System Engineer IV

DigiFlight•Columbia, MD

About The Position

This role focuses on leading the end-to-end mapping of new technology identification, requirements development, and workflows across CISA Threat Hunt. The successful candidate will identify and document inputs, outputs, and dependencies for each phase of new technology insertion, developing visual diagrams to illustrate impacts and facilitating workshops with stakeholders to validate workflows and uncover cross-functional impacts. The position requires delivering actionable visuals and documentation to support strategic planning, compliance, and operational readiness, including documenting current and defining future-state workflows and processes, mapping dependencies, and analyzing impacts on each subdivision/branch. The role also involves identifying gaps and recommending process/system changes, and delivering final visuals and documentation to leadership.

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship
Active TS/SCI clearance
Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) Suitability
10+ years of direct relevant experience in systems engineering and architecture development
Knowledge in various IT fields that include but are not limited to systems and networking engineering, technical analytics, threat hunt incident response/ hunt deployment tools, cloud technologies, and databases.
Experience with and technical understanding of cyber-security attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architecture
Experience with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools
Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
Must be able to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations.
Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
Agile Systems Engineering and/or development experience
DevSecOps or DevOps experience

Nice To Haves

Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF)
Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe)
Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred)
Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)
DHS experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end mapping of new technology identification, requirements development, and workflows across all CISA Threat Hunt
Identify and document inputs, outputs, and dependencies for each phase of new technology insertion.
Developing visual diagrams (process flows, swimlanes, dependency maps) to illustrate how proposed changes impact each section/branch
Facilitating workshops with stakeholders to validate workflows and uncover cross-functional impacts
Delivering actionable visuals and documentation to support strategic planning, compliance, and operational readiness
Documenting current and defining future -State Workflows and Processes
Identifying inputs, outputs, and key activities for each phase
Mapping dependencies between initiatives, systems, and teams
Develop end-to-end workflow diagrams
Creating swimlane diagrams to show roles and handoffs
Validating diagrams and maps with stakeholders
Analyzing impact on each subdivision/branch
Identifying gaps and recommending process/system changes
Delivering final visuals and documentation to leadership