Solutions Architect

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution.  Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize of the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services.  Nightwing is seeking a Solutions Architect to support this critical customer mission 

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 impacts 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 define 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 

Required Skills/Clearances: 

- 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 cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures 

- 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 

Desired Skills: 

- 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. 

Required Education: 

BS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree; Masters degree preferred. 
  
Desired Certifications: 

- DoD 8140 IAT Level III 

- Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) 

- SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC) 

Syndeo: ESS-3423