Cyber Data Platform Architect

About the role

For an organization to transform in today’s digital world, it needs to properly collect, store, and organize its data. Effective data management can enable more efficient operations, yielding more growth. As a data architect, you know how to apply your creative thinking and analytical mindset to help organizations manage their data assets. We’re looking for a data architect like you to solve complex challenges and deliver leading-edge solutions.

As a data architect on our team, you’ll use your extensive technical expertise to lead the design of data architecture solutions for cloud computing, managed services, and service-oriented architectures. You’ll resolve routine data architecture-related issues in collaboration with business analysts and technology teams, working with project staff to make decisions and recommendations on future data architecture development, and analyzing data architecture-related business needs. With your motivation to establish processes and facilitate technological innovation, you’ll make a lasting impact on our data architectures and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of data architecture solutions for cloud computing, managed services, and service-oriented architectures.
• Resolve routine data architecture-related issues in collaboration with business analysts and technology teams.
• Work with project staff to make decisions and recommendations on future data architecture development.
• Analyze data architecture-related business needs.
• Establish processes and facilitate technological innovation in data architectures and solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in defensive cyber operations, cybersecurity engineering, or security platform architecture.
• 5+ years of experience designing security data pipeline architectures such as log collection, normalization, enrichment, and routing.
• 3+ years of experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel, and Google Chronicle, and stream processing and data brokering tools such as Cribl, Apache Kafka, Logstash, and Fluentd.
• Experience architecting detection engineering pipelines, threat hunting workflows, and automated response capabilities.
• Experience deploying platforms across cloud, on-premises, and disconnected environments using orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and RedHat OpenShift.
• Experience operating in classified or compartmented environments with strict access controls.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust, DoD or IC cybersecurity frameworks, and federal compliance standards.
• TS/SCI clearance.
• HS diploma or GED.

Nice If You Have

• Experience with IC-specific authorization process such as ICD 503 or CNSSI 1253.
• Experience with cyber threat intelligence platforms, including STIX/TAXII integration.
• Experience with data lake and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Apache Iceberg, and Snowflake, and integrating EDR, NDR, and full-packet capture solutions, including CrowdStrike, Corelight, and Trellix.
• Experience with threat detection or anomaly-based behavioral analysis.
• Experience with SOAR platforms such as Swimlane, XSOAR, or Phantom.
• Experience with DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines in IL5 or IL6 environments.
• Experience with Python or scripting languages for security automation.

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.