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