
Adjudicate risk tradeoffs.
Prevent architectural debt in a rapidly evolving environment.
Provide expert-level understanding across security telemetry pipelines, SIEM platforms, network detection architectures, cloud and virtualization platforms, and automation and integration tooling.
Perform both strategic design and practical validation with engineering teams.
Support high-value procurements and vendor evaluations.
Shape requirements for procurements.
Provide technical evaluation input for procurements.
Perform architectural risk assessment for procurements.