Security Architect
Precise Software Solutions, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Provides technical strategy and Marketplace security reference architectures, evaluates and enables enterprise security tools/services, designs reusable security patterns and guardrails, advises engineering teams, and drives integration of security requirements into delivery roadmaps.
- Develops and maintains Marketplace security reference architectures and implementation playbooks that engineering teams can apply consistently, reducing manual overhead (“build once ? reuse everywhere” as the broader team value proposition).
- Performs architecture reviews and technical design advisories that incorporate CMS ARS minimum controls and policy expectations into system designs.
- Coordinates with enterprise security service providers to consume and properly integrate shared security platforms (e.g., logging, scanning, identity) while respecting contract guardrails (no duplicate SOC/monitoring).
- Aligns security architecture work to Agile roadmaps and PI planning cycles, ensuring delivery teams have actionable guardrails and backlog-ready requirements.
- Guides Marketplace adoption of federal Zero Trust principles and architectures: NIST SP 800-207 defines Zero Trust Architecture components and transition steps; OMB M-22-09 sets federal agency Zero Trust expectations; and TIC 3.0 guidance supports modern network boundary/security approaches in federal environments.
- Supports cybersecurity risk reduction patterns such as Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM).
- Applies systems security engineering principles to architect defensible, survivable systems, consistent with NIST SP 800-160’s emphasis on engineering-driven security across system life cycles.
- Ensures forensic readiness and investigative support enablement by designing for audit logging, traceability, and evidence preservation needs described in the operational investigative approach.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or equivalent architecture experience
- Experience: 10–15+ years in security engineering/architecture; 5+ years designing security architectures in regulated federal environments with NIST control baselines and formal ATO constraints
- Demonstrated ability to translate policy and controls into implementable architecture patterns (defense-in-depth, least privilege) consistent with CMS ARS framing.
- Recommended Certifications: one senior security credential and/or cloud architecture credential demonstrating architecture competency (e.g., CISSP with architecture concentration, CCSP, cloud solutions architect), with hiring emphasis on demonstrated architecture artifacts and outcomes.
- Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: Ability to produce architecture artifacts that are consumable by delivery teams: reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and decision logs tied to policy and controls. Deep knowledge of NIST control ecosystem and how it constrains design: SP 800-53 controls, SP 800-53A assessment evidence expectations, and RMF lifecycle. Systems security engineering approach for building trustworthy secure systems across life cycles (NIST SP 800-160). Working knowledge of federal security programs relevant to the contract’s cybersecurity support scope (CDM, TIC 3.0, Zero Trust) and the ability to integrate them into a Marketplace roadmap
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
- Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Jury Duty leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Training and Development
- Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
- Employee Referral Program
- Annual Charity Donation Match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
security architecturesecurity engineeringarchitecture reviewsdesign patternsaudit loggingtraceabilityevidence preservationNIST SP 800-53NIST SP 800-160Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation
Soft Skills
technical strategyadvisory skillscoordinationguidancepolicy translationcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsactionable requirements
Certifications
CISSPCCSPcloud solutions architect