- Location
- Chantilly, VA
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Visa
- Not sponsored
- Source
- Paylocity
Description
Description
POSITION: ICAM Architect
WORK LOCATION: Chantilly, VA
JOB CATEGORY: Information Technology
JOB TYPE: Full-Time
REQUISITION ID: EM07-56
CITIZENSHIP: United States Citizen
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret/SCI
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Up to 10%
E&M Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. E&M provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
E&M Technologies, Inc. is currently seeking an ICAM Architect to join our team in Chantilly, VA in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, intelligence professionals, and first responders.
Job Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the enterprise ICAM architecture across PEP/PIP/EMS and RPMS modernization, ensuring alignment with NGA’s ZT and ICAM strategic framework. Transition from the legacy PDP to JBlocks.
- Develop end to end architectural patterns for identity, attribute services, authorization flows, policy distribution, and resource/role lifecycle management.
- Partner closely with the Technical Lead to validate modernization roadmaps, architectural decisions, and integration strategies for on-prem and cloud-native, microservices-based ICAM components.
- Translate mission needs into technical requirements, sequence diagrams, data models, interface specifications, and system architecture artifacts.
- Oversee the design of modern PEP/PIP interfaces that support attribute-based access control, dynamic policy evaluation, and event-driven decision making.
- Architect improved EMS and RPMS capabilities including resource registration, policy lifecycle automation, attribute orchestration, and enterprise authorization services.
- Provide architectural guidance to Development and Operations (DevOps) and Software teams to ensure solutions meet scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability requirements.
- Conduct architectural reviews, risk assessments, and compliance verification for modernization milestones and incremental releases.
- Ensure modernization reduces operational overhead through automation, standardization, improved observability, and optimized deployment pipelines.
- Identify opportunities for innovation in identity services, authentication technologies, authorization models, and system integration patterns.
- Serve as a senior advisor to program management, providing technical insight to support planning, budgeting, and customer engagement.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field and 10+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience as a solutions architect, systems architect, or enterprise architect supporting complex modernization, security, or ICAM programs.
- Significant experience designing distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
- Experience leading or supporting teams engaged in ICAM modernization, enterprise identity technology, or authorization/policy services.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience contributing to Program Increment (PI) planning, architectural runway development, and iterative delivery.
- Ability to define architectural goals, strategic plans, and detailed implementation guidance aligned with mission priorities.
- Ability to obtain Security+ within 90 days of hire.
- All candidates must be US CITIZENS to be considered for the position.
- Must have and be capable of maintaining a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance at the required level and ability to pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with modern programming languages and integration (Java and/or Python).
- Knowledge of GitOps tools for managing modern environments.
- Certifications in enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Expertise with identity and authorization standards (X.509, SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, LDAP).
- Experience architecting ICAM solutions using Oracle or other enterprise-grade identity platforms.
- Experience defining ABAC/RBAC models, policy-as-code, and ZT-aligned access patterns.
- Prior experience supporting NGA or Intelligence Community authorization/identity systems.
To Apply for this Position:
You must have the Minimum Qualifications in your resume to be selected as a candidate.
The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. E&M considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
E&M anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require E&M to shorten or extend the application window.
E&M is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. E&M provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
As part of the federal government’s transition to the Trusted Workforce 2.0 Continuous Vetting framework, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is expanding enrollment in the FBI Rap Back program for cleared industry personnel beginning April 1, 2026.
Rap Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) is a service provided by the FBI that allows authorized agencies to receive notifications if there are updates to an individual’s criminal history record while they hold a security clearance. This supports continuous vetting of cleared personnel.
Per DCSA guidance, we are required to provide the following FBI privacy advisements to all cleared employees:
• FBI Privacy Act Notice
• Noncriminal Justice Applicant’s Privacy Rights
